Sept. 15, 2025

(music) #1432 Let me bore you to sleep | Monday’s Boring Objects

(music) #1432 Let me bore you to sleep | Monday’s Boring Objects
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(music) #1432 Let me bore you to sleep | Monday’s Boring Objects | Jason Newland | 15th September 2025

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Hello, when welcome to Let Me Boy You to Sleep.

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My name's Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can

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safely close your eyes. And this this this, this is

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Monday's boring objects. My website for this podcast is let

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Me Boy to Sleep dot com. Although my Jason Newland

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dot com is still in operation, it's just a watered

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down version with all the links to previous hypnosis stuff.

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And also, if you'd like to become part of Jason

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Newland's Facebook group, I'm talking about myself and the third

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person there. My Facebook group is called Jason Newlands Group.

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They actually like to join in groovy. So what I

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thought i'd do what I thought I sound very young

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today for some reason, don't sound my actual age.

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I was last night.

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I was going I think I was on YouTube going

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through some of the YouTube. No, I think it was

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Apple Music, and I was just going through some of

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the music that I some of the songs that I like,

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and I forget how many songs I actually really like

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from the past. And sometimes I do get asked that question.

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By the way, it's Vinnie in the background, if you're

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wondering all that noises, I do get asked up what's

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my favorite song, my favorite album, and off the top

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of my head, I seem to come up with very

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similar question answers rather, but if I have the information

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in front of me, like all the different songs that

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have been released, I've got more of an opportunity to

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actually be reminded of some of the songs that I'd

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forgotten about. So what I'm going to do for this

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Monday's boring objects, I'm going to I'm just going to

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talk about some of my favorite songs from the eighties. Now,

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I'm probably gonna, yeah, I would go maybe my favorite

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it might just be my favorite songs from nineteen eighty

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because I don't know how far I can go, because

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I'm going to look through the whole year, Becau, It's

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not just number one hits that I would like. There's

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going to be songs that maybe we're in the top ten,

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top twenty, top thirty, that I might have really liked.

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So I don't want to just find the number one

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hits from the UK, you know, in nineteen eighty because

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Mike gave them. Give me maybe thirty songs, maybe twenty

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seven songs or whatever, Because sometimes songs are there for

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more than one week, aren't they? So yeah, so I thought,

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I just I'm not on the website called official charts

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dot com. Now I hope that this is only going

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to be in the UK. It won't matter too much

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because there's a crossover obviously. I means so many songs

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that I loved were from other countries. However, there's going

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to be I mean, I know, sometimes Oh, I hear

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a song and it was a massive hit in America,

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absolutely huge hit. I saw one the other day. It

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was something on YouTube. I think there's this Morning. Actually

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it was really random and it was like something the

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Corner or something, and it was the Jackson five and

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apparently it was a big hit in America. I never

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heard the song before. So I'm just going to go

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through nineteen eighty, so the top charts in this is

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the first twentieth of the first nineteen eighty Brass in Pockets,

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the Pretenders. Okay, so I'm not gonna I'm just going

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to go through a lot of these songs. I'm not

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necessarily gonna remember. But then if I heard it, i'd

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probably think, oh, but I'm not going to hear it.

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Because I'm doing this. I can't play music not chart music.

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It'd be nice if I could, because I'd like to

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do a kind of like a weekly radio show where

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I played music that I like, maybe even did I

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like the I do, Maybe doing too one show the weekend,

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maybe on a sad day, where I talk music I like,

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and then the Sunday show could be a request show.

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But it doesn't seem to be any way of doing that,

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like legally doing that without it costing money, which is

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a shame because Spotify used to allow that a few

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years back, and I did do a few episodes where

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I could just do a mixture of this and play

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a song. So I'd like to talk about the song,

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what it meant to me, you know, all that stuff,

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all that drivel, and then played this song, so it's

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kind of yeah, So I'm looking at this my girl

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from Madness, My girl do do, my Girl? So it's

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my girl. I liked that. I liked everything Madness did,

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so I don't remember that particular song off the top

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of my head. But then here and before I'm in

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the mood for dancing, one of my favorite songs that

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I never even think about me in the mood for

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all dancing, I actually dreamt about the Nolan sisters. Last

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night I dated one of them in my dream. That

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is very strange if they random as well, so it's

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kind of I mean number one was brass in Pocket.

