Quote Originally Posted by donsdaft View Post
I just realised 1971 was 50 years ago.
A great year - apart from the family life-adjustment needed - with that Dons team the best we had until a dozen years later just falling short of winning the title. Electric Warrior, Who’s Next, the Allmans at Fillmore East, Deuce, Sticky Fingers, Every Picture Tells A Story, Imagine, Tapestry and a hunner other unaffordable records released.

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!” said Wordsworth about it as, on the way back from a Barrow away win at Workington, with a bit of tasty action with the Cleator Moor Boot Boys en route, he put two bob in the jukebox in the Grasmere chipper and selected Brown Sugar on repeat.