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Nearly Sane

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Happy 60th birthday, Coronation Street
« on: December 07, 2020, 10:47:40 AM »
Haven't watched it in years but the theme tune, as Neil Brand covered The Sound of TV, is so evocative.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-55194437
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Re: Happy 60th birthday, Coronation Street
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2020, 10:49:45 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on December 07, 2020, 10:47:40 AM
Haven't watched it in years but the theme tune, as Neil Brand covered The Sound of TV, is so evocative.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-55194437

I also stopped watching regularly a decade ago. It's an achievement, but it isn't the great programme it was even 20 years ago. The music as you note is evocative and thankfully unchanged.
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Re: Happy 60th birthday, Coronation Street
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2020, 11:00:22 AM »
I've never watched it regularly, but happy 60th, all the same. The UK can boast the world's oldest soap (the Archers, which I listened to unwillingly in the 80s, because my late wife was a fan), the world's oldest TV soap (Coronation Street), and the world's oldest children's programme (Blue Peter). Joke: 'Neighbours' is alternatively known as 'Cobber Nation Street'.
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Re: Happy 60th birthday, Coronation Street
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2020, 11:37:45 AM »
I remember watching the programme from the start, with my Grandmother who was a Lancashire lass. I used to tease her that she was like Ena Sharples without the hairnet. ;D I last watched that soap in the early 90s.
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Re: Happy 60th birthday, Coronation Street
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2020, 06:32:31 PM »
I watch it when I can & like it, been alternately suspenseful and heartbreaking recently. Some things coming to a climax this week & we all like one of those occasionally. 8)
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Re: Happy 60th birthday, Coronation Street
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2020, 06:37:20 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on December 07, 2020, 06:32:31 PM
I watch it when I can & like it, been alternately suspenseful and heartbreaking recently. Some things coming to a climax this week & we all like one of those occasionally. 8)

Julian Clary as I live and breath  ;D
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