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Green Man
Rich wrote: Nick Heyward really is marvellous isn't he. Every time I've seen him in recent years I instantly feel good. I can't imagine he's anything other than just like he appears. Now he really is a good looking 63, proving age really is just a number and mindset. Stick Nick at 63 back among the 63 year olds of 50 years ago in the early 70s and he'd look young enough to be their son. Your average 33 year old back then looked older.
How can anyone dislike Haircut 100 if you were starting to notice pop music when they first appeared. They had 4 cracking top tens in very short succession within the year and were then gone.
Although billed as Haircut 100 it was still a shame that Nick didn't knock out a couple of his own solo singles from the year following the chart demise of Haircut 100. Whistle Down The Wind and Take That Situation were fabulous. You never hear his first solo hit (Whistle) anywhere yet it's a classy song. But just like Haircut 100, Nick's biggest and best solo singles all fell within the calendar year of 1983, so his group and solo discography of note really was an intensely compact period of time covering only two years from late 1981 to late 1983. Yet look how they've endured.
I've actually got a copy of Pelican West, their 1982 album, courtesy of the Daily Mail a few years ago when they kept giving out CD's with the paper and some very decent albums indeed from the 1980s. I've never listened to it all the way through so will have to do so.
Just one other thing, I think it's Haircut One Hundred, rather than Haircut 100 as a number isn't it? Well that's how it was promoted on the backdrop in Preston at the weekend and seems to be on the old record covers, and they should know I guess. But I do have books that vary between the word version and the number, and I think even TOTP at the time varied between the two versions when showing the countdown.
Rough Trade say Haircut 100 but on the album cover it's One Hundred. Not a bad price for a signed box set.
I hope we not going down the Bowie route. I did piss off a guy for saying Bow-ee, he said it's not pronounced like that. Then I said then Boo-e like the NBA basketball player. If you go places of interest in Texas the tour guides will pronounce Bowie as in Sam Bowie also.
Yeah I got their album too from the Daily Mail, in a cardboard cover. Probably the only reason I would have to buy the Daily Mail. I haven't listened to it many times. I already had a Nick Heyward and Haircut One Hundred greatest hits album which contained many of the tracks. They were basically a singles group, but what great singles. Any album that is 4 singles deep is going to be good. There used to be a hairdressers in Cranleigh called Haircut 100 up until about 10 or 12 years ago. I have to say that 1981 was probably the best year in my opinion for new bands emerging. Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Haircut 100, ABC, Japan, Soft Cell, and Altered Images. All had their first single or first hit in the case of Japan. What a year!
Rich
Nick Heyward really is marvellous isn't he. Every time I've seen him in recent years I instantly feel good. I can't imagine he's anything other than just like he appears. Now he really is a good looking 63, proving age really is just a number and mindset. Stick Nick at 63 back among the 63 year olds of 50 years ago in the early 70s and he'd look young enough to be their son. Your average 33 year old back then looked older.
How can anyone dislike Haircut 100 if you were starting to notice pop music when they first appeared. They had 4 cracking top tens in very short succession within the year and were then gone.
Although billed as Haircut 100 it was still a shame that Nick didn't knock out a couple of his own solo singles from the year following the chart demise of Haircut 100. Whistle Down The Wind and Take That Situation were fabulous. You never hear his first solo hit (Whistle) anywhere yet it's a classy song. But just like Haircut 100, Nick's biggest and best solo singles all fell within the calendar year of 1983, so his group and solo discography of note really was an intensely compact period of time covering only two years from late 1981 to late 1983. Yet look how they've endured.
I've actually got a copy of Pelican West, their 1982 album, courtesy of the Daily Mail a few years ago when they kept giving out CD's with the paper and some very decent albums indeed from the 1980s. I've never listened to it all the way through so will have to do so.
Just one other thing, I think it's Haircut One Hundred, rather than Haircut 100 as a number isn't it? Well that's how it was promoted on the backdrop in Preston at the weekend and seems to be on the old record covers, and they should know I guess. But I do have books that vary between the word version and the number, and I think even TOTP at the time varied between the two versions when showing the countdown.
Green Man
robbiex wrote: I love Haircut 100. They sounded really good, apart from the embarrassing live sound check which was the fault of the technicians not them. Nick Heyward has aged very well indeed, and is eternally upbeat.
I agree there Robbie, they are a band that is not really on my radar or I go out my way to listen to.
robbiex
I love Haircut 100. They sounded really good, apart from the embarrassing live sound check which was the fault of the technicians not them. Nick Heyward has aged very well indeed, and is eternally upbeat.
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