Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Surrey Villain on June 02, 2013, 12:15:11 PM
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Villa fan Mervyn King - outgoing Governor of The Bank Of England - has just been on Desert Island Disks and one of his choices was 'Rotterdam '82' sung by Doug O'Brien. Even Kirsty Young liked it! He said it it was relatively unknown but he plays it wherever he goes and it is very popular. He is right. I have searched but can't find it. Can anybody?
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Villa fan from Erdington. Must have been financed personally. Probably only a few pressings made because of the costs.
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Oh well, have to make do with a few lines on Desert Island Disks.
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Villa fan Mervyn King - outgoing Governor of The Bank Of England - has just been on Desert Island Disks and one of his choices was 'Rotterdam '82' sung by Doug O'Brien. Even Kirsty Young liked it! He said it it was relatively unknown but he plays it wherever he goes and it is very popular. He is right. I have searched but can't find it. Can anybody?
I remember asking George Gavin about this when he worked for brmb and was delighted a couple of days later when he sent me the cassette with his regards , a catchy song, better than Ricky disoni with his hey aston villa.
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Villa fan Mervyn King - outgoing Governor of The Bank Of England - has just been on Desert Island Disks and one of his choices was 'Rotterdam '82' sung by Doug O'Brien. Even Kirsty Young liked it! He said it it was relatively unknown but he plays it wherever he goes and it is very popular. He is right. I have searched but can't find it. Can anybody?
I remember asking George Gavin about this when he worked for brmb and was delighted a couple of days later when he sent me the cassette with his regards , a catchy song, better than Ricky disoni with his hey aston villa.
Catchy indeed. Sir Mervyn and Kirsty Young both said the same.
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Did Mervyn go to Rotterdam?
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Thanks for the prompt, To listen again on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr or iplayer etc the snippet/relevant chat is 26.57-29.00.
So if the guy sticks it on iTunes, how many of us have to buy it for it to chart?! Good charity fundraiser?!
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Missus was listening and i heard mention of rotterdam 1982 and the song started. had to stick around to work out what it was about. never heard that song before
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Catchy song, sounded a bit like Billy Brag at the start.
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Apparently when Tommy Hitz played for us he used to visit Mervyn King at the Bank of England and discuss world finance.
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From the same artist:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSgMq-dOVw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMogWN7BLjU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLVr0NJwE0
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Just listened to the link purple posted , how sad they only played half the song - dirty bbc scoundrels!
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From the same artist:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfSgMq-dOVw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMogWN7BLjU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLVr0NJwE0
Please, someone, switch off the internet.
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Just listened to the link purple posted , how sad they only played half the song - dirty bbc scoundrels!
You very rarely get the whole track played on Desert Island Discs.
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Just listened to the link purple posted , how sad they only played half the song - dirty bbc scoundrels!
You very rarely get the whole track played on Desert Island Discs.
They played more of it on Desert Island Discs. It was shortened on iPlayer for copyright reasons or something. Has no-one got access to the complete track?
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Did Mervyn go to Rotterdam?
He didn't actually say, only that it reminded him regularly of the Club's greatest day in Rotterdam in '82.
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Villa fan Mervyn King - outgoing Governor of The Bank Of England - has just been on Desert Island Disks and one of his choices was 'Rotterdam '82' sung by Doug O'Brien. Even Kirsty Young liked it! He said it it was relatively unknown but he plays it wherever he goes and it is very popular. He is right. I have searched but can't find it. Can anybody?
I was bought that, it was released on cassette. My mum got me it for xmas as she spotted it in the club shop catalogue and assumed it was a commentary of the game, oh how we laughed when we heard the pile of crap that was on the tape.
"We're all going to Rotterdam, each and every Villa fan fsing Villa, Aston Villa...." or something like that.
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Just listened to the link purple posted , how sad they only played half the song - dirty bbc scoundrels!
You very rarely get the whole track played on Desert Island Discs.
They played more of it on Desert Island Discs. It was shortened on iPlayer for copyright reasons or something. Has no-one got access to the complete track?
I have it on cassette .
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It's not on I tunes
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It's not on I tunes
No, Sir Mervyn said it had never been released commercially so only a few copies handed around at the time exist. Shame, I would like one of them.
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It's not on I tunes
No, Sir Mervyn said it had never been released commercially so only a few copies handed around at the time exist. Shame, I would like one of them.
I remember George Gavin playing it on brmb at the time and asking him about it , next day he sent me a cassette in the post - god lad George!