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Digging up the past: Colvin and the Spiders from Mars

16 Sep 05:40am

Filed under: History, Music, Politics, Seventies, Society

Reading history books about your youth makes you feel old. The discovery that archaeologists have got to work on the period you regard as your salad days makes you feel positively ancient.

Hacks have more fun: Mark Colvin interviews Rod Stewart (left, in the dacks) in the early 70s. Picture: Philip Mortlock

That’s how it was when I read this article in the London Times, about an archaeological team digging up a nineteen-seventies camping site in southern England.

The camp site opened in 1971, when I was studying in England at the age of 19. This apparently makes it (and presumably me) a fit subject for digging up and turning over. What next? Palaeontology?

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francesca says:

12:18pm | 13/02/10

acker are you mad? mark colvin would have never dressed like that. I knew him then and he was always very restrained as you would expect. Read more »
Gibbot says:

01:17pm | 16/09/09

Wheen’s ‘How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World’ is one of my favourite reads of the last few years. Thanks for the heads up. Read more »

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