Phillip Ingham, Author at RG Magazines

A 29 year remembrance of the Hillsborough disaster

Phillip Ingham — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:19:42 +0000

One if the saddest days of my life occurred April 15th 1989. An FA cup semi final game between Liverpool and Nottingham should’ve been an occasion to celebrate as I donned my red Liverpool shirt scarf and hat that day in Nottingham.

The sun shone beautifully through my moms’ living room window as I eagerly set up the radio to get full commentary of the game. The whole week was nothing but talk about it — who will Kenny Dalglish pick for his Liverpool team? I was thinking this as I perused the newspapers that week.

My adrenaline was always high in the lead up to games but this was special. Liverpool have the opportunity to clinch an FA cup final place if they can beat Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest and go on to clinch a league and cup double in May.

The three o’clock kick off had finally arrived as Liverpool had there first chance to score. Suddenly a Liverpool supporter ran onto the pitch and then another. What was happening ? Was there crowd trouble ?

The section behind Bruce Grobellar (Liverpool goal keeper) had become over crowded to the point where supporters were starting to get crushed.

Bruce asked the police officer next to the pen, to “get the gate open” and was ignored until the officer was told by him in no uncertain terms to open it. By then it was too late as casualties began to mount up and advertising boards were used as stretchers until the paramedics arrived.

As the chaos mounted, both sets of players were ordered to leave the field until order was established. People that had come watch a football game were now perishing before the eyes of the nation. Those who survived the crush were embraced shocked and dazed by the events.

By 3.15 that afternoon 60 people had perished in the crush at the leppings lane end of the ground. No longer was I interested in football as numbness over took me. I just couldn’t speak that evening as I sat with my mother unable to comprehend the events of the afternoon.

Losing my father to a cardiac arrest when I was six was my first taste of bereavement. The shock and numbness was there that day in 1976 as well. Now as an 18 year old going on 19 it was there again only on a far far bigger scale.

The final death toll was 96. Bill Shankly former Liverpool manager once said “football’s a matter of life and death.” No it’s not. Human life is far more important and is a gift that needs to be protected and cherished always.

Losing my mother to cancer in 1994 only brings this message home further that life can never be taken for granted. For the 96 that perished may you all rest in peace and that none of you will ever walk alone.

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Charlie’s Angels a 42nd anniversary of a television phenomenon

Phillip Ingham — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:05:13 +0000

Beginnings

As 1970s television progressed, tv networks were inundated with detective shows such as Kojak, Columbo, Mannix and the Rockford files. Early 1976 saw a dramatic shift in this concept of story telling. Ivan Goff and Benn Roberts (writers of Mannix) devised a script that involved three female detectives who were assigned to the Townsend detective agency. Produced by Arron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg (Swat Starsky and Hutch), the three detectives Kate Jackson (Sabrina Duncan), Jaclyn Smith (Kelly Garrett), Farrah Fawcett Majors (Jill Munroe) were headed by Bosley (David Doyle). Each of the Angels received their assignments through a radio speaker, the voice of Charlie (John Forsyth, Dynasty). The pilot debuted on ABC television on March 21st, 1976 receiving spectacular ratings. The Charlie’s Angels phenomenon was born and the following September saw its series debut with ‘Hell ride’, immediately hitting the top ten of shows for the 1976-77 season. Worldwide success was soon to follow making stars out of each if the Angels…especially Farrah.

Angel flying the nest

With her blond hair and blue eyes and angelic face, Farrah Fawcett Majors became an over night poster sensation. It seemed as though every girl and woman wanted the ‘Farrah look’. She seemed to have the perfect life; Beautiful, blonde, wealthy and married to the Six Million Dollar Mans’, Lee Majors. The long and brutal hours on set was placing a strain on her marriage. “This family makes $55,000 a week and I make 50 of it. When I get up in the morning Farrah’s not there and when I come home Farrah is still not there”, Lee said in a 1977 interview. Not wishing to jeopardize her marriage, Farrah decided to leave the show at the end of the season.

