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Vinyl loving welsh bloke and most stuff from the #70s food /music/clothes too for anything else follow me on @BSkansoul 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Unknown pleasures #joydivision The image was originally created by radio astronomer Harold Craft at the Arecibo Observatory for his 1970 doctoral dissertation as a way to visualize smaller pulses within larger ones. @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Happy Xmas from the best 70s legends. @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Very interesting reading bands that you couldn't listen to in the Soviet union circa 1985. @NewWaveAndPunk Not too sure if I've tweeted this before but always made an interesting thread .
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
The greatest band of all time... @NewWaveAndPunk They are the best band of the eighties in Britain, without a shadow of a doubt. It's not even disputable. They're great purveyors of atmosphere. -- Brian Griffin NEVER STOP: #EchoandtheBunnymen Shared from fb.
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
6 months
1927 or 82 👍🏻✊🏻
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Pre Slade/ Ambrose Slade - Don Powell, Jim Lea, Noddy Holder and Dave Hill in Piccadilly Circus / London. (Shared from the Rock N Roll redux FB page) Don Powell, Jim Lea, Noddy Holder and Dave Hill - #Slade @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Saturday morning 16 albums to choose from today .....👍🏻🌞 Top 3 if you want to play along . Don't ask where your fave album is as I've just shared this 😁
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
9 months
Harsh but fair it states ?
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
The Sex Pistols at posh London restaurant Langan’s Brasserie ca.1977, kept under surveillance from the back table by Michael Caine (who co-owned the restaurant at the time), as documented by John Mead. @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
20 days
#vinylRecords #memories If you can remember your first album purchased all those years ago 👍🏻 Stick it on the thread 👍🏻
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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Eli Wallach, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef in 1966, in a restaurant in Rome while filming The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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John Lydon, Joe Strummer, and Don Letts. Great picture @NewWaveAndPunk Not sure about the credit,👍🏻📸
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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Haunted House a game from the 70s 😁,I just have a vague memory of it .
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
A 17 year old Prince Rogers Nelson, 1975. Photo by Robert Whitman. @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
#warriors #BaseBall #furies a great picture from the film ✊👍. @NewWaveAndPunk still 1 of my fave films #70s #nowheretorunto
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Debbie Harry photographed by Lynn Goldsmith, 1977. Lovely photo 👍🏻📸 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
Well I'm not too sure what to say on this 1..... Just get an expert in 🙄 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
7 months
What gig takes your fancy from all those years ago
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
David Bowie and Mick Ronson, Train to Aberdeen, Scotland 1973. Photo by Mick Rock. #glamrock #Bowie #Ronson #70s Look at the great fashion of the era . @NewWaveAndPunk ...great pic ✊🏻👍🏻
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Ian and 5 year old Baxter Dury outside Axfords underwear and lingerie shop at 306 Vauxhall Bridge Road opposite Woolworth’s and close to Victoria Station. The photo was used for the LP New Boots and Panties and taken by Chris Gabrin 👍🏻📸 #70smusic
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
I know I've got it somewhere on vinyl 👍🏻
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
4 months
"In the wilds of Borneo and the vineyards of Bordeaux, Eskimo, Arapaho, move their body to and fro..." Ian Dury - Photo ©David Corio 👍📷 (FB rock n roll redux) #iandury #ianduryarchive #rockarchives @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Debbie Harry, 1979. Photo by Janet Macoska. Pic from classic pics in rock site 👍🏻📸 @NewWaveAndPunk @dirk7890 @Notoldjustexpe1 @JayAtkins66
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
Now that's what you call a music store eh, I'd gladly spend a few hours in there 👍😎. @NewWaveAndPunk @Kgero1965
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
6 months
Throwback to the 70s this was the Christmas present we wanted and what a game it was too #70s #Christmasgifts
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Sadly no more , Bangor Cob records not just a record shop but a big part of my life . People travelled to have a rummage through all the vinyl. They posted records all over the world too . This was 1 of the last photos before it closed . #vinylcommunity
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
28 days
My wife and myself 😍 discussing vinyl
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
4 months
Stiff Little Fingers played a Rock Against Racism concert in Brockwell Park, Brixton, September 2nd, 1979. Photo by Virginia Turbett 👍📷 What a great picture. (Post from song Smiths ) @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
7 months
Tonight's choice cartoon of the #60s and #70s has to be the Arabian knights from the #bananasplits TV series . A must of the summer tv schedule of course . #memories
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Dance ,Dance ,Dance to the radio 📻 Ian Curtis, singer of Joy Division, by Kevin Cummins, Lancashire 1979 #joydivision Shared from Manchester music fb. @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
5 months
Today's thread, single line from a song. I'll start off with. Times running out the door you're running in by Echo and the Bunnymen Nothing ever lasts forever 👍🏻✊🏻 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
#goodmorning love the #70smusic #glam Mickey Finn & Marc Bolan, 1971👍🏻📸 Pic not credited btw . @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
@NewWaveAndPunk @Kgero1965 ... Even though I like U2 it made me laugh 🤦‍♂️👍sorry if its been on here before.