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The Pretender's number two is with You I'm Born Again

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Billy Preston and so Rita. I probably know both those songs,

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but I don't can't think what they are so nineteen

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eighty it's kind of still similar songs from nineteen seventies.

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It's kind of the crossover period, isn't it. The music's

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starting to change, and then at the end of the

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eighties a song that the music changed again into being

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dominated in the UK by Stockak and Waterman with Kylie

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Minogue and Jason donovanond Rick Cassley and Sanita And yeah,

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some of the songs work actually, but I just wasn't.

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It wasn't for me. Although I did like Rick Cassley

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his voice, I didn't really like his songs but the hits,

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but he did do when I Fall in Love like

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the ballad. It's very good. I saw him sing alive,

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such a great singer. But you know, anyway, I'm in

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the mood for dancing. I remember hearing that why is

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my laptop vibrating. It is a laptop, isn't it. It's weird.

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I remember being at a wedding, so I guess it

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must have been nineteen eighty, so a wedd inside have

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been nine. And see to me, Ironba was like tiny,

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but I probably was tiny at nine, so yeah, but

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for some reason, I thought it was a lot earlier

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than that. So I'm in the mood for dancing was

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being played and I was dancing, and then my stepmom

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had a headache or something and she went home and

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my dad took me and my three brothers. I guess

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she must have gone. I don't know who who the

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baby was with my little brother, but we all went

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out into the sea, which is I think it's nighttime,

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and I do believe it's the first and only time

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we ever went into the sea together. I just remember that,

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and it's the only first time I ever felt safe

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in the sea because my dad was there. It's weird,

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isn't it. They're like, okay, I want to hold your hand. Dollar. No,

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I don't remember that one. I remember Dollar because they

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were on the Rock Harris Show when I was on

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a Rock Harry show. But they had one a really

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big hit all Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall.

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I like that song, but I don't really remember it

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like when it came out. I kind of I thought

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another I thought it was like from the seventies, that song,

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Oh a Nerther brick in the war, blah blah, tears

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of a clown that beats. It's different for girls Joe Jackson,

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I have a Dream at Adda. Yep, it's quite weird

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because see this is a game kind of strange because

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it's nineteen eighty. I thought Abba was pretty much over

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and done with Bye Bye nineteen eighty, not overdue with.

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But they had like such a huge success in the seventies.

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I didn't know they had any hits in the eighties,

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but clearly they did because I have a dreams brilliant

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They picked at number two though, I have a Dream. Yeah,

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the London call In the Clash, So this is where

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the seventies clashed to see what I did the h

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with the eighties, so people like the Clash Specials kind

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of carried on from the seventies to the eighties, so

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they almost kind of created the eighties in a sort

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of new way. And London call In I remember that one,

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But Luke loved the clash London Calling and I forget

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what the other one group, the Specials too Much, too Young,

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too much, too young, too much, too young do something

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like that. They did a really good song called ghost

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Town it's own are living in a ghost town all

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the things that are down, something like that. And I

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actually went to lunch with him, that bloke from the Specials.

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He's no longer with us, unfortunately, but I didn't know

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who he was. So there was this lady called Helen.

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She was a BBC She was I think she was

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self improved at this point, but she was a producer

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and film producer and TV producer, producer, and I don't

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know why, but we just built a friendship up. She'd

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started doing comedy. We met at a comedy gig and

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we just hit it off. She was probably in her thirties.

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I was what was I twenty and this is in

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the nineties on a matter, I was probably like twenty

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two maybe and twenty three. And she used to take

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me out. It wasn't a relationship, although I started have

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I think I started to have a few feelings for

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her because I spent so much time with her but

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it wasn't a relationship like romance. But she just liked

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spending time with me, and she.

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Used to take me to theaters, take me to concerts,

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take me out for meals, and I kind of got

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a chance to see the other side of life, you know,

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the side where.

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There was no no penny, no penny counting, no or

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check what I can afford on the menu. And it

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felt quite nice. And I do part of people's like

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i'd taken advantage of her, but I wasn't because I

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don't really care like that. In them days, I couldn't

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care if I was eating in a top class restaurant

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or in McDonald's. I really didn't care as long as

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I was able to fill my tummy, that's really, you know,

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with something tasty hopefully. But yeah, I think part of

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the reason it wasn't costing her money to go to

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a lot of these concerts because she'd get tickets sent

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to her because I wanted to give her to give reviews,

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and because she was a TV producer and she knew

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a lot of people, and so she'd get a lot

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of comp tickets. Yeah, I went to one. I went

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to a concert I forget his name, that he did.