Enter Cheryl exit Farrah

Despite the strains and disappointments of Farrah’s departure, Spelling and Goldberg chose a young Cheryl Ladd as replacement. Bright and energetic, she immediately took to the other Angels. Audiences were treated to her first performance in the opening season 2 episode ‘Angels in paradise’. It was like Farrah had never left as fans loved Cheryl’s portrait as Jill Munroes kid sister. Guest celebrities were becoming the norm as Sammy Davis Jr portrayed himself in the fan favorite ‘ The Sammy Davis jr kidnap caper’. The strength of the show continued as season 2 concluded with ‘Antique Angels’…with another change on the horizon.

Bye bye Sabrina

Season 3 opened with ‘Angels in Vegas’ with a special appearance by Dean Martin. With the success of Charlie’s Angels came the pressures and the long hours that are involved in television production. An offer to star in the up coming Kramer v Kramer movie gave Kate Jackson the opportunity to further her career but it was not meant to be as contractual obligations prevented her from doing this. Unhappy and only earning $5000 a week (equivalent to $19,848.95 in today’s money) she decided to leave the show at the end of the season.

Replacing Angels and falling ratings

As ratings began to fall, producers spelling and Goldberg introduced Tiffany Wells as Kate Jacksons replacement. Unlike Cheryl, fans did not take to Tiffanys character for the beginning of the 1979-80 season. Despite excellent episodes such as ‘Haunting Angels’ and ‘Angel on the streets’ ratings continued to plummet with top shows for that season being Archie bunkers place and Love Boat. Season 1980-81 would be the last season for Charlie’s Angels despite the inclusion of Tanya Roberts replacing Tiffany Wells. With Jaclyn Smith being the only surviving member of all 5 seasons, she was more then happy to see the series end. “I was so exhausted by the end of the last episode that I couldn’t even remember any ones name on the set,” She said.

As Charlies Angels entered ABC’s museum of classic shows, it will always be remembered as one of the most ground breaking series in the history of television.

RIP Farrah Fawcett and David Doyle.

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Good Times and great ratings

Phillip Ingham — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 14:24:56 +0000

Good Times was a phenomenally successful CBS sitcom that aired from February 8, 1974 until August 1, 1979.
The show starred John Amos, as bull-headed father James Evans, Ester Rolle, who played his wife Florida Evans, with Ralph Carter, staring as socially conscious Michael, Jimmy Walker played James Evans Jnr, or J.J., with Bernadette Stanis, took on the role of Thelma, the studious daughter.
The show was set in Chicago, with the family living in a housing project that was based on the infamous Cabrini-Green projects.
Episodes of Good Times dealt with the characters’ attempts to overcome poverty. James Evans was portrayed often working at least two jobs, mostly manual labor such as dishwasher, construction laborer, etc. Often he was unemployed, but the character is a proud man who will not accept charity. When he has to, he hustles money playing pool, although Florida disapproves of this.

Not so good times
The show was intended to be a good vehicle for Esther Rolle and John Amos. Both expected it to deal with serious topics in a comedic way while providing positive characters for viewers to identify with.
However, Jimmie Walker’s character, was an immediate hit with audiences and became the breakout character of the series. J.J.’s frequent use of the expression “Dy-no-mite!” became a popular and the producers insisted it was used in every episode. As a result of the character’s popularity, the writers focused more on J.J.’s comedic antics instead of serious issues.
Through seasons two and three, Rolle and Amos grew increasingly disillusioned with the direction of the show and especially with J.J.’s antics and stereotypically buffoonish behavior. Rolle was vocal about her hate of his character. In a 1975 interview with Ebony magazine she stated: “He’s 18 and he doesn’t work. He can’t read or write. He doesn’t think. The show didn’t start out to be that…Little by little—with the help of the artist, I suppose, because they couldn’t do that to me—they have made J.J. more stupid and enlarged the role. Negative images have been slipped in on us through the character of the oldest child.”
As season three approached, Amos’s anger was directed towards producer Norman Lear who felt that he was developing a negative stereotype of JJ, portraying him as a stupid black youth. “I wasn’t going to be part of a negative stereo-type,” Amos said. The friction between Amos and Lear finally came to ahead that season and John Amos made his final appearance in the last episode, The Rent Party.