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
6 months
Tonight's throwback to the #70s Mary, Mungo and Midge. Narrated by the late great Richard Baker.
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
Following on from my post regarding the Motors the other day, saw this on Facebook on another punk site to do with the Rich Kids. What a great poster and superb bands too. @NewWaveAndPunk @Kgero1965
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
A classic song that definitely defines an era of big bands and stadium fillers Eg.... Simple minds, U2, Duran Duran etc Along came the mighty Wah and the 👍 STORY OF THE BLUES. A classic in my mind together with its Sinful too and heart as big as Liverpool. 😎 @petewylie
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
The night is young The mood is mellow And there's music in my ears Say, is Vic there?..... A classic single from the sounds of my youth, trying to remember and post the singles we used to buy and swap in the school Yard. @NewWaveAndPunk @PunkRockStory
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
6 months
Who remembers Joe and Petunia? #70s adverts
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
#70s style the Chopper bike ,a great era of getting on yer bike and meeting friends . Time moves on and technology takes over but I'll never forget the great times we had as kids growing up on estates.
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
Richard Ashcroft at the Bingo, classic photo 1994 pic 📷 not credited. He's a lucky man I reckon 👍 @NewWaveAndPunk house 😁
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
The Clash, West Hollywood, CA, 1982 Photo by Bonnie Schiffman 👍🏻📸 Classic pics in rock page . @NewWaveAndPunk @TonyBeesley @dirk7890
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
10 months
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone Classic b/w era 👍🏻
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
I read it in a magazine I don't wanna see it again I threw away the magazine And looked for someone to explain I don't wanna look back I can't look around I don't wanna see it coming round. #Crocodiles ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN April 1981 from the studio album . @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
Hats off to @PaulHeatonSolo and #jacquiabbott a great gesture for us live music lovers @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
Denis, Denis, oh with your eyes so blue, Denis, Denis, I've got a crush on you... Debbie Harry - Blondie (shared from fb site rock n roll redux) #debbieharry #blondieband #debbieharryblondie @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Look sharp mate .....is she really going out with him ? 1979 #joeJackson #vinylrecords
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
8 months
C'mon feel the Noize...... #Slade Another of my fave #glamrock bands from the #70s . Pic not credited btw 👍🏻📸 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Teenage Phil 1969....What a fantastic Photograph.. #PhilLynott @NewWaveAndPunk Shared from the Brian Downey appreciation fb page . Dublin 1969 Roy Esmonde 👍🏻📸
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
#MarcBolan #TRex .....nice pic from a 60/70s fashion/music page on Facebook. No credit btw or info 👍🏻📸. @NewWaveAndPunk tough 1 to find anything else.
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner, Joy Division - Photo by Anton Corbijn, April 1980 at the filming of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' promo film, TJ Davidsons Rehearsal and Recording Studios, Knott Mill, Manchester. @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
Spotify eh, this how we ruined our vinyl years ago.... I remember most of the glam rock era stacked high on these players. 😎👍 @NewWaveAndPunk @Kgero1965
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Taid (Grandad) can we dance to the #Skids into the valley , of course Nell....she forgot the high kick but improvised as she went along . Sorry you can hear me in the background shouting not singing. #Punk and #newwave ... love her btw and she's playing her air 🎸 guitar.
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
Good morning have a great weekend. 👍😎... Not enough mirrors eh, an iconic mod photo. @NewWaveAndPunk @Kgero1965
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
4 months
"St. Valentine's Day Massacre" is a E.P. by #Mot örhead & #Girlschool . It was released on February 13th, 1981. #HappyValentinesDay @NewWaveAndPunk @dirk7890
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
B52's the early days . Picture not credited btw 📸👍🏻 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
All I can say is .....this is the sound of the suburbs.....and you have to be a member of course 👍🏻✊🏻 #punk #NEWWAVE . Repressed ltd edition white vinyl . @NewWaveAndPunk #NowPlaying
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
7 months
If you know this bunch then we're the same age ish . #60s and #70s cartoons 😁 Ant hill Mob
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
The pleasure seekers #SuziQuatro 1967 in #NYC pic not credited btw 👍🏻📸 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
The hair, the image a great photo of Mac in the 80s 👍😎. I remember a solo gig where he shouted out Elnett hairspray was the best. @NewWaveAndPunk @Kgero1965 @ScotsPostPunk @MarxToProveIt65 @Andysmi53830201 @de_generated
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
"Are you ready Steve?" Blockbuster - The Sweet Glam Thursday...... (Shared from the Rock N Roll redux page fb) 👍🏻✊🏻 #blockbuster #thesweet @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Muhammad Ali he was so cool he had a record player in the car not too sure how it sounded. Probably stationary id say was the best way to hear the songs. Pic not credited btw 👍🏻📸 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
"Somebody I never met, but in a way I know... Didn't think that you could get so much from a picture show... " Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2 @NewWaveAndPunk (Pic shared from fb site rock n roll redux) #DanDonovan #donletts #mickjones
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Skateboard..... #MarcBolan #TRex London. Classic pic 👍🏻📸. No credit btw on photo. @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
The king of cool . #SteveMcQueen
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Keep music live and kicking and get down to the independent shops 👍🏻✊🏻🖤. Feel the warmth of an album and great to see the cover , lyrics etc . What more can I say .
