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The History Of Music

Duration: 2:09 minutes
Accession No: TWCMS : 2009.64
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Summary
This story is about Arthur's interest in music, the types of clothes he used to wear and the type of music he likes.

By Arthur Pike

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This story was inspired by a bottle from the collections at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.


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It was 1973 when a friend of mine said "Arthur, you look just like someone off the telly. Your style is fantastic, you lookjust like Rodney Bewes from the Likely Lads" I liked the styles then. All the clothes and the music. I really liked the Heavy Metal styles. I had long long hair that went down past my shoulders and I washed it in Beer shampoo to make it healthy and shiny. It was all backcombed  to make it big. I wore a kipper tie, with a big knot and a flowery shirt. My suit came from Saville Road and was a reddish stripe pattern. It cost several hundred pounds and I kept it for best. I had it for 12 years or more until it went out of style. My platform shoes were 4 inches high and I fell off them more times than I remember and even mamnaged to break my leg. I liked the music. I like Rock music like The Stones: The Doors: The Yardbirds and Cream. I saw The Stones and The Beatles at the Sunderland Empire and I met Mick Jagger. I told him that I thought that his band was better than the Beatles and he looked me up and down and told me that he thought I was Paul McCartney standing in front of him. I still like Rock Music today. I like Metalica, Bon Jovi, and Guns and Roses and I bet you'd pass me by in the street and you'd never know it.

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