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We had one really big hit American guy with a

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like all his kind of style hair. Oh what was

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his name? I forget his name, really really super good

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looking bloke and he it was a really good song

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as well, like the one that's one of those like

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really really good songs in the nineties that was like

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huge hit, and off the back of that he was

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able to sell out concerts and stuff around the world.

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I guess, oh it was his name. Anyway, we went along,

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we got bored and left because I only knew one song.

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I wasn't a fan of his, but we just couldn't

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be bothered. It was full of there's a lot of

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very young female screaming, and I was like, Okay, this

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isn't really It was a little bit I don't know.

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I just felt a bit strange being there, and I

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didn't know. If it had been someone that I knew,

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I could have got super excited, probably, But but there's

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one point when he gets on stage. Everyone's sitting in

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their chairs in their seats, and it's it's I don't know,

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a theater. There's probably a couple of thousand people in there,

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and he's standing there and everyone's clapping and or whatever,

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and he starts talking to everyone, and you know, he

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looks great, sounds great, isn't I don't think he's actually

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started singing yet. And this surprised me. He said to

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the audience as he said, you can come up, and

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is this totally true. I'm not making this up. He said,

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you can come up to the front if you want

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and scream. You can stand at the front and scream

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if you want. So all these girls just started running

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up and screaming, and I just thought it was quite weird.

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That almost need to instigate it yourself. But yeah, it was.

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I don't know, it was funny, but we didn't. I

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don't know if it was that I didn't want to

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watch it or that she didn't want to watch it,

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the lady I was with. But in the end we left.

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But I did go to a few like operas, and

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I think and I also went to see Waiting for Godo,

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which had rigged mail and age and Edmonson in and

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there was a huge wait for it to start because

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he hadn't turned up or he was like getting there.

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I think, Rick mal, I'm pretty sure it's quite weird

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because it was Waiting for God, wasn't it. So we

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were waiting for Rick Mail and I think it was

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like half an hour forty minutes late starting, but everybody

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wanted to see Rick Malt because Rick Maul. If you

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don't know who Rick Mail is or what Adrian Nipinson,

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if you're not from the UK and you've not heard

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of them, they were in TV. They were basically heroes

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of comedy in this country. They're icons. Really. They were

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in The Young Ones, which was a anarchic TV show

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in the eighties early eighties, eight three eighty four, and

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so they were both comedians, comedy actors and stuff. And

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then they went on and did have their own double

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act where they was it called Phil Fire Coming, what

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was called Bottom? That's it. They had their own TV

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show called Bottom, which they performed all around the country

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maybe around the world, I don't know, and it went

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on for ages long, many many years. And Rick mal

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was alsoing lots of different like sitcoms and stuff. And

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I think Adrian Edmondson did he did a bit more

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serious stuff later on because he was in Holby City,

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so he was really he's just a really good actor.

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They were both really good actors. But yeah, yeah, is

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this that I remember one that Ricky or did he?

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There was? Oh? What was the TV show? It was

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about a minister called Bastard Alan Bastard and it's very funny.

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So rig Mel, I don't say Ricky didn't I rig

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Mel was the star of that and it was very good,

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very funny. That was in the like eighty six eight

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and probably about eighty eight times eighty nine nine anyway,

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But I also so going back to Helen, I went

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and she said, oh, I want to meet up with her.

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She lived in did she live? What's that movie? A

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North London movie named after a North London area from

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a bloke did three weddings in a funeral notting Hill.

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She lived in notting Hill and she lived in this

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really nice area, big streets, loads of trees. She lived

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in its flat which was be then a house where

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it was it was like really quite a nice place.

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I couldn't find her for ages, honestly, it was like

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it wasn't on the ether's head. It was hidden anyway.

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I went to visit her one day and she I

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think this Saturday, and she said, oh, I'm going for lunch.

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She'd go for lunch. Said oh, okay. So she went

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to lunch and then when we got there, she said, oh,

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I'm meeting I can't remember her name. I after I

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have put it in now the special see I didn't realize. Okay,

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he Terry Hall. That's it, Terry Hall. So Terry Hall.

