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Depends how you define “Lad” remember this was over 40 years ago, and when I was a lad “Lad” was synonymous with “Schoolboy” and once you had started work / had your first pint / had your first shag you were no longer a lad. I started work at 16 and did the other two before I started work. So lad being 16 tops, apply the half the age plus six rule (16/2)+6 = 14 which just so happen to be Annabelle’’s age and it doesn’t suggest inappropriateness in my mind. Anyway I was more sophisticated and preferred to spend palm Sunday with Kate Bush haha.

Ring any Bells? It’s an iconic album cover form the 70’s I often wondered why Houses of the Holy sold well in New Zealand

It was based on Arthur C Clarke’s Childhoods End but the shot was done for the album by Hypnosis. So 7-9 year old kids is acceptable, how about 11 year old Mariora Goschen on the Blind Faith album? Whilst I am no lawyer, I am pretty certain that Child Pornography laws applied to all children under 5e age of consent and not just ones over the age of 13 . Either the laws apply in every case, or not at all, and since Scotland Yard decided not to proceed with any prosecution it appears that no actual laws were broken.

Lwin’s Mother forced Scotland Yard to investigate, Scotland Yard found nothing wrong / no laws broken. If anything the controversy increased album sales. if that was considered as child pornography, what about prior releases such as Blind Faith by Blind faith, or Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin , or subsequent such as Nevermind by Nirvana All contained naked underaged children, but no, go after Malcolm McLaren the nasty man who gave us the Sex Pistols

Only in Prudish America, in Europe it didn’t bat an eyelid since it was based on a painting called “Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe” (Luncheon by the Lake) by Edouard Manet. But then again America goes batshit crazy when there is an accidental nipple flash during a half time superbowl show

But will it? Israel “Had” to strike back, but thy chose strategic targets, rather than go for population they struck here Iran Nuclear research centre is, sort of “We know what you are up to” I don’t think Iran will strike back agains Israel, they will I’ll blame those “Capitalist Pigs Americans” for supporting the “Yahud” and strike a base in Iraq in retaliation. They know Israel has their number, so to speak, so will do something symbolic to appease the masses. As for Russia, they are now into the 27th Month of an offensive that Putin said would take 10 days. If they are having such a problem against a rag tag army led by a comedian what chance do they have with the West? China has to do nothing, the US is already $850 Billion in debt to China and receives 18% of its imports from their, the US is a superpower in name only, and they know it. As for little missiles man firing off into the Pacific, let him carry on, the more missiles he wastes the less he has

Ahh Annabelle Lwin aka Myant Myant aye, only half Burmese, her mother is English. Many a lad celebrated Palm Sunday with Annabelle I have found out now that what American called New Wave is not what the UK did. In the UK new wave was and extension of late 70ls Punk until the early 80’s to be replaced by the smartly dressed Nancy boys with their coiffured hair know as the New Romantics. America didn’t get the memo and caught on in the early 80’s and labeled every synth pop tune as new wave and not New Romantic, typical yanks late to the party and get it all wrong. New Wave Music ,

I never said that is was Blondie were mentioned in the IMDB write up. I chose Blondie as an example, you know a particular instance of something that is representative of a group, or an illustration of something that's been generally described, rather than go through each band individually.

Parallel Lines (1978) broke the band into the rock mainstream thanks to hits such as “Picture This,” “One Way or Another,” and the disco-influenced “Heart of Glass.” Eat to the Beat (1979) was similarly successful Blondie were mainstream in America in 1978 Source

The one that always tickles me is that a UK radio DJ Sarah Cox named her son Isaac. Fortunately for the poor little blighter she later married the boys father and he took / was given his surname

Well Talking Heads and Blondie were American, are you trying to tell me a “Cutting Edge” radio station in NYC had only just picked up on them in 1982, doesn’t sound very “finger in the pulse” to me unless checking the pulse of a corpse. in 1977 when the Buzzcocks released Spiral Scratch on their own label was the birth of Indie, half the bands listed were pop music not new wave. Typical American pap

Not sure that I would TBH, checked the IMDB write up U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City. By 1982 U2 had already released Boy and October, Talking Heads had previously released Psycho Killer and Once in a Lifetime the Eno years were over, Blondie had already split up as did the Clash in 82 after 6 years. The Cure had also been together for 6 years by then, so far from being visionaries WLIR were essentially playing mainstream UK pop music since that is what Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and Tears for Fears were. Indie music 1982 included The Smiths and Durutti Column (that’s just Manchester) or REM stateside