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Everyone loves a good film.
And did March 1987 provide us with any?
I can neither confirm nor deny that but I can announce it was a month that saw the release of such fare as Lethal Weapon, Evil Dead II, Raising Arizona and Withnail and I.
Of those, I shall declare Evil Dead II to be my favourite, even though I recall little of it, other than that it's a horror film. And to be honest, it being a horror film is good enough for me.
But what was occurring beyond the cinemas of the world?
But what was occurring beyond the cinemas of the world?
It was a month which saw the first Starbucks outside of the USA open and it was in Vancouver.
A franchise looking to break soil even further afield was Disneyland. The seeds for that were sown when Disney CEO Michael Eisner and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac signed an agreement to construct a near-5,000 acre Euro Disney Resort in the Val d'Europe area of Paris.
A franchise looking to break soil even further afield was Disneyland. The seeds for that were sown when Disney CEO Michael Eisner and French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac signed an agreement to construct a near-5,000 acre Euro Disney Resort in the Val d'Europe area of Paris.
When it came to the UK singles chart, March launched with Ben E King's Stand By Me at Number One before that was deposed by Boy George's Everything I Own which itself had to then make way for Ferry Aid's Let It Be charity single.
On the accompanying album chart, The Phantom of the Opera Original Cast Recording greeted the new month in top spot before making way for The Very Best of Hot Chocolate which then succumbed to U2's The Joshua Tree which was then forced to subside before the might of Now That's What I Call Music! 9.
But what of the galaxy's greatest comic?
It was still feeding us a diet of Bad Company, Strontium Dog, Judge Dredd, The Dead and Tharg's Future-Shocks.
However, Prog 513 also presented us with Star Traks, Spitting Images and Classic Covers of 1977, while Prog 514 provided us with Classic Covers of 1978.
However, Prog 513 also presented us with Star Traks, Spitting Images and Classic Covers of 1977, while Prog 514 provided us with Classic Covers of 1978.
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I went to see Evil Dead 2 in early summer 1987 when it finally came to the provinces. I went to see it with my Mum, and we laughed ourselves silly.
But it was also one of those odd moments throughout that year where it was revealed to me that other people liked the things I did.
I went to a high school where everyone was off in their little cliques, and those of us who liked unusual things kept to ourselves because liking interesting things was gay. So when I went to see Evil Dead 2 immediately after leaving school, I was stunned that so many of my schoolmates were also in the cinema. It was the same when I found out at 6th Form that lots of other people also liked the bands I liked. Unthinkable in today's world, I guess.
I really like the Dredd logo cover - redolent of very early 2000AD covers with that white background - and the Bad Company one, too.
The Dillon Strontium Dog one perfectly illustrates why I don't really rate Dillon - it looks like really good pencils that haven't been inked. The anatomy and expressions are great, but why isn't it finished off?
The colouring on his Dredd one makes it look a bit like a Can Kennedy.
BTW - what do people here think of Cam Kennedy's work? I am on the fence. I used to dislike it back then, then I kind of grudgingly admired the rough-hewn nature of it. Now I quite like it but not enough for it to sway me parting with money.
I bought The Very Best Of Hot Chocolate and no doubt about it the best song was No Doubt About It in which Errol Brown has a close encounter of the third kind!
What was this creature that appeared before my eyes?
Was it good?
Was it evil?
On this ship from other skies...
Colin, I'm torn between Every 1's a Winner, Brother Louie and Emma when it comes to favourite Hot Chocolate singles.
Matthew, I must confess I was never a fan of Cam Kennedy's work. It always looked a bit too extreme for me.
Killdumpster
It's been awhile, but I've been extremely busy.
Steve, I'll never forget the first time I saw EVIL DEAD II. My pals & I got a quarter keg of Genisee Creme Ale, and had a party.
EVIL DEAD II & Andy Warhole's DRACULA were rented from the video store that was next door to the beer distributor.
Boy, I was so glad the party wasn't at my house.
7 or 8 of the girls, and a couple guys, PUKED THEIR GUTS OUT!!
Hope all you brother's are well.
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Good to know your still around and keeping out of trouble, Kd. Or at least getting away with it.
Matthew, I always liked Cam Kennedy's work, although I underestimated how zarjaz it actually was until he drew The Light & Darkness War for Marvel's Epic imprint. Probably because before that I thought of him as one of those old pros - I think he had a history in war comics - who got work in the progs, alternating on The VCs with Gary Leach, then basing his Dredd on Mike McMahon's.
Comparisons with those two - Leach and McMahon - were unlikely to ever be favourable for a new art droid. But when you think about it, once McMahon and Bolland stopped working on Dredd (after 'Block Wars') which regular artist did the best version during the rest of 2000AD's first ten years?
Obviously theres one-off highlights - like the Kev O'Neill story that came up here recently, and Gary Leach in prog #513 this month - but unless you count the relatively infrequent Brendan McCarthy, I'd say it was Kennedy.
-sean
Good lord! KILLDUMPSTER???
It’s been 2-3 years???
They put you in witness protection or something? LOL
CH-47
Steve, the record of the month in March '87 was obviously the new album by Prince, 'Sign ☮️ the Times'. Its impressive by any standards, but especially when you consider that it was a double and he recorded it almost completely on his own.
I'm a bit ambivalent about the title track though. Great music, but 'my cousin tried reefer for the very first time/now he's doing horse'...? Seriously?
That has to be the corniest lyric of the decade. Possibly even of the last quarter of the 20th century...
-sean
SEAN - CH was a big PRINCE fan. Got to see him in 86 or 87 in Stuttgart. His KISS was on constant replay in the dance clubs at that time.
But that lyric… it specifically resonated with me. I never found it corny in the least and I enjoyed belting it out. But it’s all just a matter of opinion.
Well Charlie, the whole 'gateway' theory strikes me as questionable.
But putting that to one side - it is after all, as you say, just an opinion - I could never understand why someone would be using the terms 'reefer' and 'horse' in the 1980s. Its almost as if they're deliberately trying to signal that what they're saying shouldn't be taken seriously...
But that doesn't seem to be the case. I find it quite puzzling.
-sean
Yes, SOTT gets my vote as well.
I remember being mildly disappointed with it at first because it wasn’t as florid as Parade (which was the album that truly made me a Prince fan).
But that faded away after a couple of weeks, and I played that C90 to death over the summer of 87.*
*Limited funds and the standard 80s record collection sharing practices meant I didn’t own my own copy until 1992.
It's nice to know you're still with us, KD.
Did someone mention Hot Chocolate?
Given my taste in music it will probably come as a shock to everyone when I say that Every 1s A Winner has my favourite guitar lick of all time.
Admittedly Charlie had no knowledge of drug lingo in the mid-80s; he had smoked his last reefer in 1978 when the word was in common usage . And never had Charles tried horse lol. But the use of those two words by PRINCE in SOTT, 7 years later, did not seem dated at all. Nor did the notion of reefer being a gateway to horse. I mean, when I looked at various high school pals they certainly were on the booze, alcohol, lsd… trajectory.
I miss Prince and Michael Jacko Jackson. There is still a big grudge in Gary Indiana to this day the Jackos have basically never returned to Gary to celebrate their roots.
Sounds like you should check out the 'Skyway Soul' compilation that came out a couple of years ago, Charlie - a double lp of tunes recorded in Gary Indiana 'during the prosperous gap between the departure of the Jackson 5 to Motown and the collapse of US Steel' (according to the hype sticker).
Quite a time capsule...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSoNzkQUb4
-sean
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