(06-24-2024, 02:53 PM)BIAD Wrote: I was seven years-old and that big thing called the world rolled on by without usually tickling my attention.
But one of those times it succeeded was when Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision Song Contest of 1967 with
the ditty 'Puppet On A String'.
It wasn't the tune that caught my interest, it was what I'd heard grown-ups were calling 'daring' and even
'outrageous' about the pretty lady from Dagenham of Essex. It was Ms Shaw's scandalous act of not wearing
shoes on stage.
Clearly, the poor lass couldn't afford shoes until after she'd won the contest! Just have a look - she even had to appear on stage in the only garment she owned, which happened to be her nightie!
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake