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Post by Del Boy on Jul 19, 2020 20:01:50 GMT
Unit 4 + 2 - Concrete and Clay This film was shot in 1965 on the site of The Barbican Centre as it was being built. Health and Safety wouldn't have that these days I'm sure. I had a look around on maps trying to find the buildings in the background of the shot. It's an area that has seen plenty of development over the intervening near six decades and it seems they have gone since those days. I would say looking around the streets on the perimeter of The Barbican that a lot of the 60s stuff has already been replaced due to the more modern looking glass type stuff around the area.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jul 19, 2020 20:49:55 GMT
Good call Derek I can see Cripplegate Free Library over in the background and a couple of other key buildings but as you say, so much has changed around there since the 60s. Gene.
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Post by Del Boy on Jul 20, 2020 23:12:37 GMT
Thanks for the info Gene and I found a few bits out about this. The song first charted on 03.03.1965 and stayed about for 15 weeks .The film was issued on the 1 st April 1965. The nearest photograph I can find that shows that face of the library as per the film is this one dated from 19 August 1965. The trench curving through the picture from left to bottom centre is the Metropolitan/Circle line between Barbican and Moorgate station. Barbican station is just out of shot to the left .The band would have been on the bottom left corner of the picture, note the white huts in the pic and in the film. The library is further up on the left side of the pic with its distinctive white roof-line on the other side of the railway. Map- The Library is pinned as 1 Golden Lane . My best guess looking at the shape of the building on the map and the pic above is that the band are standing in the area approximately where the girls school is marked on the map. The Barbican Centre /Cripplegate library
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Post by Windy Miller on Jul 22, 2020 15:39:31 GMT
The opening scene of the Eurythmics video "Love Is A Stranger", with a limousine pulling up to the kerb, is filmed from this building :-
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Post by Steve Austin on Jul 22, 2020 19:25:14 GMT
"Wired For Sound" by Cliff Richard was filmed in and around Milton Keynes in 1981. We see him here outside Norfolk House (I used to work in this building in the mid 80's, not the one shown in the video clip, that's Ashton House): Then Now (the building shown is is the aforementioned Norfolk House): Here we see him skating past John Lewis inside the Shopping Centre: Then Now:
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 22, 2020 22:25:34 GMT
"Charlotte Sometimes" by The Cure was filmed at the Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water. There were other videos filmed here such as Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", Adam and the Ants' "Goody Two Shoes", and Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moon" but it is The Cure's video that gives the best detail coverage of the sanatorium buildings. >>> Virginia Park <<<The sanatorium closed in 1980 not long after a major fire in 1978 (I remember seeing it on fire, you could see it for miles) but now it has been converted to residential flats and renamed as Virginia Park. Sam.
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Post by Windy Miller on Jul 25, 2020 16:46:14 GMT
Richard Ashcroft from The Verve begins his unswerving walk in the video for "Bittersweet Symphony" here :- Google View
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jul 25, 2020 20:32:09 GMT
Richard Ashcroft from The Verve begins his unswerving walk in the video for "Bittersweet Symphony" here :- Google View
You up for doing a recreation Windy?! One of their biggest hits which didn’t earn them a penny ultimately due to The Rolling Stones taking offence at them sampling/interpolating 'The Last Time'... Hmmm not sure they (The Stones) needed to do that or the money.
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Post by Windy Miller on Jul 26, 2020 9:29:23 GMT
Richard Ashcroft from The Verve begins his unswerving walk in the video for "Bittersweet Symphony" here :- Google View
You up for doing a recreation Windy?! One of their biggest hits which didn’t earn them a penny ultimately due to The Rolling Stones taking offence at them sampling/interpolating 'The Last Time'... Hmmm not sure they (The Stones) needed to do that or the money. When you consider how the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time" is very similar to a 1955 song by The Staple Singers called "This May Be The Last Time," but The Stones claimed it as their own. Double standards Michael?
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 26, 2020 14:13:03 GMT
You up for doing a recreation Windy?! One of their biggest hits which didn’t earn them a penny ultimately due to The Rolling Stones taking offence at them sampling/interpolating 'The Last Time'... Hmmm not sure they (The Stones) needed to do that or the money. When you consider how the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time" is very similar to a 1955 song by The Staple Singers called "This May Be The Last Time," but The Stones claimed it as their own. Double standards Michael? It was Allen Klein, Stones manager in the late 1960s and who controlled the band's copyrights, who sued The Verve for plagiarism shortly after Bitter Sweet Symphony was released. In late 1997, The Verve settled with Klein by giving Jagger and Richards songwriter credits on Bitter Sweet Symphony and so gave publishing royalties to ABKCO Records, Klein's company.
Meanwhile Andrew Loog Oldham (another Stones manager) who also had a songwriting credit on The Last Time separately sued The Verve in 1999 for about $1.7 million for songwriter royalties. It was an orchestral arrangement of The Last Time, recorded in 1965 by the Andrew Oldham Orchestra, which The Verve used. As a result of the two suits against The Verve, all royalty payments on Bitter Sweet Symphony went to Oldham, Jagger and Richards for many years.
As they say in the music biz, "Where there's a hit, there's a writ"
By the by, in April 2019 Mick & Keith Richards signed over all their publishing for "Bitter Sweet Symphony" back to The Verve
Now you know
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