IMM Photos

Hello everyone!
We have made it to Cologne! Had a very nice ferry crossing and a very nice drive down! Got a few pictures uploaded here... https://s549.photobucket.com/albums/ii394/harryh733/IMM%202010/


Should hopefully get some more up on the way home

nice photos harry
good luck a IMM

Are you staying in a hotel in the Cologne area or a campsite ?

Just to let you know, in England, today and yesterday have probably been to nicest days of the year, so far..

So you're all missing out.

Don't worry Dan It got to 25 degrees today at mid day and now at 11pm its still in the 20s!

We are in a hotel tonight and then the camping begins tomorrow hen we get down to the IMM site

The IMM crew seem to be incommunicado like they are on an inter-planetery mission and are out of range. When the survivors straggle back they will have a Life On Mars moment and think it is May 1972 because Exile On Main Street by the Rolling Stones is number 1 !

Sorry to have to tell you Ian but the Rolling Stones did not have a No1 hit in May 1972. The No1 hits where The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Amazing Grace) and T. Rex (Metal Guru)

The 1972 No1 hits for the year were by The New Seekers, T.Rex, Chicory Tip, Nilsson, The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Don McLean, Slade, Donny Osmond, Alice Cooper, Rod Stewart, David Cassidy, Lieutenant Pigeon, Chuck Berry and Little Jimmy Osmond.
And I can remember all of them can you !!!!!!!!!!!

My god a young man with taste (bring it on)

Exile On Main Street was a number 1 album in 1972.
The number 1 albums of 1972 were

Electric Warrior - T-Rex
Concert For Bangladesh - various artists
Neil Reid - Neil Reid
Harvest - Neil Young
Paul Simon - Paul Simon
Fog On The Tyne - Lindisfarne
Machine Head - Deep Purple
Prophets , Seers and Sages And The Angels Of The Ages / My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair....But Now They're Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows - T- Rex
Bolan Boogie - T-Rex
Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones
20 Dynamic Hits - Various Artists
20 Fantastic Hits - Various Artists
20 All Time Hits Of The Fifties - Various Artists
25 Rockin' And Rolling Greats - Various Artists

The title track of Fog On The Tyne was of course re-recorded in 1990 by Lindisfarne and Paul Gascoigne in a shameless attempt by the latter to cash in on his World Cup antics. The Concert for Bangladesh was a charity concert organised by George Harrison and featured him, Eric Clapton , Bob Dylan and others. Machine Head was the classic Deep Purple album recorded in an empty hotel at Montreux , Switzerland in December 1971. The band had intended to record in the casino at Montreux but during a Frank Zappa concert a member of the audience fired a flare gun and the whole building went up in flames. The opening track on Machine Head was the driving "Highway Star" and the final track described the demise of the casino with that riff....."Smoke On The Water". Otherwise the big act of 1972 in the UK at least was T-Rex, although they only had one U.S hit.

StuddyFEX wrote:Fog on the tyne, pure quality!

I hope you don't mean the Gazza version ?
The royalties must have kept him stocked up with booze for nearly a week !

Well done Ian I thought you would come back with a good reply Brill

Unfortunately I remember Gazza's ghastley aural abortion. I wouldn't say Gazza has a drink problem , but when the England team came back from the world cup in Italy in 1990, manager Bobby Robson had to pay duty on him .....

Ian Nicholls wrote:I wouldn't say Gazza has a drink problem , but when the England team came back from the world cup in Italy in 1990, manager Bobby Robson had to pay duty on him .....

Ian Nicholls wrote:Unfortunately I remember Gazza's ghastley aural abortion. I wouldn't say Gazza has a drink problem , but when the England team came back from the world cup in Italy in 1990, manager Bobby Robson had to pay duty on him .....

ba-doom-tish!

Im back!! got home at 3 this morning. IMM was brilliant! so many nice minis and lots of nice people the organisation could have been better as we ended up camping on gravel :S and apparently they let in an extra 2000 people so it was a bit packed! we all made it back to Dover and I managed to break down in the middle of Dover at 10 last night but everyone helped me back on the road and with a bit of wire and some tape I got home! Lots of stories to tell but I think they will have to wait until Mini day will try and get some photos up later.

glad you got home ok Harry. Me, Boyd and Sue finally got to our hotel at midnight. Golly was already tucked up!!!

now going through my photos