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She said, oh, I got a friend coming along and said, okay, cool.

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I didn't like the idea of that, but I said,

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fair enough. Not paytrit girl, is it? And she said no.

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I said, okay, fair enough and she said it's Terry Hall.

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I said, ye means nothing to me. And so he

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came along and they were just talking and had known each

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other for seem off forever, good friends, and it was

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really friendly, really nice bloke, and she was talking about

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what's he up to, and they were talking about music

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and some stuff that he was getting on with. And

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but at no point did he mention or did she

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mention to me that he was a big star. He'd

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been in I think three big bands in the UK.

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Terry Hall. I mean, he's not around anymore, but he was.

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He kind of was is it Scar? He was kind

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of I think created Scar a sort of certain type

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of music, which then led to madness and maybe Adam

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Andiants should we say possibly, I don't know. Anyway, very

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influential and had loads of people in the band. It

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wasn't just like three people or four people. There was lots.

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So he was never going to make a huge amount

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of money if he was shared out amongst everyone. And

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I quite like that. I think he was just having

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fun with his friends, you know. And they did such

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a great song, ghost Town, which was number one for

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a couple of weeks, but that's later on in the eighties.

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I'm not sure if I'm going to get past the

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first week of nineteen eighty one. That's not good, is it?

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How am I going to? How am I supposed to?

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Maybe this should be my new weekly recording songs. I

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like the charts from the nineteen eighties because I'm going

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to struggle to get through just one week. So if

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you think about that, that's going to be fifty two

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weeks times by ten years, five hundred and twenty recordings,

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five hundred and twenty years, five hundred and twenty years. Really,

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so each year is going to be one Yeah, it's

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going to take me one year to do, isn't it?

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Fifty two? Which means maybe I should have started in

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nineteen seventy, but then that wouldn't make sense with it,

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because that means I have to live to be another

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fifty five years old. But then by the time I'm

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in another fifty five years, there'll be another fifty five

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years to talk about. Oh, unless I just say my

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favorite songs, So this could be the first episode of

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my favorite songs. But then I've already started it on

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the boring Monday. Perhaps if I hadn't mentioned boring Monday's objects,

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but then I keep mentioning boring Monday's objects Monday's boring

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objects rather, I don't know. Anyways, I'm talking. We're just

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having a nice chat. See if i'd known but known

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how I was back then when the waiter came around

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and sort of said, oh, are you ready to Are

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you ready to order? How could I not have said,

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what are the Specials? Do? They watched Today's specials? Because

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he was in a band called the Specials, And I

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looked stupid, It looked really dumb. I'd have found it

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hilarious as well. At the time. He probably wouldn't have done.

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She might have done, I don't know. She might have

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just been embarrassed but I think that was part of

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the deal. I was quite embarrassing. I think she quite

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found that quite amusing. And he was lovely, really nice bloke.

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Now back then I was did not like meeting new people.

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I've never really enjoyed meeting new people. I'm okay once

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I meet them. Once I've kind of kind of got

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to know if they're safe or not, I suppose in

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a weird way. But it's easy when it's just lunch.

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It's just like an hour or two, like, okay, I

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haven't got to see them again. But when it comes

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to like working, or someone moving in and like to

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a building or into a house that I'm living in

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when I was in the past, or me moving into

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a new home and having to sort of kind of

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get to know new people, or me starting a new job. Yeah,

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I've never never enjoyed that. But it's weird because eventually

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you just get to know people, don't you. It's standard.

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I mean when I started doing taekwondo, I remember what,

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was I thirty? Now I was forty one? Now was

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I forty one? I was forty? I was forty years

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old and I started doing ty try, Yeah, taekwondo, and

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I didn't know anyone there, and eventually I kind of

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got to know so many people. And I was quite

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friendly with the instructor because he was more my age

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than anyone else, because he was about ten years old

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than me. A lot of other people were like ten

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years fifteen years old, twenty years old, twenty five. You know,

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there's a lot of much younger people than me. I

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was the youngest, but I wasn't the fattest. I was

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the second fettest, the second fettiest, but he was much more.

