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Let's spread some musical misinformation

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-Asdfgh- said:
In 50 years 'blues' will just be a name as no one will remember what the word means. It will render many songs baffling to future generation, and the name of the Dutch band 'Shocking Blue' even more so as the only colour left will be grey. To be fair, blue was actually only invented in 1937 by Disney, as evidenced by all the movies prior to that. As can be seen in British movies in the 1950s, Britain was so poor after WW2 it still couldn't afford colour, and colour wasn't available in Yorkshire until 1968. They'll barely miss it there. It's why the blues revolution of the 1960s was such a late comer to Yorkshire as they didn't know what this mythical 'blue' was, and disbelieved tales of blue things and stones that rolled in London as tall tales brought on by taking 'LDS' as opposed to good, traditional things like Tetley's (tea and/or beer).

Of course, 1968, blue arrived and it was known as the "Summer of by 'eck". When women wore skirts so short you could see their ankles and men and women didn't always have a chaperone when stepping out.

That was the year that brought 'The Yorkshire Mick Jagger', Jake Thackeray to the fore.
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So the Union Jack only got its blue colour in 1937. :D
 
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Jay2U said:
So the Union Jack only got its blue colour in 1937. :D
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No, it was the grey, white and grey until 1953 when we could finally afford to buy colour for the Queen's coronation. Only the USA could afford colour in the period 1937-45, and only American aid to Europe post-WW2 allowed the French to get the tricolour in 1948 as before it was just shades of Gallic grey. So how fitting that as the Queen celebrates the Jubilee we hear that colours are being withdrawn again so she can spend the last years of her reign in traditional black-and-white again!
 
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-Asdfgh- said:
No, it was the grey, white and grey until 1953 when we could finally afford to buy colour for the Queen's coronation. Only the USA could afford colour in the period 1937-45, and only American aid to Europe post-WW2 allowed the French to get the tricolour in 1948 as before it was just shades of Gallic grey. So how fitting that as the Queen celebrates the Jubilee we hear that colours are being withdrawn again so she can spend the last years of her reign in traditional black-and-white again!
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Note, even for the Americans in 1937-45, colour was phased in gradually so as not to scare people too much. This is why if you watch Band of Brothers, everything seems a bit muted, as this is authentic to the period, full colour only being achieved just after WW2. Even then, colour was only widely available above the Mason-Dixon line, which is why many blues artists moved to Chicago in the 1940s, so as to be able to access the Purest Blue. The Love and Rockets song of the same name celebrates when blue was first shipped to the UK in a ship from New York to Bristol in early 1953. Obviously, they sent the red to Liverpool, and the green via Glasgow. They wanted to split it up to avoid shipping accidents and too much brown too early.
 
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-Asdfgh- said:
Note, even for the Americans in 1937-45, colour was phased in gradually so as not to scare people too much. This is why if you watch Band of Brothers, everything seems a bit muted, as this is authentic to the period, full colour only being achieved just after WW2. Even then, colour was only widely available above the Mason-Dixon line, which is why many blues artists moved to Chicago in the 1940s, so as to be able to access the Purest Blue. The Love and Rockets song of the same name celebrates when blue was first shipped to the UK in a ship from New York to Bristol in early 1953. Obviously, they sent the red to Liverpool, and the green via Glasgow. They wanted to split it up to avoid shipping accidents and too much brown too early.
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Prince's father worked in the mid-West distribution centres for colour around 1947 and 'sequestered' lots of red and blue, although failed to 'borrow' any green. Hence Prince's big hit was 'Purple Rain' not 'Brown Rain' as it could so easily have been. Peter Gabriel's song 'Red Rain' imagines a scenario in which Prince's father only got the red.
 
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The ocean is only green because back when colour was first invented they were shipping the colours across the ocean to different countries when ships carrying the blue colour and yellow collided trying to pass one another in that creek that became the panama canal. They both sunk and the colour leached out into the ocean. It also caused the govt of the day to have to dig a moat around those ships because they couldn't move them. That moat is now called the Panama Canal.
 
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Leigh Semmens said:
The ocean is only green because back when colour was first invented they were shipping the colours across the ocean to different countries when ships carrying the blue colour and yellow collided trying to pass one another in that creek that became the panama canal. They both sunk and the colour leached out into the ocean. It also caused the govt of the day to have to dig a moat around those ships because they couldn't move them. That moat is now called the Panama Canal.
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It's why the Mediterranean is still blue - they built a boom across the straits of Gibraltar and kept it a lovely grey until France decided to dump lots of blue in it to celebrate the creation of the EEC.
 

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