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The world is flat.....
The thread about first record reminded me of driving home from freeman street market (by the docks in grimsby) where I had purchased my first single, Gary Glitters "Do you want to touch me?" in its purple sleeved glory, holding it in my excited clammy little hands.
My brother was with me in the back seat of our car (no seat belts) and we had some shopping sitting between us, probably to stop us hitting each other.
In the shopping was a packet of TREX lard. I remember telling my then 6 yr old brother (I was all of 8)that this was owned by Marc Bolan (ie T.REX lard). Over a recent cocktail or two he admitted that he thought this was true for many years afterwards. the fule.
I admitted back to him that until the age of about 11, I thought the pop charts were decided by a group of knowledgeable pop whitebeards who would consider all the new records and put them in order of favouritism. Records slipped down the charts as the whitebeards became tired of a song. When I let this theory out to my peers at secondary school I was ripped to pieces.
Have you ever had any stoopid naive ideas savagely disabused of at a later date? and we are talking (largely) music, here.
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I thought "bass". . .
meant "the wrong way round". As in "Look at Paul. It's not an ordinary guitar; it's a bass guitar. That's why he holds it like that, see."
Johnny Come Home
Years ago my brother told me that the Fine Young Cannibals were singing the song 'Johnny Come Home' because they had accidentally tried to eat Johnny (a former band mate) and now they were sorry and wanted to make up for it. I believed this story for so many years-stupid me!
Chalky
Terrible Love Songs Blog
Nothing to do with music but...
When I was in primary school my mother used to tell me that the newsagent we used to pass on the way home was open at that late hour (about four o'clock) SOLELY to sell copies of the local evening newspaper and that, if we were to go into said newsagent, ON NO ACCOUNT would they be able to sell us anything else on display, and certainly not anything of a sherberty nature.
I believed that for many years, and a little part of me still does.
Ice cream vans
That sherbert story reminds me of the tale I heard a stand-up comic telling about their parents telling them when an ice-cream van was playing a tune it meant they had sold out of ice-cream. Cruel, calculated and very, very funny.
Doh!
I thought for a long time that INXS was pronounced inkses....
Wizard!
I told my sister that Roy Wood was so Glamrock that he wasn't actually wearing makeup, he was actually sporting Glam tattoos.
Hook, line and sinker.
I used to think..
..that rock music was a powerful force, played by people who actually cared about what they were doing.
What a fucking idiot!