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I don't call other people fab I'm just saying, okay,

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well I was the second most rotund, and he was

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a lot fitter than I was. And I remember thinking

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back to that time, thinking, because I know I lost

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weight when I was doing it, and after probably six months,

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i'd slip down, and I remember that because the instructor

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is saying you've lost weight. I said, oh, thanks, and

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I believed him, because why would someone lie about that.

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It's to be crawlin't it. Especially if I start walking

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around about the top on thinking I'm slim now and

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everyone's laughing at me. It's like, no, the police are

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arresting me. He's like, oh, but your boobs back inside

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your brah. I'm like wow. And I see a picture

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recently that I've got of that time, and there's a

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picture of my belly just flopping over the belt. It's

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just like wow, that's me having lost weight crazy, And

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I was standing there thinking I was slim, Wow, too much?

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Too young? Do do do? I forget that? I don't

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know anyway, So I look at this spirits having flown

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the Beg's is it love Your after Rose Royce, Spacer

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Jazz Carnival, seventeen Regents, Rappers, Delight, the sugar Hill Gang.

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I don't know any of these day trip to Bagna

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to bangor if I only want to be with you?

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I only want to be with you? Do Do Do Do?

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Do?

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Do? Do? Do Do Do Do? Was that done by

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quite a few different people. It peaked at number four

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the tourists I Only want to be with you? Wasn't

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there a really famous person that song there? Like really famous,

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like in the sixties or the seventies or something. So

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I remember the song. I remember, I know the song song,

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but I don't know which version that was. Living by

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numbers escape Rupert Holmes, the Pinicolada song. I probably know that,

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but I can't think of it working for the Yankee

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Dollar Skids. I'm beginning to think this is not a

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UK charts This is all it is? It is, it is,

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it is Okay, it just seemed like the songs I've

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never heard of. But yeah, is this love that I'm feeling?

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Is this the love? Is that the one the Rose Royce?

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If it is, then it's a great song. Rappers Delight

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the sugar Hill Gang. Nope, I don't know. It sounds

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familiar like the song that means that the sound, the sound,

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the title Rappers Delight and then the sugar Hill Gangs.

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I've heard of the sugar Hill Gang working for the

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Yankee Dollar Skids. Too Hot, Cooling the Gang, too Hot,

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too Hot. I'm in the mood for being too hot.

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I feel like being too hot. Maybe that's cooling the Gang.

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I probably know that song, but it's not my cooling.

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The gain go to as it were. So when I

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was DJ, Cooling the Gang songs were quite popular. They

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had quite a few, like dancing tracks, so cool in

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the Gang. I liked them, but I don't remember Too Hot,

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buzz buzz A did lit Matchbox. No, there's number thirty

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I don't know that one. I probably do, but I

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can't sit off just from the title, there's no image

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or anything. My feet keep dancing cheek or Chick thirty

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one No Blue Peter by Mike Oldfield. Now I'm surprised

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at that. There reason no surprise because I know who

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my Coldfield is. I know Blue Peter. It's the Blue

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Peter theme tune for one of the most famous children's

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TV shows in the UK history, Blue Peter, and possibly

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the longest running. I don't know if it's still going now.

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And but it was like do do do do do do?

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So I'm thinking maybe Mike Oldfield was asked to revamp

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it and make it sound better. Okay, didn't Mike Coldfield?

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Did he do the the No? Did he? Mike Oldfield?

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Did he? What did he do? Trouebler Belts? And I'm

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thinking of someone else, which makes him one of the

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most famous producers of music. Did he do? Did he?

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Did he do the Big Brother theme tune? Mm hmm? Anyway,

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I know the tune like really well because I've heard

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it thousands of times when I was a kid, probably,

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but I don't remember being in a chart. Clearly it

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was for nineteen, twenty four weeks it picked at number nineteen.

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No.

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It was in chart for eight weeks, picked at number nineteen.

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Lowe's week was number twenty four. Cowd of the country

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Kenny Rodgers. I think with someone like Kenny Rodgers, I

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will recognize this song when I hear it, but I

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won't necessarily know the title of the song because really

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unlike in I'm going to say America, because I don't

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know about other countries. I know in America, country in

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Western music is it was huge and still is huge

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in this country country and western country and is it country?

