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Happy Days
No, not the TV show, I was just staring out of my window into my sunny garden and listening to "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" (Blame Hannah, it's all her fault). For just a moment, I was transported back to the really hot summer of '76. I was 8 and living in a cul-de-sac. My best friend lived next door and he had a willow tree on his front lawn, we spent so many days in the summer holidays hiding from the heat and our parents under that tree, crawling out every now and then to play cowboys and indians or a very innocent version of kiss chase with the girls in the road.
This feels just like a flashback from one of those TV shows, where they oversaturate the picture and filter it through an orange haze, but it really is like that in my mind. I can remember rubbing my bare back on the brickwork of my house trying to stop the itching from the mix of heat rash and sweat. I remember being fed Farley's Rusks by my friend's mum, because she had run out of biscuits to go with our orange squash. And through it all is the soundtracks from '76 and Elton and Kiki in particular.
I love the fact that a song can take you back like that, triggering so much more than just a memory.
Anyone else got a song and associated memory they'd care to share?
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Lionel Richie
"Hello, is it me you're looking for" always reminds me of eating easter eggs in my sister's bedroom and I've no idea why.
Have you read my blog?
That's what it's all about.
For me, every song is a memory.
I'm ashamed to say I have not
But I shall remedy that shortly.
Hadn't before,
but now I have.
Splendid stuff 5-C!
(And thanks for the link to the Captain's.)
The Spirit of 76
my main memory of that long hot summer was of the village pond completly drying up. For some inexplicable reason me & my friend Paul took it into out tiny minds to try and walk accross it. As we sank up to our knees in thick mud, it dawned on us that this was, in fact, a "bad idea" My wellies were sacrificed for the sake of escape. My shoeless appearence at home was obviously not greeted with the bunting and flag waving from the maternal parent.
I remember losing my wellies
in the mud on a building site. In the good old days, we had no idea that building sites were death traps. Sticky mud scooped into piles by JCBs were the child's equivalent of crack cocaine
Aaah '76
I spent the summer working for British Telecom in an office in Guildford. The shopping centre was about to be built right across the street and the rains in March/April had formed this huge lake in the middle of the building site. As the summer got hotter and hotter kids would climb over the fence and chuck themselves around in the impromptu pond. 'Elf n safety? Bollocks.
These 2 kept us going all summer. As you said, VP, 'appy days.
And this one with the Porcaro brothers ripping up a storm!
Had the same feeling for me..
..only yesterday.
"Let the music play" by Shannon on the ipod and I was immediately taken back to the friday nights on my (relative) youth.
The song was always played at the Ocean Rooms, Gorleston-on-Sea`s finest night spot. Poor old me, an extremely un-fashionable nwobhm fan always found my way to "the rooms" on a Friday just to stand around looking forlornly at the beautiful boys and girls drinking their Canadian Club and whatever.
Great song, even for a nwobhmetaler.Certainly has more legs than anything by The Tygers of Pan Tang.
I have a club song
that reminds me of my mis-spent youth. Robin S - Show Me Love. I could never remember what it was called, we used to refer to it as "The Drunk Song" cos we never heard it sober.
HOORAY!
It is the happiest song ever.
For me, "Distant Sun" by Crowded House always reminds me of my friend Tom. Who I haven't spoken to since 1996. And I never think about. Unles "Distant Sun" comes on.