Ashes to Ashes

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YFM: Gordon Brown to tune of "Golden Brown" LOL!!! [Although I can't see the Party adopting it, given that the song's about heroin!]

I'm a couple of years older the Phil Glenister and a year younger than Robert. Like PG, I was working in a film company in Wardour St in the early 80s, so could well have met him in passing. Mind you, he'd have been a spotty 18 year old and I wouldn't have given him the time of day, then. How times change - now it would be the other way round!

The 80s in London were interesting - or they were for me, anyway. It was quite sordid, over the top and a selfish time (being the height (or depth, depending on your viewpoint) of Thatcherite Britain). Coppers were a lot like Gene and his crew - I went out with a DS in the Sweeney and, although he was lovely to me, I wouldn't have wanted to be arrested by him!

Shaz's clothes are pretty close to what a lot of people were wearing back then. I was never convinced about Alex's clothes in the last two series, though - a woman DI would have 'power dressed'. I remember having quite well-cut suits, and it was a time of the 'Sloan Rangers' - collars turned up, silk shirts, well-cut chinos and loafers. Well, in the circles I moved in, anyway!

Sorry about the rambling - all this talk of the 80s sent me down memory lane!