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Growing Up With Vince & Jeremy

We grew up in the UK from 1970 to 1990. This show is all about the two of us looking back and putting bits of our shared past under the microscope, from the early ‘80s ‘Protect and Survive’ /Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear panic, to the theme music from The Incredible Hulk; from Wimpy Burgers to wimpy Orac from Blake’s 7; from the Falklands War to Falco’s Rock Me Amadeus. We look back with fondness and bafflement and sometimes with abject disbelief at what life was like when we were growing up.

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04 The Clive Dunn of Glam Rock - 1970s

September 06, 2025 • Rainbow Alley Productions • Season 1 • Episode 4

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Episode 4: The Clive Dunn of Glam Rock (August 24th 2017)

'You Wouldn't Like Us When We're Angry'

This episode: 1970’s SPECIAL!

As Operation Yewtree closes in on The Wombles of Wimbledon Common, Jeremy and Vince confidently (if unwisely) don flared trousers, platform heels, pseudo-silk kimonos and glitter face paint in celebration of “the decade of lurid wallpaper, silly hairstyles and burly men warming their hands around braziers,” to quote lurid and burly historian Dominic Sandbrook.

Jeremy wonders if TV’s Dr David Banner (aka The Incredible Hulk) has the worst employment history of any medical professional in history; Vince unpicks a dastardly scheme by ‘Scrumpy ‘n Western’ cider-drinking yokel-funsters The Wurzels to thwart a proposal by a taskforce from the Environmental Agency and North Wiltshire County Council to tackle traffic congestion in Swindon Town; and both men express sadness and dismay at the unwaveringly tatty and unappealing kitsch that forms the vast majority of Elvis merchandising.

The artists/bands rated and/or discussed are David Essex, Jeff Wayne, The Wurzles, The Stranglers, Marc Bolan and T-Rex, Blondie, and Elvis Presley.

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Overrated Podcast Theme Tune – There It Is (Royalty Free)

Gonna Make You a Star – David Essex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms7Kx6js3SU

The Wonder of You – Elvis Presley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvvRYYoGxg

Ride a White Swan – T-Rex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAh19tms4U

Something Better Change – The Stranglers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEOzimKnEY

Heart of Glass – Blondie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_4-5RaxU

Back in the USSR – The Beatles