Florida takes centre stage
With Amos written out of good times, it fell to Rolle to keep the series, and Evans family, afloat. The ratings continued to remain high with guest appearances in episodes such as, JJ and the Older Woman, staring Rosalind Cash. However, as with Amos, Jimmy Walker’s portrayal of JJ was wearing thin with Rolle, who left after the end of the fourth season.
While season five, in which the remaining Evans children live alone, included one of the show’s most talked about storylines, with Janet Jackson as abused child Penny, it did little to stop a drastic fall in ratings.

Rolle return not enough
Before taping of season six began, CBS and the show’s producers decided that they had to do “something drastic” to increase viewership. According to Steve Mills, the then-vice president of CBS programming: “We had lost the essence of the show. Without parental guidance the show slipped. Everything told us that: our mail, our phone calls, our research. We felt we had to go back to basics.”
Rolle agreed to return under certain conditions, namely more money and better storylines.
In the season six premiere episode Florida’s Homecoming: Part 1, Florida returns from Arizona to attend Thelma’s upcoming wedding to professional football player Keith Anderson (Ben Powers, who joined the cast for the final season).
Ultimately Rolle’s return wasn’t enough and CBS cancelled the show during the 1978-79 season.
In the series finale, The End of the Rainbow, each character finally gets a happy ending. J.J. gets his big break as an artist for a comic book company with his newly created character, DynoWoman, which is based on Thelma (much to her surprise and delight), and is moving into an apartment with some lady friends. Michael attends college and moves into an on-campus dorm. Keith’s bad knee heals due to his exercise and own physical therapy, leading to the Chicago Bears offering him a contract to play football.
Keith announces that he and Thelma are moving into a luxury apartment in the city’s upscale Gold Coast district. Thelma also announces that she is pregnant with the couple’s first child. Keith offers Florida the chance to move in with them so she can help Thelma with the new baby.
So came to an end one of the most famous and talked about television series in broadcast history.

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Real or Hoax?

Phillip Ingham — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 21:21:15 +0000

The events that were immortalised in Stuart Rosenberg’s 1979 film The Amityville Horror, based on the book of the same name by Jay Anson, happened some 42 years ago — but the story is still as compelling as ever. Philip Ingham looks back on the events of 1975 and explains why he is convinced it wasn’t a hoax.

It was Thursday, December 18, 1975. George and Kathy Lutz and their three children had finally found their dream home in 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, New York. Purchased at a very reasonable price of $80.000, George and Kathy had finally arrived into their new home. Thirteen months earlier a family of six had been murdered by 23-year-old Ronald Defeo, hence the price tag. The events of the previous year were explained by the broker but the Lutz’s were not perturbed in anyway by these events.

The first day

Being a Catholic family, the Lutz’s stuck with the tradition of having their new home blessed. Father Ray, a Catholic priest and friend for many years was more then happy to assist the loving couple. The six bedroom home also had a sewing room where the blessing would begin.

The nightmare begins

Beginning his blessing with holy water, Father Ray suddenly stopped — he could feel a presence behind him. Being told to “get out” in no uncertain terms by the voice, he was then slapped. Shocked and disorientated, he left the house and told George not to use the sewing room before getting into his car.

Flies from nowhere

Being that they were so busy moving boxes and furniture, George and Kathy didn’t notice the events building up in the sewing room. Their son, seven year-old Christopher, went to clear away the flies he found in there.

“I would kill them with my newspaper and then go back and they would be there again,” Christopher said.

When George finally got around to entering the room he was amazed to see this happening in winter.

“The longer we stayed in the house the more flies there were,” he said afterwards. “I don’t have an explanation as to why they were there, but that’s where they were.”

Strange happenings and the Red Room

Alone at home and with George away and working as a surveyor, Kathy Lutz spent most of her time getting to know her new surroundings. She could feel the presence of a soft hand on her while she was in the kitchen. Not wanting to alarm family about this she proceeded down the basement to discover a small red room. Slowly, but surely, Kathy’s love for her new home was starting to fade.

