Off Topic And Now for Something Completely Different

Congratulations. And celebrations...No wonder you have gone into rhapsodies about it.

 

That's your personal opinion. I find the Ride of the Valkyries rather uplifting, and I imagine Quill would, if he/she could get one.

 

Mama Mia, Beelzebub has a ...
Nighty night, and may your dog go with you.

 

Ride of the Valkyries is a fantastic piece, but I can't hear it without remembering the scene from Apocalypse Now.

Same with Adagio for Strings and Platoon.

 

4 November, 1956
Soviet tanks roll into Budapest to crush revolution.

 

They lost that one, but were far more successful 3 years earlier.

The following clip is not intended to reflect any political commentary - it's football !

 

I was only 4 then. Presumably there were marches on the Soviet embassy with demands they stopped interferingninnthevaffairs of another country?

 

there are some hugely uplifting segments in Wagner. For example Siegfried's funeral march from Gotterdamerung, used so brilliantly in Excalibur.

 

Music wise I think I am quite boring.

I only like Reggae and Ska

 

There were protests, as far as I can remember. Many CP members quit in reaction to the Soviet invasion. A woman opposite our house took in a Hungarian refugee.

Britain, with France and Israel, was focussed on Suez, intent on slapping down the 'upstart' Nasser...

 

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I think the scales fell from the eyes of a lot of British communists.

 

Years ago,all managers were paid more than the players, though no one was paying to watch them.
I seem to recall reading that when the maximum wage for a footballer was £15, around 1950 or so, Matt Busby was getting paid more than the Prime Minister, a considerable difference at the time.

 

Some, like Denis Healey., did. Other left wingers couldn't bring themselves to condemn it but roused themselves to protest outside the US embassy all through the 1960s.

 

Mote and Beam?

 

Can't find any pictures of mass protestsoutside their embassy like there were outside the USOnes, with police having to battle with baying mobs.
A lot of our leading left-wingers never criticised it, and continued to ignore or justify it, as they did with the Prague Spring. Abroad supposed intellectuals like Sartre excused any actions by the USSR whilst back home the likes of Hobspawn replied,when asked about the millions murdered under Stalin, that 50-70 million was a high price to pay admittedly but 20 million or so would have been acceptable to advance the cause.
Better stop now. It will get locked.

On a lighter note, November 4th 1876 saw the premiere of Brahms' 1st Symphony in C, whilst in 1890 the first underground station at Stockwell was opened.

 

No, hypocritical.

 

No... politics?

Actually, carry on.