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| Pans People Sue |
It’s Sunday and while listening to the radio some guy was asked, who was his bedroom wall poster crush and within a second, he blurted out “Pans People”. I have to agree but I did not have the poster but from the early 1970’s onwards, I had the crush. I have decided that Sunday on this blog will become ‘Crush Sundays’ and we will start with the aforementioned Pans People.
It was a Pans People thing by time they became Legs & Co the crush had all but gone but for one special dancer.
It is hard for the youth of today to understand how one music show could be so important as Top of the Pops it was a big deal when we were kids. Every Thursday night especially in the long winter, nights whole families would gather around the TV see to our favourite bands, the latest chart hits, and the chart countdown.
The running joke was that dads would only look up from their newspapers and pay attention when Pans People were on the screen but wait what about us adolescent boys. The was a growing fan club there as the woman’s body became more interesting and you noticed the skimpy outfits in particular the hot pants, the shiny ones, a preference.
They danced to hits of the time when the group or singer was not available to perform on the show there were very few videos. The videos killed off the dance troupes like Pans People who later turned into Legs & Co. You had to have a favourite according to mythology and it just so happen I did, Susan ‘Sue’ Menhenick. She join the group in 1974 just at the point my attitude to the opposite sex really changed.
I think it was because she was new and I remember her hairstyle was shorter than the others a sleek look that did it for me. If I think back to them dancing to some hits, Sue is the only one I can remember. It helped she was 17 years old on her debut, I was 14, within my lust range I thought. She was high catching, a stand out. I was happy most males were lusting after ‘Babs’ she with the boobs it mend I was in a smaller exclusive club.
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