“It was red and had an odour to it,” she recalled in a later interview. “When our black Labrador, Harry, wouldn’t go near the room, it was more disturbing to us.”

Missy’s imagination or something more sinister?

Just before Christmas Day Missy, the Lutz’s five-year-old daughter, began playing with an imaginary friend called Jodie.
“Do angels talk?” She asked her mom. Not taking much notice of Missy’s question, George proceeded to work on his boat until he looked up at her bedroom window. Seeing sharp red eyes looking down at him, George proceeded to enter Missy’s room to discover her talking by herself to a moving rocking chair.

“There would be no one there except her rocking chair moving by itself.”

Influence growing

The days after Christmas saw a dramatic increase in events. In interviews later the Lutz’s claimed a marching band could be heard downstairs at 3.15am, the same time the Defeo murders had occurred. Reaching the top of the stairs, the sound would stop, black stains would appear on the bathroom fixtures, an epoxy glue substance would come from the keyholes, while banging and scraping could be heared regularly through the night.

The family claimed this was the moment they realised “they were facing real evil”. In an attempt to stop the phenomenon occurring, a blessing was performed throughout the house.

Kathy said afterwards: “When we did that we heared a chorus of voices say to us, ‘will you stop!'”

January 14, 1976

Less than a month into their time in their new home the Lutz’s had reached the end of their tether. Desperate and turned numb by the strange events the family again tried to bring some sanity to their home with another blessing. It failed and it was the last time they ever set foot in 112 Ocean Avenue.

“The children’s beds above me were levitating and crashing to the floor, there was a storm going on in the house, Harry was being sick downstairs, doors were slamming and the marching band could be heared through out the house,” George said.

“We finally left because the house became unlivable, there was no point in staying there any longer.”

Was it a hoax ? Was it a real event?

Whatever caused Ronald Defeo to kill his family, was there when the Lutzs moved in. As a consequence of the house blessing by Father Ray, it set off a chain of events that eventually forced Kathy and George to leave there home and not come back.

In sympathy of the Lutz’s

It’s hard to imagine that this really is a hoax — I say this because of how much the family had lost through these events, as the house was given back to the bank two months later. The many movies and books that were made did not make George and Kathy wealthy in anyway, even though they had the opportunity to be set for life with their children.

They were given lie detector tests in July 1979 by the most qualified person at the time, and they both passed. They have given few interviews in the decades since, with their very last together in 2001 on the History Channel.

Kathy grew sick with emfazema, but she gave this quote before passing in 2006, a year after her husband’s death: “There is nothing that I can say other than that this is the truth, this is my testimony and yours is just an opinion, and opinion dosent hold water.”

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Tuesday, December 7th 1976

Phillip Ingham — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:07:58 +0000

Happy greetings were everywhere that Christmas. Hamilton was bathed in tinsel and lights as my mom took all of us to town for Christmas shopping. Mego toys were becoming the phenomenon amongst kids as I searched the Annex Store for Batman, Aquaman and Spider-Man wondering which one would be a favorite of mine for Christmas. Dee liked the Osmonds while Paul was a bike fanatic — remember Chopper bikes? Good things were happening on tv too with the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman reaching incredible ratings as Steve Austin was doing his own version of Scrooge in a “Bionic Christmas carol.”

What a blast from the past.
In the news

Four hundred sandy’s residents and two opposition MPs have won their 12 month fight to keep a bridge on the scenic Somerset right of way at Harmony Bay. An investigation is underway into the collision between a police boat, Blue Heron and the Paget ferry Geirgia and A Canadian serviceman William Pearson, who was saved from drowning near Grotto Bay,was in satisfactory condition at the King Edward Hospital.

In the U.K. punk rock band, The Sex Pistols appear in Bill Grundy’s TV show promoting their new single ‘Anarchy in the UK’. Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan win the Nobel peace prize while inflation stands at 16.5 percent.
In the U.S., ‘Hotel California’ is released by the Eagles. Richard J.Daley Mayor of Chicago for 21 years dies while in office and California’s sodomy law is repealed.

