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The Croquet championship standings in TAAB's St Cleves's Chronicles back page LOL

I once read an interview with Jon Anderson of Yes, who expressed great admiration for the Brazilian soccer player Pele!

Other than that, nothing.

Edited by cstack3 - March 30 2025 at 23:07

I have it on very good authority…….cough…….that Gentle Giant named

themselves after Leeds Utd and Juventus centre half John Charles……….

Edited by pauldunhill - March 30 2025 at 13:29

Many have disagreed with me, but I consider Cream to be proto-prog. Cream's "Anyone for Tennis?" is not Prog, but I still want to mention it. Here's a fun TV performance with them from about 1968 with the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB2f6-U72Zk

Godley & Creme - This Sporting Life

Lewian wrote:

From the Wikipedia page of Ralf Hütter, Kraftwerk:

Hütter is an enthusiastic cycling
fan, a fact reflected in some of the band's work. It was widely claimed
that, when he was on tour, the group's bus would drop off Hütter 100
miles away from the next venue and he would cycle the rest of the way, a
story that Hütter later confirmed. The band members took up cycling when recording the album The Man-Machine in the late 1970s. Ralf Hütter had been looking for a new form of exercise. The single "Tour de France"
includes sounds that follow this theme, including bicycle chains, gear
mechanisms and the breathing of the cyclist. At the time of the single's
release Ralf Hütter tried to persuade the rest of the band that they
should record a whole album based around cycling. At the time this did
not happen, but the project eventually was released as Tour de France Soundtracks in 2003.

Hütter was involved in a serious cycling accident in May or June 1982, during the initial period of recording for the 1986 album Electric Café. He was in a coma as a result. Karl Bartos
claimed the first thing Hütter said when he awoke from his coma was
"Where is my bicycle?", a story Hütter later disputed in a June 2009
interview in The Guardian.

Interesting, had read that before, and I like the release. In the fictitious sports-related arena, it does remind me of the faux backstory for Martin Zeichnete with the Kosmischer Läufer albums (or volumes) titled "The secret cosmic music of the East German Olympic Program" that I shared earlier in this topic. Seems that may well have inspired this "backstory" by the actual creator of KL. I think the cat has been out of the beanbag race's bag on that for many years now.

Originally posted by <a href=https://www.kosmischerlaufer.com/biography/ target=_blank rel=nofollow>https://www.kosmischerlaufer.com/biography/</a>

https://www.kosmischerlaufer.com/biography/ wrote:

]In East Germany in the early 1970’s Martin Zeichnete worked as a sound editor for DEFA, (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), the state-owned film studio. Like many young East Germans of the time he would listen furtively to West German radio at night and became infatuated with the Kosmische Musik or ‘Krautrock’ epitomised by the likes of Kraftwerk, Neu! and Cluster emerging from his neighbouring country. Martin, a keen runner, hit upon the idea of using the repetitive, motorik beats of this new music as a training aid for athletes. He thought it could benefit the mind as well as the body with the pulsing, hypnotic music bringing focus. A ‘borrowed’ prototype of Andreas Pavel’s Stereobelt showed Martin the technology to provide music on the move already existed and could easily be adapted for runners.

After sharing his concept with colleagues Martin was taken from his studio to East Berlin, quizzed by the authorities about his ideas and, fearing the worst, was surprised to find himself put to work by the Nationales Olympisches Komitee immediately. Installed in a cold Berlin studio with the few electronic instruments the state could supply, (Martin asked for a Moog but was refused), he began one of the strangest journeys in music. Known to the government as State Plan 14.84L, Martin and his fellow musicians informally called it ‘Projekt Kosmischer Läufer’ (Cosmic Runner).

For the next 11 years Martin would be spirited to Berlin to work on tracks with little notice. He created hours of music fusing traditional rock instruments with synthesizers, early drum computers, tape slicing and looping techniques he and his engineer formulated themselves. His output included tracks for running at various paces, warm up pieces, ‘ambient’ music to play in gyms during training and pieces for artistic gymnastic routines.

Did anyone mention Marathon by Rush?

fredyair wrote:

Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports

Hi,

Even better ... take a look at the folks that play in that album ... a total far out treat, and they all had fun, getting that motor to start!

Gong - 'Continental Circus' - motor cycle racing

Robert Wyatt - 'Team Spirit'

Robert Calvert - 'Cricket Star'

wasn't Wakeman's White Rock based on the winter olympics?

From the Wikipedia page of Ralf Hütter, Kraftwerk:

Hütter is an enthusiastic cycling fan, a fact reflected in some of the band's work. It was widely claimed that, when he was on tour, the group's bus would drop off Hütter 100 miles away from the next venue and he would cycle the rest of the way, a story that Hütter later confirmed. The band members took up cycling when recording the album The Man-Machine in the late 1970s. Ralf Hütter had been looking for a new form of exercise. The single "Tour de France" includes sounds that follow this theme, including bicycle chains, gear mechanisms and the breathing of the cyclist. At the time of the single's release Ralf Hütter tried to persuade the rest of the band that they should record a whole album based around cycling. At the time this did not happen, but the project eventually was released as Tour de France Soundtracks in 2003.

Hütter was involved in a serious cycling accident in May or June 1982, during the initial period of recording for the 1986 album Electric Café. He was in a coma as a result. Karl Bartos claimed the first thing Hütter said when he awoke from his coma was "Where is my bicycle?", a story Hütter later disputed in a June 2009 interview in The Guardian.

Edited by Lewian - February 28 2025 at 09:55

Jared wrote:

richardh wrote:

Yep as a Wolverhampton Wanderers fan I can indeed concur that sport sucks! In general the EPL is about money and the clubs are nearly owned by massive foreign concerns who have little interest in the history or the fans that made the game what it is. Youngsters support the money made teams and think its real. Yes I am very bitter about it. No joy no fun unless you support the fake success that is around.

I will see your Wolves shirt and raise it to a Leicester one... we have spent the last 2-3 seasons caught in the eye of the FFP storm and I fear for our future over the next 5 or so seasons as a consequence... you don't want to get me started.

You 'win'

Edited by Jared - February 28 2025 at 04:25

Atavachron wrote:

...

Babe Ruth - First Base

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richardh wrote:

...

Anyway the obvious one is:

Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

...

Yep as a Wolverhampton Wanderers fan I can indeed concur that sport sucks! In general the EPL is about money and the clubs are nearly owned by massive foreign concerns who have little interest in the history or the fans that made the game what it is. Youngsters support the money made teams aand think its real. Yes I am very bitter about it. No joy no fun unless you support the fake success that is around.

Anyway the obvious one is:

Roy Harper - When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

such a quaint old game

Does Bob Dillon - Hurricane count? It was about a boxer that was imprisoned falsely. Spawned a great film with Denzil Washington.

Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports

Last Eleven by Big Big Train is inspired by cricket

Edited by Hrychu - February 27 2025 at 16:33

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