Mama & Papas: “California Dreamin’” So he only goes to church when it’s cold outside? That preacher should turf him out before he rifles the poor box!ĭire Straits: “Sultans of Swing” Another overplayed, overrated number that outstayed its welcome. Some more personal stinkers (only a few of which, thankfully, lend themselves to community singing): Hearing this song makes me lose the will to live. Through the eyes of love you’ll see a thousand stars (she got wise and punched you in the face, right?) Oh, dance, dance, dance to my ten guitarsĪnd very soon you’ll know just where you are (maybe you were lost in the woods?)
They come from miles around to hear them play a melody (“they” are easily pleased)īeneath the stars my ten guitars will play a song for you (why ten anyway? Ten guitarists playing together usually sound like a mess)Īnd if you’re with the one you love, this is what you do: I have a band of men and all they is play for me (sounds like slave labour) But some fool of a radio station jock started playing it and before you could cut his throat, it was a smash. On the flip side, never to be heard, was where it belonged. Now, many of you may never have heard this song, for the very good reason that it was written by his manager in five minutes because they needed a B-side for his huge hit “Please Release Me” (another beer-soaked classic). Number one in the Puke Charts is “Ten Guitars” by Engelbert Humperdinck. I dub them “songs you can still remember when you’re smashed”. These can be heard in bars and parties up and down the land after a few people have had too much to drink, and some idiot pulls out a guitar. “I’ll probably cry!”īernard added: “It is sad but, it’s time to go.I live in New Zealand, where we have an unfortunate weakness for soppy singalong numbers. I have childcare qualifications and I’m hoping to start helping at my daughter’s school.īut the two will stay in touch, as they have formed such a close bond over the years that Bernard is now Godfather to Amy’s three-year-old daughter Amelia. Little did I know I’d still be here 11 years later, so it will be a big change when we close. I came into the shop with my mam and dad for a costume and saw they wanted Saturday staff.
She already knew Bernard as he was her family’s milkman when she was a youngster, and she applied for a Saturday job at his shop when she left school.Īmy said: “I knew him as Bernard the milkman. The shop’s closure will also mean a big change for shop worker Amy Hatfield, 27, who has worked there since the age of 16. Maskerade fancy dress shop, Bishopton Lane, Stockton, which is closing down because the owner Bernard Jackson is retiring “What’s been really popular is the gangsters, Robin Hood, Superman, the Sargeant Peppers have all gone, the masks and wigs have mostly gone.” You can’t get those anymore they were made by a London company that’s shut down now. “We’ve sold a lot already but there are still thousands of costumes left as well as a lot of the platform boots. “We’re selling everything off now and when it’s all gone we’ll call it a day. Obviously the internet is taking over now really. “Things have changed a lot over the years. We took trips to London to source material and it just grew from there. The stuff she could make, you couldn’t buy. “My mum was really good with a needle and she made loads.
We started off just hiring then realised we needed to sell too, so we did both. “We did the costumes part-time for the first few years before buying the shop. “Me and my sister decided to do costumes, just because it was a bit of a niche there wasn’t anything like it then. He said: “I was a milkman in Billingham for 33 years - I started in 1966 when I finished school and left in 1999. A costume shop owner who has been dressing Teesside up for more than two decades is closing its doors.īernard Jackson, a former milkman, has run Maskerade on Bishopton Lane in Stockton, for 25 years, after he swapped his milk float for platform boots.īernard began the business with sister Geraldine Seery, who is a silent partner, and ran it with the help of their mum Joan Jackson, who made many costumes from scratch and repaired others.īut after Joan’s death earlier this year aged 88, and Bernard himself turning 65, he decided the time had come to hang up his flares and retire.
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