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Holiday shopping in style

Phillip Ingham — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:01:33 +0000

November 17th 1976: What a beautiful time of year to be in Bermuda. Cool, crisp and Christmas only weeks away. The Starsky and Hutch phenomenon was well underway in Bermuda as the Annex Store sold a huge array of merchandise. Reid Street and Queen Street shoppers were styled in plaid jackets, afros with bell bottoms that were all the rage. My family was no different as my brother, Paul proudly wore wing collars, my mom wore beige slacks — for me, purple bell bottoms. Being only six, I was more interested in my shows for that week. How did Starsky and Hutch capture that vampire? What’s going to happen to the bionic boy?

In the news

Yesterday, in Bermuda, the Premier the Hon. Jack Sharpe stated that people’s individual problems cannot be solved just by having independence. He was guest speaker at a luncheon marking the opening of the Bermuda Bicenntenial conference at the Bermudiana hotel.

“Bermuda hotels lost nearly 10 million dollars in the last three years”, said the Bermuda Hotel Association, Vice President, Lyndon Clay. He went on to say that if the trend continues hotel closures will be coming very soon.

A HIP clerk appeared in Magiatrates Court yesterday being accused of stealing $18,000. The person cannot be named for legal reasons. Appearing before Senior Magiatrate Hon.Wor Richard Hector, the accused person admitted the theft and said it was done due to financial difficulties.

In the U.K, the seven robbers who stole $8,000,000 from the Bank of America in Mayfair are sentenced to a hundred years in jail.

Meanwhile in the United States, Jimmy Carter defeats President Gerald Ford — becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win from the civil war. The musical group The Band holds its farewell tour in San Francisco titled The Waltz and Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the State of New Mexico.

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November 10, 1984

Phillip Ingham — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:19:40 +0000

The weekend was finally here, homework done and books put away as I indulged in my love for Liverpool on the BBC world service. Hamilton was bedecked in football jerseys that day as the bars went crazy for the English Premier League. My own frustration was very noticeable as Everton stormed to another win keeping my beloved reds off the top spot.

At least I had Soundstage to comfort my disappointment, as I bought the latest Heaven 17 album, ‘how men are’. I just couldn’t wait to crank this as I entered the number 7 bus to go home. As my mom got dressed for work and my siblings planned a night out at Disco 40, it was the A-Team for me and T.J. Hooker — ready for both to save the world yet again.

In the news

In Bermuda, maverick MP Harry Viera, blasted just about every MP in the house including Premier John Swan — calling him a “day dreamer” saying that his party “lacks imagination” along with “poor debating”. Senator Lllewllyn Peniston yesterday lashed out the Bermuda National Trust calling them hypocritical busy bodies for opposing plans to build new homes.

In the United Kingdom, 800 miners end their strip and return to work. Britain’s top musicians gather at Notting hill studios to record ‘Do they knows it’s Christmas’ as band aid to raise money for the Ethiopian famine crisis. British Telecom shares go on sale and the British and French governments seek private promotors to build the channel tunnel which is expected to be open by the early 1990s.

Meanwhile in the U.S., Ronald Reagan defeats Walter Mondale in the US Presidential election winning with 59 percent of the vote.Velma Barfield becomes the first woman to be executed by capital punishment since 1962 in Raleigh, California and the unemployment rate drops 7.2 percent — The same level it was when the recession began in June 1981.

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A stroke of style in ’82

Phillip Ingham — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:51:11 +0000

November 3rd 1982: Winter was finally arriving with so much to look forward to at the weekend. Hamilton? St Georges where would I go? Soundstage was the place to be. Great bands such as Duran Duran and The Human League were all over the radio as I headed for town. It was either thin cut hair or the wave length style that was the fashion in Bermuda. Gone were the plaid jackets to be replaced by thinner collared blazers. TV was just as stylish but very family orientated with classics such as Magnum, P.I. and Different Strokes that were all the rage…RIP Gary Coleman.

In the news

In Bermuda, the chairman of the public services committee Mr. Louis Mowbry has warned the media that any information given out on Government job appointments will result in legal action with sentences of up to a year and fines of $240.

