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The Young Ones

1st June 1995, Page 27
1st June 1995
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Dmong this summer's top i music attractions are the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Rod Stewart. With scarcely one of these rebellious teen idols under 50, it would seem that rock music has not only come of age but will soon qualify fora free bus pass, dentures, hearing aid and zimmer frame.

For anyone involved with this maturing industry to be celebrating a mere, cradlesnatching 21st, comes as something of a shock. Do their parents know they're out?

However, Edwin Shirley Trucking is 21 and about to enjoy a slice of purple haze, er, cake to celebrate. For anyone unfamiliar with Mr Shirley's recorded output, it should be noted that Edwin Shirley is a London-based trucking company specialising in rock tours, its first job being a 1974 David Bowie tour which both rocked, and indeed, rolled with the aid of a single 3.5-tonne bread van. The trucking cake is a present from ferry

operator Stella Sealink, which has carried a few Edwin Shirley Trucking (now EST) vehicles over the past two decades. As far as I know, the cake's ingredients are all legal substances—it must be the thought of a busy summer that makes everyone look so happy. EST is hitting the road on

behalf of Tom Jones, Ian Anderson, Rod Stewart, Robert Cray and Bon Jovi, who require 24 trucks to transport their particular brand of heavy metal. It's not all rock'n'roll, however--the impressive Hyde Park staging for the VE Day celebrations was built by EST's associate company.

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