Anyone remember The Teenage Show from the late 50s in the Gaumont? Compulsory for increasingly hormonal teenagers. There was a sort of male prowling at the interval, which consisted of various groups of us in unregimented lines, feigning disinterest in the still seated girls. The aforementioned females however didn’t have to feign their disinterest….it was genuine! But I digress, the band that (Were they bands in the 50s…or groups?)..the group that I recall most distinctly were The Dominoes. Sadly I remember them so well because every single time they hit the stage a chorus of boos would resound through the auditorium, and not stop until they’d left. Ergo we never got a chance to find out if they were any good as nobody ever heard them!! If any band could be called the most popular at the time, it would have been The Sons Of Adam, fronted by my old St Joseph’s classmate Bernard Poyser…great version of Benny Spellman’s Fortune Teller, but I suppose pipped at the fame post by Amen Corner. Weird to think that when we’re dodging the crazed crowds on the ground floor of Primark, we’re in what was the Gaumont doing a 21st century version of The Teenage Show prowl and below in the men’s department, we stroll around a much changed and unrecognizable Top Rank, where ten years after The Teenage Show I was still on the prowl.
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