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No country where it's not country and westn is it

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country music? Sorry? Country music. There's always been a place

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for it here and there's been some huge stars that

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have had, you know, big hits from the country world

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music world over the decades in the UK, but it's

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not it's never been a dominant music here, so you'd

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you're unlikely to see like a top forty where you've

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got ten songs from the country country music. But some

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of the really big people like Dolly Parton, but there

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was more herb popular songs that became pop. Pillar That's weird,

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isn't it? As like nine to five and Joe Line

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things like that. So I actually had an uncle who

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was in a country band and it was the biggest

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country band in the UK. He won awards like the

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most popular country band every year, and I was so impressed,

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and so I realized there was only four bands in

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the country. I'm joking. He was so good. I went

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to one of his gigs once and he was I

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think he was doing it for probably four decades, five

467
00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:48.840
decades seriously from I just did it forever. That he

468
00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:51.960
started off probably doing like sixties music, and then he

469
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:56.320
kind of moved into the country in the seventies when

470
00:37:56.360 --> 00:37:59.639
the sixties country has been around forever, isn't it not

471
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:04.119
the with the trees? I'm talking about country music. Got

472
00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:10.159
to Love Somebody, Sister Sledge, got to love Somebody, I'm

473
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:14.199
in the mood forgot to love somebody. For loving somebody.

474
00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:17.480
I don't know that one. Then it peaked at number

475
00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:23.199
thirty four, So that wasn't like a big strange little

476
00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:28.519
girl said Cafe Nope, Young Blood UFO, Sarah Fleetwood Mac

477
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:32.039
don't know that one, My simple heart. The three degrees

478
00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:40.840
thirty nine, Paradise Bird, The Letter Wonderland, the commodols. Now

479
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:57.960
I probably do know those. However, January nineteen eighty first

480
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:03.960
to twentieth twentieth is the wrong? Is doing wrong? Why

481
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:10.320
is it doing that? For six of the first six

482
00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:14.960
of the first, first of the first should you see

483
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:22.800
first of the first twenty January nineteen eighty, right, that's

484
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:33.519
the first one that we can do chants? Okay, So

485
00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:38.280
twelve is September. Why why have you done that for?

486
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:43.039
Why twelve September? I don't want twelve to September twenty

487
00:39:43.119 --> 00:39:47.199
twenty five is taking away from me. It's say no,

488
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:51.599
do what I told you, or don't do anything at all.

489
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:57.199
Stop No, I go all the way back to nineteen eighty.

490
00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:02.519
It's going to take absolutely years if that won't even

491
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:04.239
let me go and he going but back as far

492
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:15.800
as twenty twenty one? Why why are you doing this? Okay?

493
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:19.400
So for some reason it's blocked me out and I

494
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:24.320
don't understand why. I don't get Oh, let's go to

495
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:28.320
Wikipedia see if that will do it. Nineteen eighty best

496
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:35.920
selling single of the year. Madonna had six number ones

497
00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:40.679
juney eighties, so cent the eighties and as you are

498
00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:46.800
sort of Music Week June eighties are a total of

499
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:49.559
one hundred and ninety one singles which took the UK

500
00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:54.760
chart number one spot. Madonna was the most successful single

501
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:58.079
act of the decade, as six of US singles reached

502
00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:02.639
the top spot. George Michael had significant involvement with eight

503
00:41:03.239 --> 00:41:06.000
number one singles, with two number one singles as a

504
00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:12.360
solo artist, four as a member of Wham and one

505
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:17.000
as a duet with Arefer Frank Lnn, and one as

506
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:22.800
a member of a charity supergroup band Aid. Six singles

507
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:33.960
Oh Okay Frankie Goes to Hollywood received the longest number one,

508
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:37.239
which was nine weeks in nineteen eighty four two Tribes.

509
00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:43.760
The best selling single of the decade nineteen eighties was

510
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:47.639
Do Their Notes Christmas by band Aid, selling more than

511
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:51.960
three point five million copies and passing Mula of King

512
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:59.480
Tire by Wings to become the best selling single ever altogether.

