Look at this. Can you believe Barney was nearly 30 years old? This photograph must have been taken in 1975!!!

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Look at this. Can you believe Barney was nearly 30 years old? This photograph must have been taken in 1975!!!

If he's 48 (or 47, or 49?) now, then he was 28 in 1985, but he looks like an 18 years old boy on this pic.
I know, in 1985, which that was apparently when that particular photo was taken, he would have been 29!!!:) He looks like a teenager for crying out loud in this picture! Anyways, I still think he looks good to be 49 (pushing 50). Another thing that's unbelievable is, you know those promo pics taken around 1996 for Electronic's album Raise the Pressure? He was 40 at the time!!!!!!!!!!!!! His voice sounda incredibly young too and I also think he's a cutie no matter how old he is.
It looks like Barn and Hooky were both momentarily suprised - their hair is standing on end! Amusing pic, thanks
CTB
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Ben wrote: It's just one of the random pics displayed at the top of this page.
It's a magazine cover from 1985 actually, but nothing says it was taken in 1985...
When you think they did the Perfect Kiss that year, I don't remember them looking so young in that video... ![]()
I still think that Steve looks almost the same now as he did in Joy Division. None of them have done too badly looks-wise when you consider the amount of late nights, long tours, drugs and alcohol (and in Steve's case, cigarettes) that they've been through! ![]()
Spotnick wrote:
Ben wrote: It's just one of the random pics displayed at the top of this page.
It's a magazine cover from 1985 actually, but nothing says it was taken in 1985...
When you think they did the Perfect Kiss that year, I don't remember them looking so young in that video...
See the poster behind Barney's head? The one with the 7 on it? That was a poster done for their NY gig in '83, so it couldn't have been taken before then. But yeah, they *do* look really young...
Looks like a photo from the same session which Mojo used a pic from of Steve, Barney and Hooky perched on a bike, back in a 2001 issue.
Was Hooky born looking 35 years old?
he always looks so much older than the others,its the beard probably..tho now Hooky and Barn look much closer in age.Steve looks much younger than the pair of them these days....
If you block out Hooky and Gillian you basically have what Franz Ferdinand base their entire 'retro to death' image on these days. I swear if you showed some clueless teenage FF fan that photo and asked if they thought Alex was looking good these days they'd say oh yes.
As for Hooky, he's got that real "A-ha Take On Me" birds nest going
Smart! :D How much of the ozone layer was eradicated to get that one regularly assembled I wonder? ![]()
[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote: Looks like a photo from the same session which Mojo used a pic from of Steve, Barney and Hooky perched on a bike, back in a 2001 issue.
That's what I was going to say when I first saw that...but you beat me to it
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Ah, well, I still have that issue (but I'll be damned if I could get my hands on the recent one with Ian on the cover...blatent attempt to get one of the UK members to send me a copy of said issue free of charge
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What about barney in his school shorts in the clip for Confusion? He looked like he was about seven and his mama dressed him...
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Tinny wrote: What about barney in his school shorts in the clip for Confusion? He looked like he was about seven and his mama dressed him...
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seventeen maybe, nothing wrong with them shorts (or at least not with the accompanying legs).
yes, us girls do like schoolboys ![]()
Geri wrote: yes, us girls do like schoolboys
Errm, not me! Give me fat old Barney any day instead! I mean it!
NObabe wrote:
Geri wrote: yes, us girls do like schoolboys
Errm, not me! Give me fat old Barney any day instead! I mean it!
so you would definitely choose this
over this

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Tinny wrote: What about barney in his school shorts in the clip for Confusion? He looked like he was about seven and his mama dressed him...
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I cracked up so hard reading this!!!!!
In that video, yes, he looks young and he looks like he could be a teenager in that one.
But I absolutely LOVE his shorts in that one, because I love it when men wear shorts that are above their knees.
Anyways, that was a hilarious exaggeration.![]()
Ben wrote:
AgentWood wrote: barney looks pretty damn good to me.
D'you like schoolboys?
erm. considering my profession, i must say NO!
Hannett of the Apes wrote: Looks like the alternate cast for a British remake of The Breakfast Club.
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This pic is odd indeed. How does Hook look a lot younger then he does in the Joy Division days?
Slightly :topic: but the posters on the walls behind them really got my attention. Anyone knows their stories (gig posters maybe)?
Monsieur Round & Round wrote: Slightly :topic: but the posters on the walls behind them really got my attention. Anyone knows their stories (gig posters maybe)?
Pretty sure they all are, the only one I can help you with is the one with the blue seven, a poster for their Paradise Garage gig in NYC on 7 July 83......I know cause I'm staring at mine on the wall outside my home office....![]()
BTW Jeff, I know you're coming to get it, so forewarned is fairwarned......![]()
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:headoff::rip:...............:D![]()
As always, women mess the thread talking about men like they had never seem one before.
Or touched... or dated...
NOOL females are a shame...
[darkgreen]Green[/darkgreen] wrote:
Monsieur Round & Round wrote: Slightly :topic: but the posters on the walls behind them really got my attention. Anyone knows their stories (gig posters maybe)?
Pretty sure they all are, the only one I can help you with is the one with the blue seven, a poster for their Paradise Garage gig in NYC on 7 July 83......I know cause I'm staring at mine on the wall outside my home office....
BTW Jeff, I know you're coming to get it, so forewarned is fairwarned......
:headoff::rip:...............:D
What, you don't want to GIVE me that poster???
I can tell you about the one seen between Steve and Gillian's head...the one that looks like a big read 1....
It's from a gig here in Austin in 1983 (June 19th, I think), at a club called Nightlife...the club no longer exists...and I wouldn't mind having a copy of that one as well...
I think they used this photo for the International Musician magazine around the same time too?
They talked about how Blue Monday was recorded and re recorded.
I love 1987 wrote:
What, you don't want to GIVE me that poster???
You certainly are very, very, very high on the list of the people I would give it to, so yes you do have a chance. Maybe one in a million, but hey, you're in the ballpark. :D
Server Error in "/" Application wrote: As always, women mess the thread talking about men like they had never seem one before.
Or touched... or dated...
NOOL females are a shame...
well don't get to see ones looking that fit so often, whereas cute girls are everywhere, so what can you expect? Barney looks fine on that picture, he must have been quite the ladykiller in his day before he got married of course...
Chris Nash wrote: I still think that Steve looks almost the same now as he did in Joy Division. None of them have done too badly looks-wise when you consider the amount of late nights, long tours, drugs and alcohol (and in Steve's case, cigarettes) that they've been through!
Surely Steve isnt the only smoker in the band?!!?
The rejuvinating effects of a fuzzy scan methinks...
Barney was a bit time looker in his young age, not too bad now, but Hooky needs to give him a good beasting in the gym!