http://popdoctor.com Just another WorldBlogosphere.com blog Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:05:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://popdoctor.com/269/music/how-bizarre-how-bizarre/ http://popdoctor.com/269/music/how-bizarre-how-bizarre/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:05:34 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=269 When it comes to the bizarre – the 70s seemed to have a stranglehold on performing artists crying out for some kind – in fact any kind of help. Take Englebert Humperdink. Granted he had enduring talent which to this day has earned him milliions – but at what point did his manager decide that [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/269/music/how-bizarre-how-bizarre/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/266/pop-culture/elo-and-jeff-lynne-personifying-pop-music/ http://popdoctor.com/266/pop-culture/elo-and-jeff-lynne-personifying-pop-music/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:57:37 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=266 What do you get when you combine cellos, violins, woodwinds, horns and classical overtones to a stirring rock agenda? Modern Opera? Well kinda. ELO – or for the puritans – The Electric Light Orchestra. Hugely contemporary with unabashed lashings of everything from baroque to renaissance – Jeff Lynne and his wandering band of mistrals defied [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/266/pop-culture/elo-and-jeff-lynne-personifying-pop-music/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/261/pop-culture/kiss-more-than-just-lip-service-to-rock/ http://popdoctor.com/261/pop-culture/kiss-more-than-just-lip-service-to-rock/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 10:07:00 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=261 Regarded as one of the most influential rock and roll bands of all-time KISS holds honors as one of America’s top gold record champions, recording 36 albums over 32 years selling over 75 million albums worldwide. Performing at everything from the Super Bowl to the 2002 Winter Olympics , the KISS legacy continues to grow, [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/261/pop-culture/kiss-more-than-just-lip-service-to-rock/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/252/movies/what-are-your-five-iconic-70s-films/ http://popdoctor.com/252/movies/what-are-your-five-iconic-70s-films/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 00:31:56 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=252 From a Joe Ordinary’s point of view, there have been some amazing movies made. Some bizarre, some remarkable and some which simply fall into the iconic class. While every decade had them – the 70′s had a proliferation of all genre’s (at least to this Joe Ordinary’s mind anyway). From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/252/movies/what-are-your-five-iconic-70s-films/feed/ 1 http://popdoctor.com/211/television/heeyyyyyyy/ http://popdoctor.com/211/television/heeyyyyyyy/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:44:34 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=211 What was it about the sitcom – Happy Days – that made it sooooo ‘cool’. Let’s face it – when you look at the sum of its parts, the show had little going for it. Imagine going to television executives (in an era when Mannix, The Streets of San Francisco, Kojak and Kung Fu were [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/211/television/heeyyyyyyy/feed/ 1 http://popdoctor.com/204/television/nerd-and-geek-hall-of-famers/ http://popdoctor.com/204/television/nerd-and-geek-hall-of-famers/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:25:36 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=204 Nerds! As much as we probably all admit to being way too cool to ever be considered one – we all have a soft side for them. But who are your favourite nerds? While in real life – Bill Gates would probably rank right up there – on the small screen at least I’ve compiled [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/204/television/nerd-and-geek-hall-of-famers/feed/ 1 http://popdoctor.com/201/television/its-culture-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/ http://popdoctor.com/201/television/its-culture-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:10:45 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=201 60’s and 70’s television culture – does it get any better? Let’s face it – cheese sells. How else do you account for season after season of The Munsters – or Lost in Space. How in today’s currency could you even contemplate running series after series of The Brady Bunch or put up with the [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/201/television/its-culture-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/198/pop-culture/meatloaf-and-one-hell-of-an-album/ http://popdoctor.com/198/pop-culture/meatloaf-and-one-hell-of-an-album/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:38:53 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=198 ‘The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling Way down in the valley tonight . . . ‘ Could it be that the unmistakable melodic prose of Jim Steinman mixed with the bombastic style of one Marvin Lee Aday – better known to us all as ‘Meatloaf’ – afforded the world one of the [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/198/pop-culture/meatloaf-and-one-hell-of-an-album/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/157/pop-culture/which-decade-was-cooler-60s-vs-the-70s/ http://popdoctor.com/157/pop-culture/which-decade-was-cooler-60s-vs-the-70s/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:51:12 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=157 Damn – that’s a tough one! Conversation turned to this at a party held in the confines of the Doctor’s palatial residence recently – and the jury was still out 2 hours after the topic was raised. Jimmy Hendrix vs Elton John, The Beatles v the Bee Gees, the Moon Landing vs Star Wars – the lists [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/157/pop-culture/which-decade-was-cooler-60s-vs-the-70s/feed/ 2 http://popdoctor.com/151/pop-culture/air-guitar-fans-unite/ http://popdoctor.com/151/pop-culture/air-guitar-fans-unite/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:34:24 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=151 What is it about 70’s music that evokes seemingly mature men to spontaneously adopt a Fender air guitar stance amidst normally civil (yet like-minded) individuals – and women to shun their inhabitations and regail in either the Nut-Bush or encouraging their girlfriends to join them on the dance floor – simply because “I love this [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/151/pop-culture/air-guitar-fans-unite/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/145/movies/whos-your-favourite-character-from-the-future/ http://popdoctor.com/145/movies/whos-your-favourite-character-from-the-future/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 01:56:50 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=145 Meet George Jetson! His son Elroy . . . The celluloid and cartoon world is filled with characters from the future. Marvin The Martian, George Jetson, Luke Skywalker, James T.Kirk, Mork from Ork, Buck Rogers, The Great Kazoo – the list goes on and on and well, on . . . Throw in your pseudo [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/145/movies/whos-your-favourite-character-from-the-future/feed/ 0 http://popdoctor.com/142/pop-culture/70s-fads/ http://popdoctor.com/142/pop-culture/70s-fads/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 23:57:30 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=142 For some of us it was Mood Rings and Pukka Shell necklaces, others Pet Rocks or Sea Monkeys – but whatever your crime – the 70’s certainly had its fair share of fads and crazes. It was an era which didn’t descriminate either – young or old – there was always a new sub-culture just [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/142/pop-culture/70s-fads/feed/ 2 http://popdoctor.com/138/movies/the-drive-in-whatever-happened-to/ http://popdoctor.com/138/movies/the-drive-in-whatever-happened-to/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 02:42:31 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=138 Stranded at the Drive-In . . . “Branded a Fool . . . “What will they say . . . “Monday at School . . . “ Ahhhhh – the heartfelt tome of one John Travolta – who, as part of the Grease phenomenon, serenaded his beloved Sandy in a scene which featured one of [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/138/movies/the-drive-in-whatever-happened-to/feed/ 4 http://popdoctor.com/114/television/classic-tv/pay-peanuts-get-snoopy/ http://popdoctor.com/114/television/classic-tv/pay-peanuts-get-snoopy/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 00:31:11 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=114 With no offence to his owner – Charlie Brown – it’s a fair bet that amidst the multitude of Peanuts characters created by Charles Schultz – Snoopy is probably the legendary comic strip’s most famous and beloved. The ubiquitous beagle – who despite being able to walk on two legs can only communicate his thoughts [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/114/television/classic-tv/pay-peanuts-get-snoopy/feed/ 3 http://popdoctor.com/100/movies/calling-all-trekkies/ http://popdoctor.com/100/movies/calling-all-trekkies/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:59:18 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=100 “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations — to boldly go where no man has gone before.” This is where it all began. The Original Star Trek Series running roughly from 1966 through 1969, [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/100/movies/calling-all-trekkies/feed/ 6 http://popdoctor.com/97/television/tvs-favourite-dads/ http://popdoctor.com/97/television/tvs-favourite-dads/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:26:16 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=97   Last night, while getting my daily dose the Simpson’s – I found my mind wandering at right angles to the rest of the family – before proudly announcing that despite his bumbling nature – Homer was right up there with other TV dads as far as affording us advice about life. From Mike Brady [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/97/television/tvs-favourite-dads/feed/ 3 http://popdoctor.com/73/television/classic-tv/70s-sitcoms/ http://popdoctor.com/73/television/classic-tv/70s-sitcoms/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:12:09 +0000 popdoctor http://popdoctor.com/?p=73 While the 50′s and 60′s saw the birth of sitcoms such as I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners and Mr Ed – the 70′s certainly took television comedy to new highs (and lows). From programmes as diverse as Laugh-In and Love American Style right through to more traditional shows such as Laverne and Shirley, The Odd [...]]]> http://popdoctor.com/73/television/classic-tv/70s-sitcoms/feed/ 1