I am currently restricted to accessing Blogger from a tablet rather than a proper computer. This is only a problem because of my technical incompetence which among other things is preventing me from replying to comments.
In which context, can I say two things. Firstly that Yuri Gagarin must surely have been among the most famous people in the world in 1961. Secondly that I met Ronnie Cash - author of the rhyme about the first man in space referred to above - about a dozen or so years after 'The Young Ones' came out. Our school was very close to, and had links with, the studios in which the film was made. As a result we did a stage version as our school play with support and input from Mr Cass. Sadly I was too callow to ask him for the secret of his inspiration for songs about cosmonauts.
So impressed was he that we went on to try out a musical version of 'Midsummer Nights Dream' which he had just written and of which he had high hopes of a West End production. Unfortunately for him the new work didn't prove as robust to being mangled by a bunch of sixth formers as a plot about a youth club putting on a show. And that was despite your bloggist giving the world his Flute the Bellows Mender, in what remains his last stage performance to date.
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