"remember when when we thought we had forever/now we're not so sure.... city cowboys/live for now boys/tomorrow's never gonna come"
But hang on through the washed-out sub-"Maggie Mae" of the The Likely Lads movie intro theme for (at 3.38 mins) a delicious squiggle of into-the-Future synth,just as the camera cuts away from the Second World War black-and-whitefootage to the full-color 1973 Brutalist cityscape of Newcastle-upon-Tyne....
Later: a scene ofworking class slums being cleared, including Terry and Bob's beloved pub The Fat Ox...
"I've just seen my past bulldozed away," says a distraught, bedraggled-with-ale Bob to wife Thelma. "Do you see this brick? It's my house - it survived the Blitz but not the march of Time"
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