MAY 1985: Duran Duran are storming the UK Top 40 with their Bond movie theme song & at a slightly less exotic Headingley #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand is watching the legendary Featherstone Jubilee Amateur club take on West Hull.
MAY 1989 - Aussie Rock band Midnight Oil were burning up the Top 40 with their powerful indictment of oppressed Aborigines. At The Boulevard, #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInStand saw Hull FC brutally oppressing aboriginal natives of a former Coal Mining town.
MARCH 1986 : "Out of Africa" was raking it in at the UK box office.Over on the wrong side of The Pennines, #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand watched as his #Castleford finally hit the jackpot!
ON THIS DAY : 23 MARCH 1985
While Glenn Frey was heating up the UK Top 40 with his track from "Beverly Hills Cop" over at Elland Road, #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was watching the red hot lava flow..
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JANUARY '88 Belinda Carlisle's power ballad "Heaven is a place on Earth" is top of the charts & #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand is at Headingley, which is a place on St.Michael's Lane LS6
28 March 1987. Star Trek IV :"The Voyage Home" was a fortnight away from landing in UK cinemas & #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand reports on a slice of history as Halifax made it to the Challenge Cup Final for the first time since 1956.
OCTOBER '85 :John Parr is scorching up the charts with "St.Elmo's Fire" and #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand is watching his beloved Cas scorch up the turf at Headingley.
IT'S SATURDAY MAY 5 1984,in the evening an unknown Swedish group wins the Eurovision Song Contest.Earlier,on Wembley's Hallowed Turf, Widnes' Joe Lydon garners the adulation scoring a brace of exquisite stadium shuddering tries.
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand recounts...
ON THIS VERY DAY: 11th.MARCH 1984.
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was at the Headingley Coliseum for this epic contretemps.
SEPTEMBER 1986 - "Top Gun" has gone stratospheric at UK cinemas.Over at the Odsal Coliseum,a proper blood & thunder epic unfolds before #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand
FEBRUARY '88 and Wigan "The Immortal Pie-Eaters"- are on the Road to their first of what would eventuate as 8 consecutive Challenge Cup triumphs at Wembley! #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand witnessed the pages of History unfold...
MARCH 1986 : Cliff Richard & The Young Ones had an unexpected No1 smash with their version of "Living Doll" for Comic Relief & #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand saw another unexpected smash for #Castleford, what a relief!!
FEBRUARY '88 : "Robocop" is stompin' across UK cinema screens & at (Pre- Horizon IT scandal) Post Office Road, #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand is watching some other robots stompin' around.
DECEMBER 85 - It was Nicotine Mucous Trophy Time.Talking Heads were in the Top 10 with "Road To Nowhere" & #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was on that road...
(For those who might take forensic interest; the "when they scored" in my report got somewhat badly typeset)
24 March 85 – BBC2 airs the conclusion of a two-part film The Executioner's Song, about the killer Gary Gilmore who demanded his death sentence be carried out for murders he committed in Utah.
Meanwhile #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand watched another grim tale unfold.
BUSIEST WEEKEND 1987!! Part 2 - March 1st.
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was hither & thither across Yorksher's broad acres. Culminating at Headingley for a satisfyingly brutal Saturday afternoon imbroglio.
BUSIEST WEEKEND 1987 ! Part 1 - February 28
#LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was hither & thither across Yorksher's broad acres. Firstly at Thrum Hall where Fax were on their way to eventual Challenge Cup glory at Wembley.
MARCH '84 The great stand-up comedian Alexei Sayle had an unexpected Top 40 hit. Meanwhile #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was also expecting the unexpected.
MARCH 1984... Mel Brooks " To Be Or Not To Be" was on at the flicks & a comedic record - not in the original film soundtrack stormtrooped up the Top 40. And at the Odsal Meteorite crater #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand watched a blitzkrieg reenactment.
MARCH '84 Nena & her " 99 Red Balloons 🎈 " chalked up their 3rd.week at No.1 on the Top 40 & #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand chalked up another red hot Cup tie .
FEBRUARY '84, Queen's " Radio Ga Ga " was in the Top 40
Meanwhile, #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand watched Rugby go ga ga at the dump on Doncaster Road. (York would go on to knock Castleford out in the next round)
JANUARY '86 :
Stallone's "Rocky IV" is battering cinema audiences into parting with their hard earned brass just as #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand is getting ready to throw in the towel watching another slugfest.
SEPTEMBER 1985 :
Bonnie Tyler was " Holding out for a Hero" at No.2 in the charts & in the ancient city of Jorvik, #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was holding out for some entertainment.
ON THIS DAY: FEBRUARY 15 1987
"Short Circuit" was on at the Pictures,a tale about a robot trundling about aimlessly looking lost.
Over at the Belle Vue Retirement Home, #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was watching The Residents XIII do the same for 80 minutes.
MAY 1987 - "Platoon" the brutal mud spattered portrayal of combat in Vietnam was dominating UK cinemas,meanwhile #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand was watching another brutal mud spattered classic!
ON THIS DAY: 12 FEBRUARY 1989.
Arnie was turning up the UK cinema box office with "Red Heat" & over at Belle Vue waste dump, #LeedsOtherPaper #RugbyLeague raconteur #TheManInTheStand watched Fev turn up their Blue Heat!
