A teenager in the 60's.

[Jim Hardie]

Yes Jim Hardie you are of course right. It was more like five shillings to see bands like The Who & try & see someone like Rod Stewart for under about $150nowadays. I don't think even the all nighters were even a pound were they? As I said we really were in the right place at the right time sort of thing wern't we? Those days really were the best & the music has never been as good since then, so much so that I often hear my grandkids listening to a song WE used to listen to & they don't believe me when I say "that came out when I was a teenager". The Mojo club (King Mojo Club) was only open for about three years but hey it's still talked, about written about, all these years later which says a lot doesn't it?

 

I think 15/- for the Ike and Tina Turner all nighter was the most he ever charged. I really regret not going to that one.

[stpetre]

I think 15/- for the Ike and Tina Turner all nighter was the most he ever charged. I really regret not going to that one.

 

I forgot how much it was for the Hollies who were at number one with 'I'm Alive', when they were at the Mojo in July 1965. Then there was Jimi Hendrix in 1967.

[Jim Hardie]

I forgot how much it was for the Hollies who were at number one with 'I'm Alive', when they were at the Mojo in July 1965. Then there was Jimi Hendrix in 1967.

 

It might have been 6/- or 7/6 for the Hollies. I think it might have been a Sunday night.

I missed Hendrix, another big regret.

[stpetre]

It might have been 6/- or 7/6 for the Hollies. I think it might have been a Sunday night.

I missed Hendrix, another big regret.

 

The Hollies was a Sunday evening. I missed the Jimi Hendrix one also and I only lived ten minutes walk away. Not the he was unheard of in early 1967-just before the Mojo closed- as he had hits: 'Hey Joe', 'Purple Haze' and 'The Wind Cries Mary' by then. Perhaps an all-nighter or ticket only.

[Janet Olsen]

I spent so much time at the Mojo I don't think I missed any of the ones you mentioned. Just think back to the bands we had there & we were sooo lucky. I paid over a hundred dollars to see Joe Cocker here in Brisbane years ago. The Who, Rod Stewart, Small Faces, Spencer Davis, the list is endless isn't it?

Not only the bands though in those times, the dancing, the fashion not to mention the Motown music.

There were so many good local bands as well which when playing locally got a good following. So much talent around Sheffield at that time.

[Asaw]

Did anyone see Chris Farlowe on Jools 25 yrs. So sad for the guy suffering with Spina Bifida But still a great singer.

 

Last time I saw the Hollies they were playing to a couple of dozen people at the Fiesta.

 

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One special song Scot McKenzie San Francisco

 

Remember going on holiday to Rhyl and having a transistor radio attached to my ear listening to Radio Caroline playing San Fransisco all the time.

[Padders]

Did anyone see Chris Farlowe on Jools 25 yrs. So sad for the guy suffering with Spina Bifida But still a great singer.

 

Last time I saw the Hollies they were playing to a couple of dozen people at the Fiesta.

 

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Remember going on holiday to Rhyl and having a transistor radio attached to my ear listening to Radio Caroline playing San Fransisco all the time.

 

ha ha. remember the transistor radio. spent hours listening to mine. they must have been the internet of the 50s 60s. what an invention.

[choogling]

Yes Jim Hardie you are of course right. It was more like five shillings to see bands like The Who & try & see someone like Rod Stewart for under about $150nowadays. I don't think even the all nighters were even a pound were they? As I said we really were in the right place at the right time sort of thing wern't we? Those days really were the best & the music has never been as good since then, so much so that I often hear my grandkids listening to a song WE used to listen to & they don't believe me when I say "that came out when I was a teenager". The Mojo club (King Mojo Club) was only open for about three years but hey it's still talked, about written about, all these years later which says a lot doesn't it?

 

i never went to the mojo club, wrong side of town for me at the time, but I used to work in a club called the esquire in the old leadmill building near to the tram sheds.later I was a regular at the heatbeat club above the silver blades on London road.The sixties and seventies are good to look back on but not so great at the time,power cuts strikes crap wages etc.

[stephen 7]

Hey downsunder we led similar lives spent too much time in the birley hotel listening to live bands and getting ******,married in a register office with a shotgun behind me watching the owls or the blades , lived in oz now for 25yrs but the heart is still in sheffield thats why im on this forum every day

[slotter47]

Great stories guys,Padders who do I know you as ?