Police are investigating a knife attack where a man was wounded over an argument over a game of pool. The incident took place at Willeys pool bar in Hamilton.

UBP senator Llewlynn Peniston has hit back at the opposition PLP over Bermudas housing problem, stating that the Government is doing all it can to provide housing to local residents.

In the United Kingdom, Channel 4 starts its first broadcast with the game show countdown and Liverpool soap opera, Brook Side. The Conservative party maintain a healthy lead in the opinion polls over the labor party despite 3,000,000 people registered as unemployed while the Express Lift tower is officially opened in Northampton.

In the States, the unemployment rate peaks at 10.8 percent. Michael Jacksons Thriller is released becoming the biggest selling album of all time and the Vietnam war memorial is opened in Washington D.C.

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A Marvel-ous argument

Phillip Ingham — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:19:25 +0000

October 27th 1977: Oh what a winter and what a year it was. Reggae was in full swing as I was introduced to Bob Marley’s ‘Jammin’ hit on my brother Paul’s stereo system. Long hair and Adidas shoes were all the rage around Hamilton as Paul was striving to look like John Travolta and sister Dee Farrah Fawcett Majors. Washington Mall was a total blast around this time.

A feeling of Christmas etched ever near wondering if I would ever get that Six Million dollar Man action figure as Steve Austin’s latest encounter with Bigfoot left me breathless in’Bigfoot V’. And of course not forgetting my debates with my friend on who was the strongest — The Incredible Hulk or Wonder Woman.

In the news

Mr. Roy Mucklow, manager of South Capers Cottage colony has appealed to the people of Bermuda to ask whether he should stay or go, after the Minister of Home Affairs, Hon. John Swan gave him 48 hours to leave the Island after an appeal to the cabinet was rejected.

City Hall highlighted Mental Health Week where the subject of alcoholism was discussed with various films shown about the dangers of excessive drinking.

UBP member Dr.Vincent Bridgewater stated that he will not resign from his cabinet position after being found guilty of assaulting a police officer.

In the United Kingdom, police are still searching for the notorious ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ murderer after his latest victim was found on October 10th.

The murder of school boy Carl Bridgewater is still under investigation in the greater Nottingham area.

Christmas cheer came early for many British Residents as Chancellor Denis Healey gave a tax rebate and a two per cent increase in wages across the Country.

Meanwhile, the United States circulated a proposal to the UN Security Council calling for a time delayed arms embargo on South Africa.

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An English summer

Phillip Ingham — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:22:42 +0000

Wednesday, August 4 1982

That summer of ’82, the UK was bathed in sunshine, especially Nottingham where I lived.

Being 12 years old, the feeling of innocence and safety was all around me as the sounds of Duran Duran, Human League and Survivor emanated all around my house as I contemplated the new school year.

Rocky 3 was still etched on my mind — that final round when Clubber Lang finally met his fate. 80’s television came across as colourful and fun. The Incredible Hulk, Knight Rider and soon four renegades forming the A-Team would soon make a massive impact on my life.

My weekly allowance from my mother meant new comic books on the weekend. Friendships were formed — the old ones were fading and new ones were blossoming as I slowly entered the beginning of my teen years.

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In the news

Bermuda college has temporarily run out of cash according to Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Arthur Hallett which has put a freeze on purchasing supplies for the facility.

In the UK, the Princess of Wales has her first child christened — William Arthur Philip Louis. The conservative government privatises the British National Oil Corporation, creating Britoil and 65-year-old American Ashby Harper is the oldest person to swim the English Channel.

In the United States, the Lebanese Civil War sees a multinational force land in Beirut to supervise the PLO withdrawal of troops from Lebanon.

School teacher, Carl Robert Brown, murders eight people inside a welding shop in Miami, Florida before being shot by a passing motorist.

Top Grossing Movies

– ET

– Rocky 3

– An Officer and a Gentlemen

Top Albums

– Thriller: Michael Jackson

– The Dreaming: Kate Bush

– RIO: Duran Duran

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