Ma and Pa Bollo are proper Manc but Pa joined the RAF, which explains why I was the only City supporter in my north London school when we lost the FA Cup to Tottenham. Great. Just great. I went to both matches as well.
I used to tear out pictures of footballers and teams from the Charles Buchan Football Mionthly.Typhoo tea also did large pictues of teams and players.But what i did like,was the cardboard league tables which looked like ladders.That is a long long time ago.
[QUOTE 4200984, member: 259"]A Tarkus one (I didn't even like Emerson Lake and Palmer) and some
l had to share my room with my big brother, so we had a massive Yes poster and a massive Genesis one (Selling England by the Pound). I had a Northern Soul one but he drew a willy on it![/QUOTE]
In some sort of chronological order:
A Weetabix(?) illustration of the solar system
Something from the Apollo moonshot.
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda from Easy Rider
Some original artwork from a motorbike magazine - a cutaway drawing of an Ariel
The CND poster of the Haywain with Cruise Missiles added by Peter Kennard
Harold Lloyd hanging off a clock face
I had a couple of other posters but this is the one that sticks in my mind. Possibly because it was such a rebellious stand against my devoutly Christian parents. Used to love browsing the wares at Athena just on the corner of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester whenever I got the chance to get the bus into town. The selection at our local Woolworths just wasn't a match for the Athena range. It makes me feel really old saying this
In a similar vein I had the Escape poster but didn't realise it was album art as I'd never heard of Yes or Roger Dean - it just caught my eye in a shop display.
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