Frank Bough

guitars4you

More of my child hood goes today - Way before the days of Sky and Sat afternoon was Grandstand - I have little memories of breakfast TV - But Grandstand was part of my growing up - And never missed the final score part

RIP Frank

Kittyfrisk

Sacked by the BBC in 1988 for (true) revelations involving cocaine & hookers.
Frank, you were a one off. RIP

merlin

Fretwired

Met him at a petrol station at the height of his fame .. he was tall. Nice guy .. we had a chat.

RIP.

axisus

One of those people who I thought had left us some years ago!

As a kid of the 70s I remember Grandstand with Frank Bough and World of sport with Dickie Davis very well. My dad was always watching them. Frank was an icon of my youth! RIP FB

Whitecat

Fun little tribute to Frank from Doves about a decade ago... https://www.soundonsound.com/people/doves-producing-kingdom-rust

usedtobe

RIP Frank.

Jalapeno

Really shitty tribute from the BBC yesterday - no class at all !

RIP Frank

EricTheWeary

I was watching it on the news and my son, who had no idea who he was, quite amazed that he’d been alive this long as Frank looked about 80 forty years ago. I got what he meant but I think Frank was just very old school in how he presented himself. My father, slightly older than Frank, was of a generation that seemed to go from childhood to being properly grown up rather than decades of chasing being a teenager. 

I don’t have very strong memories of him but one of those ‘always there’ figures. RIP. 

Philly_Q

axisus said:

One of those people who I thought had left us some years ago!

As a kid of the 70s I remember Grandstand with Frank Bough and World of sport with Dickie Davis very well. My dad was always watching them. Frank was an icon of my youth! RIP FB

This is something I'm becoming increasingly aware of - figures like Frank Bough who were genuine household names in my youth, they fade from our screens then one day you realise it's been 10 years since you heard of them at all.  And of course they've been slowly succumbing to old age, ending up in a care home like everyone else, no matter who they once were. 

All rather depressing.  RIP Frank.

EricTheWeary said:

I was watching it on the news and my son, who had no idea who he was, quite amazed that he’d been alive this long as Frank looked about 80 forty years ago. I got what he meant but I think Frank was just very old school in how he presented himself. My father, slightly older than Frank, was of a generation that seemed to go from childhood to being properly grown up rather than decades of chasing being a teenager. 

  I think its the combover.  The combover is extinct.  Except on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons.

vasselmeyer

Philly_Q said:

This is something I'm becoming increasingly aware of - figures like Frank Bough who were genuine household names in my youth, they fade from our screens then one day you realise it's been 10 years since you heard of them at all.  And of course they've been slowly succumbing to old age, ending up in a care home like everyone else, no matter who they once were.

When I read that, I just started wondering where Des Lynam is these days...

EDIT: And Dickie Davies...

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

axisus said:

One of those people who I thought had left us some years ago!

As a kid of the 70s I remember Grandstand with Frank Bough and World of sport with Dickie Davis very well. My dad was always watching them. Frank was an icon of my youth! RIP FB

This is something I'm becoming increasingly aware of - figures like Frank Bough who were genuine household names in my youth, they fade from our screens then one day you realise it's been 10 years since you heard of them at all.  And of course they've been slowly succumbing to old age, ending up in a care home like everyone else, no matter who they once were. 

All rather depressing.  RIP Frank.

EricTheWeary said:

I was watching it on the news and my son, who had no idea who he was, quite amazed that he’d been alive this long as Frank looked about 80 forty years ago. I got what he meant but I think Frank was just very old school in how he presented himself. My father, slightly older than Frank, was of a generation that seemed to go from childhood to being properly grown up rather than decades of chasing being a teenager. 

  I think its the combover.  The combover is extinct.  Except on the Conservative benches in the House of Commons.

Very, very obvious combover as well.

There’s a chap on my case load who is about 45 and lives with his mother who is nearly 80. He has a learning disability and autism and his mother chooses all his clothes, I suspect a bunch of them were his late father’s. So it’s cardigans and grey slacks, comfortable shoes - it’s quite hard to get past the idea that he isn’t in his 70s himself because that’s not how 45 year olds dress nowadays. Mention him to anyone who has ever met him and they think he is a pensioner. Yet he has the appropriate amount of wrinkles for his age, it’s just the clothes.
Frank, my dad were of a generation that went out of school uniform and into cheap suits which just looks odd and old these days. My father used to have a story about his first day at work, he would have been 15 I think, he got sent back home because he was still wearing his school shorts. His mother had to find him some long trousers from somewhere and day two of his job he became an old bloke. 

And, yes, names of people you’ve known all your life passing away. It is disconcerting. 

jonnyburgo

He was a right rum bugger, RIP