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  1. Guinness Boy

    [Misc] Places in songs that you had a romantic view of before you saw the place in the flesh

    Home to Roy Walker and the late Bobby Ball. Bill Beaumont drank in our "work local" The Taps, which was basically a Sanchez throw out from the back of our hotel. Average house price (I just checked on Zoopla) £450,000. You could buy most of Blackpool for that and still have change for chips...
  2. Guinness Boy

    [Misc] Places in songs that you had a romantic view of before you saw the place in the flesh

    I've spent quite a while in my last job on site in next door Lytham which is quite posh. No, strike that - very posh. I used to run along the front to St Annes, but if I wanted a longer run I'd go to the border with Blackpool. You could feel and smell the change as well as seeing it. One of my...
  3. Guinness Boy

    [Misc] Places in songs that you had a romantic view of before you saw the place in the flesh

    Fair enough. Kind of increases the levels of nicheness though :lolol: I loved a lot of bands from Manchester around that time and various places in it are mentioned in those bands' songs but, perhaps because I went everywhere with the Albion in those days I never once thought of it...
  4. Guinness Boy

    [Misc] Places in songs that you had a romantic view of before you saw the place in the flesh

    This. Had an absolutely fantastic weekend there with my lad for the football when he was 11. Perfectly safe, very friendly. The thread topic is very, well, niche isn't it Icy? :lolol: The one romantic description of a place in a song that I absolutely love is in Paul Simon's Graceland - The...
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