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Information from her novel and what a great time to be born the swinging sixties. Even thought she was trying to fit in you could be an individual and she went where ever she pleased having a mother like hers one of a kind wanting her daughter to experience the world for herself.
 

  Kim's Brother & Photo of Kim 1970
Her brother had an artistic flair like their mother it was in their DNA.
Carried through to the next generation and to the next on and on   
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HER BROTHER WAS TRAINING TO BE A GRAPHIC ARTIST AND KNEW THE MANAGER AT THE MARQUEE. HE DID SOME POSTERS FOR THE CLUB . BEHIDE HER IN THIS PHOTO THAT'S ONE OF HIS DRAWING. HE WAS INVITED TO THE ROLLINGS STONES PARTY AT THE MARQUEE IN 1971 HE INVITED HIS SISTER KIM AND SOME FRIENDS THAT STORIES IN HER NOVEL.



A GUY KIM WAS SEEING WAS PART OF THE ROLLING STONES TOUR.
HE INVITED HER TO GO WITH HIM. IT WAS 
1975 DID SHE GO?

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Sorry you missed the 60s swinging london
through the lens of snapper philip townsend
Gavin Murphy it looks like he lives here in Ottawa too
 1966 Colin Her First Boyfriend 
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Colin her first real boyfriend, slim in stature had gone to college, looked a little like Brian Jones from the Rolling Stones, he had the same haircut and blonde hair. He'd been a mod and a flower child and vacationed in Morocco with some of his friends, hanging out there for a while. For Valentine’s Day he sent her a card, a funny one. When her mum read it to her, she didn't get the joke and didn’t like it one little bit and was very upset. Her mother having a great sense of humor thought it was hilarious and was laughing but not her. It wasn't romantic with loving words and thought he was being mean and wasn't impressed at all, of course he was trying to be funny with his girlfriend. If she didn't understand the situation, she would take it out of context. Her mum tried to explain but her not getting it and went to her bedroom pouting, so, so sensitive. If it didn't fit into her way of her thinking, then it didn't make sense to this young autistic girl. He did give her a very large romantic birthday card saving grace trying to make it up to her with loving words and signed it all my love Colin, she liked that card a lot better.

The reason they split up she wouldn't give out and he wanted to go to bed with her. They did try it once when staying at his place and she wouldn't take her clothes off and let him come near her. She wasn't ready to share her body with him or anyone and there was a reason for this. One was, remember going on holiday in 1964 and how those boys talked about her girlfriend because she was free with her body and wasn't impressed by their comments and thought they were being disrespectful. She was very loyal to her friend but unfortunately as she found out later that wasn't the case the other way around.  Being a lot younger than her years and kept pushing him away giggling with her nervous energy, it felt strange having a fella all over her. She didn't like it at all make her extremely uncomfortable. He did say it was too frustrating for him dating her. Colin was five years older and the way she looked, her big doe brown eyes, her pouty lips, her hair now blonde and longer and started wearing hair pieces and all that makeup she hid behind. She looked like a baby doll, but she didn't want to be played with. she was too young and just turned sixteen he wanted sex and she wasn't ready and not wanting to  have anything to do with groping and kissing.

 

That time in the 60's is wasn’t looked upon as bad if you were young and going out with an older fella. Most girls being free with their bodies because of the pill, after all it was the swinging 60s. Colin was nice about it and said if he ever married and had a little girl, he would want her to be like her. She thought that was a strange thing to say but thought it was a compliment in a way. It did piss her off but as usual went on her merry way,  disconnected not knowing any better and still figuring this world out. They parted as friends but never heard or saw him again. It was difficult understanding others and I'm sure it was difficult for others understanding her. Having a spirit like hers, pretty and wasn't threatening; virginal, seemingly vulnerable. As she matured you better respect her because she did have a temper when frustrated if a fella was rude to her. She didn’t really need the opposite sex  it just seemed all these men came after her. It did get her out of the house she loved dressing up and could be someone else. Never wanting to be around her father and her younger brother didn't help the situation. It did get better with her brother as she got older and she had lost her temper before with him and flew off the handle and he knew not to piss his sister off ever again.........

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Mickie Most Record Producer 

His Brother Dave Most

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She knew Mickie Most's younger brother Dave Hayes known as Dave Most and he was like a big brother to her. His girlfriend Barbra took her under her wing in 1965 when she started her apprenticeship working in Harrow at Sopers, the big department store.  They would take her to many  places and she met some famous people.  She was like a fish out of water but because she was different, attractive and shy, that got her noticed and a lot of attention from fellas and she couldn't understand why? She was oblivious to how others saw her, very  unique  and marched to the beat of her own drum. Dave's girlfriend would tell some great stories of the people in the music industry; they lived in a completely different world and some became very famous down the road.  What a great time living in that era, the swinging sixties in Great Britain. 

Mickie Most  A Family Man 

Mickie Most, Good Looking, Great Hair, Down to Earth, Extremely Talented,  he had more number one hits than any other producer. He was a family man with good morals, had a Beautiful wife who he adored and loved very much. He produced many talented pop stars, Mickie Most one of the most famous record producers in the U.K. If you were brought up in the 50s' 60s and 70s in Great Britain you may remember him on the seventies, TV talent show (The New Faces) he became a household name as a judge like today Simon Cowell on American Idol.

In the 60s Mickie produced such hits as (The House of the Rising Sun) by the Animals, came out in 1964. 👍 She has that info on another page, her friend was a big fan of Eric Burdon, his distinct, powerful voice and their single was number one. She remembers at her friend's birthday party (The House of the Rising Sun) was playing when leaving her home very upset and she never saw her friend again. Mickie Most discovered many talented acts who also had hit records; Herman's Hermits was one of them (I'm Into Something Good) went straight to number one and known for their other hit record (I'm Henry The 8th). Mickie was Lulu's record producer, Lulu was a Scottish lass. Her dad a proud Scotsman liked Lulu, a phenomenal singer,  because she came from Glasgow where he was born. She became an actress, you may remember her in (To Sir With Love) with Sidney Poitier and  came out in 1967, a great movie of that time.

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Lulu singing at the end of the movie, her school was never like that. She does have a story about her homeroom teacher the last year of school. He would let the girls in her class play truant and finding out why many years later why.

Peter so cute  and adorable singing Mrs Brown You Have a Lovely Daughter? she loved his happy go lucky songs and that great smile.  Being interviewed on Huckabee and was wonderful seeing him, even today he looks great, so down to earth like some of the British blokes she used to know. She misses London, the atmosphere and the Pubs, the people, it has changed like most places. She's thankful she was around in that era, some incredible times and if she knew then  what she knows now my goodness things would have been different but she was clueless  and her destiny was mapped out differently. 

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On This is Your Life Dave is sitting behind

his brother Mickie Most and his Wife Chris 

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The Man Who Inspired Simon  Cowell...

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It was a shame to find out he had passed away from lung cancer in 2003. He was an remarkable  man with a vision and started off his music career working at the  2 I 'S Bar in Solo. She has some wonderful stories in her novel.  Dave a great person who was very kind to her  also  passed later at the age of 64 in 2010   May They Both Rest in Peace.

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