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Floored by Kylie Haymaker: She Wallops like a Kangaroo – How Tiny Kylie Thumped Hunky Jason. (People, August 21, 1988) Heartless Neighbours Jibe That Made Kylie Cry. (Sun, August 22, 1988) Why Kylie’s Driving Me [Jason] Crazy. (Sun, August 23, 1988) Also significant is the contemporaneous Thatcherite swelling of the ranks of the unemployed and underemployed. Writing in the Guardian, Hugh Hebert noted of the “new daytime audience” that there is a huge pool of unemployed and under-employed people and the daytime phenomenon is tapping into that market. Neighbours has been lucky enough to take off as that audience has grown. But it has a lighter touch than EastEnders or Coronation Street – it doesn’t have such deep social problems. (quoted by Harris 1988) Finally, media publicity has continually stoked the boilers of Neighbours’s success in the media in the last four years. Kylie and Jason launched their singing careers, threatening no less than Cliff Richard at the top of the charts in Christmas 1988. As well as the Royal Family, the Archbishop of Canterbury also let it be known that he, too, watched Neighbours. Since 1989, cast members have been invited to Royal Command Performances and to participate in Christmas pantomimes. Neighbours became a political football in 1991, with Michael Fallon, a junior education spokesperson, denouncing it for “making teachers’ jobs even harder” (Independent, May 19, 1991), and Jack Straw, his Labour counterpart, joining the fray in similar terms. It has also spawned a British version, Families, first screened on April 23, 1990. This revolves around two families, one British and one Australian, and the British father’s visiting Australia to find his lover of twenty years ago. In 1992 Neighbours appears to have incited its first murder, or at least manslaughter: LONDON: A man who killed his neighbour over a blaring television says he was driven mad – by the theme tune of Neighbours. Eric Seall, who walked free after being convicted of manslaughter, said: “It was that Neighbours tune that finally did it. That stupid song made my life hell.” A court was told that Seall, 32, came to blows with John Roach, 37, who fell downstairs at their flats in Hampshire and fractured his skull. (West Australian, June 27, 1992)
DOI link for Floored by Kylie Haymaker: She Wallops like a Kangaroo – How Tiny Kylie Thumped Hunky Jason. (People, August 21, 1988) Heartless Neighbours Jibe That Made Kylie Cry. (Sun, August 22, 1988) Why Kylie’s Driving Me [Jason] Crazy. (Sun, August 23, 1988) Also significant is the contemporaneous Thatcherite swelling of the ranks of the unemployed and underemployed. Writing in the Guardian, Hugh Hebert noted of the “new daytime audience” that there is a huge pool of unemployed and under-employed people and the daytime phenomenon is tapping into that market. Neighbours has been lucky enough to take off as that audience has grown. But it has a lighter touch than EastEnders or Coronation Street – it doesn’t have such deep social problems. (quoted by Harris 1988) Finally, media publicity has continually stoked the boilers of Neighbours’s success in the media in the last four years. Kylie and Jason launched their singing careers, threatening no less than Cliff Richard at the top of the charts in Christmas 1988. As well as the Royal Family, the Archbishop of Canterbury also let it be known that he, too, watched Neighbours. Since 1989, cast members have been invited to Royal Command Performances and to participate in Christmas pantomimes. Neighbours became a political football in 1991, with Michael Fallon, a junior education spokesperson, denouncing it for “making teachers’ jobs even harder” (Independent, May 19, 1991), and Jack Straw, his Labour counterpart, joining the fray in similar terms. It has also spawned a British version, Families, first screened on April 23, 1990. This revolves around two families, one British and one Australian, and the British father’s visiting Australia to find his lover of twenty years ago. In 1992 Neighbours appears to have incited its first murder, or at least manslaughter: LONDON: A man who killed his neighbour over a blaring television says he was driven mad – by the theme tune of Neighbours. Eric Seall, who walked free after being convicted of manslaughter, said: “It was that Neighbours tune that finally did it. That stupid song made my life hell.” A court was told that Seall, 32, came to blows with John Roach, 37, who fell downstairs at their flats in Hampshire and fractured his skull. (West Australian, June 27, 1992)
Floored by Kylie Haymaker: She Wallops like a Kangaroo – How Tiny Kylie Thumped Hunky Jason. (People, August 21, 1988) Heartless Neighbours Jibe That Made Kylie Cry. (Sun, August 22, 1988) Why Kylie’s Driving Me [Jason] Crazy. (Sun, August 23, 1988) Also significant is the contemporaneous Thatcherite swelling of the ranks of the unemployed and underemployed. Writing in the Guardian, Hugh Hebert noted of the “new daytime audience” that there is a huge pool of unemployed and under-employed people and the daytime phenomenon is tapping into that market. Neighbours has been lucky enough to take off as that audience has grown. But it has a lighter touch than EastEnders or Coronation Street – it doesn’t have such deep social problems. (quoted by Harris 1988) Finally, media publicity has continually stoked the boilers of Neighbours’s success in the media in the last four years. Kylie and Jason launched their singing careers, threatening no less than Cliff Richard at the top of the charts in Christmas 1988. As well as the Royal Family, the Archbishop of Canterbury also let it be known that he, too, watched Neighbours. Since 1989, cast members have been invited to Royal Command Performances and to participate in Christmas pantomimes. Neighbours became a political football in 1991, with Michael Fallon, a junior education spokesperson, denouncing it for “making teachers’ jobs even harder” (Independent, May 19, 1991), and Jack Straw, his Labour counterpart, joining the fray in similar terms. It has also spawned a British version, Families, first screened on April 23, 1990. This revolves around two families, one British and one Australian, and the British father’s visiting Australia to find his lover of twenty years ago. In 1992 Neighbours appears to have incited its first murder, or at least manslaughter: LONDON: A man who killed his neighbour over a blaring television says he was driven mad – by the theme tune of Neighbours. Eric Seall, who walked free after being convicted of manslaughter, said: “It was that Neighbours tune that finally did it. That stupid song made my life hell.” A court was told that Seall, 32, came to blows with John Roach, 37, who fell downstairs at their flats in Hampshire and fractured his skull. (West Australian, June 27, 1992)
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STEPHEN CROFTS