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
Well, well eh a pure gem of the school disco 1979 and high flying kicks was the style, Albert Tatlock we sang and shouted and we all dreamed we'd be TV Stars 1 day 😁. @NewWaveAndPunk @PunkRockStory @GCPunkNewWave
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
The Undertones, 1980, Photo by © Syd Shelton 📸👍🏻 @NewWaveAndPunk (From Song Smiths fb site ) Classic photo
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Vinyl records conversation in my house goes something like this .
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Don't have much information on this pic btw 👍🏻📸.
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Following on from playing the Buzzcocks at Mudshark records Bangor yesterday.... What do I get ... vinylrecords of course 😊 Singles going steady. #NowPlaying @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Debbie Harry, 1978. Photo by Mick Rock. #Blondie A great photo 👍🏻 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
#thewho 1966 Photo by Philippe Le Tellier🎶🎵👍🏻📸. (Classic pics in rock ) @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
#CompilationFriday , today there are 3 cds to choose your top 3 or more tracks ? I reckon nice and simple for me. The first 3 tracks just stand out on cd 1. No more heroes Alternative Ulster Into the Valley 👍😎 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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#warriors 1979 an iconic film and a great soundtrack, probably the best scene in the film, the fight with the baseball furies. @NewWaveAndPunk @Kgero1965 @ScotsPostPunk @MarxToProveIt65 @Andysmi53830201 @de_generated @fredfenackerpan @dickidot09 @owenjonny
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
Following on from the #Glamrock Tuesday post last week with Slade.❤️🎸🎶🎵 #70s The Sweet are in town tonight playing a gig , what's their opening song ?
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
"Friends say it's fine, friends say it's good, everybody says it's just like Robin Hood..." Marc Bolan - T-Rex rock n roll redux FB page. Great stuff 👍🏻✊🏻 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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Malcolm Mclaren at a ticket office, 1979. Siouxsie and the Banshees,Rainbow theater. Buzzcocks Motorhead etc 👍🏻 (Shared from British old photographs site) @NewWaveAndPunk @Notoldjustexpe1 @dirk7890
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
6 months
Throwback to the 70s tonight 🎯 The Party seven bitter Double Diamond John player special no 6 .
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
4 months
Called in today at Mudshark records in Bangor. £200 quid for this album btw 🥺 #SiouxsieandtheBanshees . No I didn't buy it btw ,left the shop in shock
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
#jetblack ✊🏻🖤🐀🐀 Rip from the #3vinylrecords group ,I'm sure everyone on on our group would like to express their sincere condolences. @StranglersSite
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
And a load of cds, vinyl and other musical memorabilia 🙄 @NewWaveAndPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
I thought I shared a good picture, this is even better 👍🏻✊🏻
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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The Clash's Paul Simonon and artist, journalist and political activist Caroline Coon circa 1976/77. (Fb Rock N Roll redux page) #carolinecoon #paulsimonon #theclash #PoliticalActivist #punkrock #punk @NewWaveAndPunk @dirk7890 @Notoldjustexpe1
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
3 years
#CompilationFriday tonight comes courtesy of a no more heroes punk compilation cd, top 3 if you care to join in. So many good tunes on cd 1 I'm going for something different. X Ray spex Plastic Bertrand Department S. @NewWaveAndPunk @Kgero1965 @ScotsPostPunk
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
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Just liked this ,for us of a certain age .
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
2 years
Debbie Harry....pic not credited btw 📸👍🏻
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
6 months
The Bay City Rollers go on you know deep down you were a fan 😂 #70sMusic #memories #Shangalang
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Michael Williams (Mikey)
1 year
Keep on rocking and rolling....have a great weekend,age is just a number ✊🏻👍🏻😁
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