All the Young Dudes

All the Young Dudes

 

Do you remember

Way back in the day

There we all were

Just swanning around

In those café bars with

Nothing to do and

Nowt much to say but

Not a care in the world

Taking bets on that

French cigarette smoke

Just hanging around

Kind of a silvery grey

Loitering like lads

On street corners

While them hungry girls

Were doing ketamine

And slimming pills

With both feet tapping

Listening to the juke box

Playing Mott the Hoople

Feeling all of thirty-five

When we were seventeen

 

 

 

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and now at seventy wishing we were seventeen again...

"Carry the news"
we are young again, aren't we?
well, the silvery grey is too evident...so i suppose not.
you created a scene here, Neville...got us there...you are quite good at doing that.
j.

[Neville]

Darn write J...
'Boogaloo Dudes'
maybe some of the time... nah.. you are almost certainly write.. my silvery grey just don't go with my paisley pattern shirt or tie dyes anymore. Thanks for hobbling over here Jacob sir..

Neville

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Amaazzziing stuff here !
Made me think of buddy holly songs here
This could be a song write too
Great stuff

[Neville]

Thank you kindly Julie.. Many thanks indeed..

Oh' and take care out there n stay and well :)

[Lydia Shutter]

All the young dudes, carry the news, boogaloo dudes....those were the days my friend! Mott the Hoople knew what he was singing about. Not sure I want to be 17 again, but 35 would be nice. Great right....one many of us can identify with. Lydi**

[Neville]

Where would we be without those memories eh' Lydi…

The television man is crazy
read moreWhere would we be without those memories eh' Lydi…

The television man is crazy
Saying we're juvenile delinquent wrecks
Man, I need a TV when I've got T. Rex
Hey sister, you guessed, I'm a dude …..
A visit much appreciated my friend and true... Stay safe and well out there x

[Neville]

Darn it.. either the ether just gobbled up the other half of my response to you Lydi** .. or summat very weird is going on here today...

Who needs TV when ya got T Rex.... yeah I'm a dude....

Take care and stay both safe n well out there my friend,

Neville

[Lydia Shutter]

That happens a lot on this site. It's that X to the right of the comments that does it...not sure why. You stay well too, my friend. Lydi**

[Neville]

it has not always been there though, has it.....

[Lydia Shutter]

No, it is a new unwelcome addition!

[Neville]

Does anyone know anything about it? What purpose does it serve etc...💋

[Lydia Shutter]

I have no clue. It might have something to do with advertising, but I am not computer savvy enough to tell you.

[Neville]

Thanks anyway Lydi** 😎 🌎 x

[barleygirl]

This is my favorite magic carpet ride of this month! You really took me away with this one! I was all there! Hanging out . . . oh how I remember hanging out . . . just hoping for some chance encounter, some flirtation, some whiff of cologne . . . remembering each nuance for days. You captured so many popping details that paint an even more fulsome tapestry, depending on each reader's vantage point! (((BRAVO))) fondly, Margie

[Neville]

What can this old guy say other than a great BIG thank you BG.. that is one helluva accolade you just laid on me... Those were the days tho weren't they Margie... Book ordered by the way.. N x

[barleygirl]

Thank you so much for being such a true blue (& turquoise & other shades of blue) friend!

[Neville]

Pleasure Treasure.... :)

[Beccy]

The era that fascinates me the most is the late sixties, early seventies; mostly I suppose because mum and dad were part of it, and my sister and I grew up on a diet of how it was back in the day.

I vividly recall a story my dad once told me about the first ever time he introduced my mini skirted, fashionably made up mum to grandpa. "He looked at her like she was an alien," he told me, "then gave a kind of a grunt and went back to reading the paper."

I think I would quite like to have been a sixties, or even a seventies girl, the music was great and far as I can tell, the eighties and nineties were quite tame in comparison. :))

Beccy.

[Neville]

I am always grateful when you visit my friend.. and what great taste you have & true.. Had you been around in the seventies, things might well have been quite different, if you dont mind me saying so... (me and ya Dad could well have been buddies :).. Stay both safe n well dear Beccy and look after that young fella for me too :)

Neville

[Ted Kniffen]

Well Neville how I remember those days of lost youth...well, I think I remember them most days...Although half a century beyond my halcyon period...don't tell anyone, but deep inside there's a young guy screaming to get out.

Well said my friend.

[Neville]

There is in all us guys Ted and nowadays, in an increasing number of galls too …
Cheers my friend, thank you for checking in and hey, take care out there ..

Neville

[Gypsy Warrior Queen]

Your back in style and didn't even know it. Silvery fox is all the rage these days. Men and women in their twenties and thirties are all about that suave shade. Even middle-aged queens like me appreciate that classic aged perfection. So flaunt it like your twenty until it goes back in the closet for the next 30 years.

[Neville]

Bless you my Queen and truly.. I neva would have guessed .. where would I be without ya eh :)

[Robert Trakofler]

not sure I ever made it to dude status:/ wasn't a square either, just a Rob me thinks! never fit into the trends very well... always hated trends! but I sure did want to grow up fast didn't like the lack of self determination at all, was always fiercely Rob whatever that may of been back then:) well I got that self determination and oft wish I could give it back LOL... too late:(

[Neville]

How could you be anything but a Rob, Bad Bunny Robert my friend.... UR unique aint cha...Thanks for stopping by and considering my little bit o scribble.... Stay well dear friend,

Neville

[R.E. Ray]

The music was different in my part of the world, but you certainly captured the scene and mood of my younger days, Neville. It was in the American south, usually at a run-down bar on the edge of the college campus. Thanks for the trip down memory lane (though I didn't like 80s music much... then or now).

[Neville]

well two outa three aint bad... many thanks indeed R.E .. I have some very fond memories of a run down bar in Baton Rouge, yes sir.. some very fond memories indeed... Funny too, the 80's music was largely not to my taste either... Have a nice day ya hear.....

Neville

[Gee]

Great tune and memories.
Platform shoes, long hair, baggy trousers with side pockets and not a care in the world.
Thanks for a trip down memory lane Neville.
Hope you are well.

[Neville]

could be a lot worse my friend.. many thanks and hope you and the gang are all well in MK :)

[Carolynn]

Times - they are a changing... I remember as you do feeling 35 at the ripe old age of 17. I wonder if the kids of today feel the same (oh wait I have two daughters....of course they do!!) :)

[Neville]

I am quite sure it is a universal law.... many thanks my friend for considering these scribbles... Neville