513
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:06.800
Now My Looking Ti No Need for News the only

514
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:14.360
song I've ever enjoyed listening to bagpipes. I'm not a

515
00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:24.679
fan of bad pipes, bad pipes, bagpipes. I know, no, sorry,

516
00:42:25.519 --> 00:42:29.519
I can't, I don't know. I think it's just just

517
00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:32.719
not really. My ears aren't suited for it. I'm sure

518
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:41.360
they're amazing. My ears don't can't adapt to bagpipes, and

519
00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:46.239
not everybody that plays bagpipes in public trying to figure

520
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:52.159
what the correct words is Not everyone that plays bagpipes

521
00:42:52.199 --> 00:43:02.119
in public should play bagpipes in public. Yeah, I think

522
00:43:02.199 --> 00:43:07.920
it's quite a difficult instrument to learn. I think it

523
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.559
must be, otherwise more people would be good at it.

524
00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:13.800
I'm sure, I'm sure they are, but I've just you know,

525
00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:17.320
I'm moving on. Nineteen eighty saw the introduction of the

526
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:21.039
cassette single. Really, I thought that was around for ages.

527
00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:25.599
I used to buy the cassette single along the seven

528
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:30.280
inch and twelve inch format in nineteen eighty seven. In

529
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:34.119
nineteen eighty seven, major record labels developed a common format

530
00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:44.639
for the CD single. I'll tell you what I didn't

531
00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:49.480
even I don't think. I started listening to CDs till

532
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:57.719
the late nineties, so it took me ten years before

533
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:02.519
I even accepted the CDs existed. Honestly, still buying tapes.

534
00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:16.440
Best selling single of the year, Wait a minute, nineteen seventy, okay,

535
00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:19.599
nineteen eighty, so it's going to give me this is

536
00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:21.119
for the whole year. So I'm not going to go

537
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:29.599
by week now because it's going to take ages number.

538
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:40.559
This is the number, So why has it got a

539
00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:47.280
number four? It's very weird. So let's have a look.

540
00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:49.519
These were the ones that weeks at number one. These

541
00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:52.480
were the number one songs, Pink Floyd and Other, Brick

542
00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:59.800
in the Wall, Pretenders, Brass in a Pocket, and Blondie Atomic.

543
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:05.559
I loved Blondie, Blondie. See see when I get asked

544
00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:08.440
the question on a Q and A Friday, I'll say, oh,

545
00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:14.280
I'll go to the music and I think, well, Madonna, Terrence,

546
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:16.960
Trent Derby, and I'll sort of think about, you know,

547
00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:24.639
Michael Jackson and the Beatles and Stevie Wonder and George

548
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:31.360
Michael and different various people that I really loved a lot.

549
00:45:33.199 --> 00:45:36.079
But there was a lot of songs, a lot of singers,

550
00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:39.440
a lot of bands that I never bought an album

551
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:45.280
off ever are Blondie and I love so many songs

552
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:51.039
that Blondie did, particularly the Tide is High, because I

553
00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:58.199
remember my I couldn't tell you the exact year. I

554
00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:00.000
could because I could look it up, couldn't I Actually,

555
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:04.400
let's look it up. Why am I being so so coy?

556
00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:08.920
The Tide is High, which I would say is one

557
00:46:08.920 --> 00:46:16.480
of their biggest hits, The Tide is High. Come on, Blondie,

558
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:25.039
Blondie and discography Blondie. Right. I want singles, not albums

559
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:36.440
essential great, No, I want singles, live albums. These are

560
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:41.880
just albums. I want singles. Where's the singles?

561
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:43.400
Oh?

562
00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:49.599
Here we go, right, So let's go down to the

563
00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:53.679
correct year. So I'm just going down. They started in

564
00:46:53.760 --> 00:47:00.000
nineteen seventy six. They had a number one in Belgium

565
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:04.239
and number one in New Zealand with Denise Denise. Denise

566
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.400
UK was number two, so that was a great song.

567
00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:13.679
I loved that. That was nineteen seventy eight. So I

568
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:19.440
didn't realize that Hanging on the Teared Phone that was

569
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:22.639
seventy eight as well, and it reached number five in

570
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:31.360
the UK. See that's weird, right, Why are none of

571
00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:37.920
those listed in the US. So Denise Denise like didn't

572
00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:43.840
even register. Like they didn't release it in America, an

573
00:47:43.880 --> 00:47:48.000
American group. I do believe Hanging on Telephone didn't release

574
00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:53.360
in America because it didn't chart. How please explain that

575
00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:58.760
to me? How great song? Two great songs got number

576
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:04.159
five here? So we charted the highest in the UK,

577
00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:11.159
and Denise charted the second highest in the UK, but

578
00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:14.360
he went to number one in New Zealand and Belgium.

579
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:21.599
And then in nineteen seventy nine, Half Glass reached number

580
00:48:21.639 --> 00:48:27.639
one in the UK but also in the US, so

581
00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:32.199
that must have been their big breakthrough hit. It reached

582
00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:39.599
number one in Australia, in Canada, gerbil or Germany, probably

583
00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:49.800
not Germany and New Zealand, so big hit reached got silver, silver,

584
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:53.920
I don't know what I'm saying. Silver, So Heart Glass.

585
00:48:54.880 --> 00:49:01.440
Then Sunday Girl didn't didn't even get in the charts

586
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:06.199
in America. This is nineteen seventy nine. Wait a minute,

587
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:09.760
Heart Glasses seventy nine. Sunday Girl got to number one

588
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:18.760
in the UK again and also Ireland, but didn't chart

589
00:49:18.840 --> 00:49:24.800
in America. And then one way or another, one way

590
00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:27.800
or another, I'm going to get Yeah, I'm going to

591
00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:31.800
get it one way or another. See, you don't really

592
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:35.199
remember that it was a good song. It did chart

593
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:40.400
in America. Twenty four got to got to number ninety

594
00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:46.960
eight in the UK, so maybe people in this country

595
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:53.079
were not. So we're getting bored, which I understand because

596
00:49:53.239 --> 00:50:00.280
Blondie was amazing Dreaming. So in America though this started

597
00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:03.679
to get more like kids, but they were still only

598
00:50:03.719 --> 00:50:08.239
get in like twenty four, twenty seven, eighty four when

599
00:50:11.039 --> 00:50:13.920
Dreaming got to number two in the UK, twenty seven

600
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:21.519
in America. Union City Blue thirteen in the UK didn't

601
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:25.960
even register in America, and the hardest part, the hardest part,

602
00:50:26.079 --> 00:50:29.719
got to eighty four. The thing is number eighty four

603
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:33.719
in an American chart when you got three hundred plus

604
00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:38.599
thousand people compared to probably back then, I don't know

605
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:43.760
what fifty fifty five hours, three hundred million, probably three

606
00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:48.199
hundred and ten million or twenty million in America. Here

607
00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:52.119
there was probably about fifty or fifty five, fifty six

608
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:56.800
million in nineteen eighty nineteen seventy nine, fifty million. It's

609
00:50:56.840 --> 00:51:00.480
a lot more now. And then at the end of

610
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:06.519
nineteen seventy nine, called me number one in America, number

611
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:12.719
one in the UK. So it's weird. So nineteen seventy nine,

612
00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:18.400
So nineteen for the looks of this, So heart Glass,

613
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:30.159
I'm confused, So heart Glass, so call me. It was

614
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:33.400
nineteen eighty. So they got one, number one in America

615
00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:37.880
Hard Glass in nineteen seventy nine. That was their first

616
00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:42.079
song that got to number one, and in nineteen eighty

617
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:44.679
call Me got to number one and in the UK

618
00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:52.880
as well, So technically we appreciated and realized how wonderful Madonna,

619
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:59.639
how wonderful Blondie was kind of before anyone else. It's

620
00:51:59.639 --> 00:52:05.519
only US, Belgium, maybe Ireland, Canada were the only ones

621
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:14.280
that really appreciated how brilliant they were. But call Me

622
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:18.599
that was there. I guess that rule you got would

623
00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:20.519
say that the breakthrough because I didn't have a number

624
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:26.960
one in America and it went gold, so they made

625
00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:31.480
a lot of money from that one song, So it's yes,

626
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:35.760
successful wise, but it's just weird that they didn't didn't

627
00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:37.239
get in a top ten with any of the other

628
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:42.480
songs until call Me in nineteen eighty number one, number

629
00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:46.719
one in the America. Atomic only got to number thirty

630
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:50.840
nine in America. What is wrong with you? People got

631
00:52:50.840 --> 00:52:55.000
to number one here, we're the only country that appreciated

632
00:52:55.000 --> 00:53:02.960
Atomic thirty nine. I realized when we did our charts

633
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:06.719
in the UK, we didn't go below forty. It was

634
00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:12.960
also top forty, so any chart below that wasn't even mentioned. Ever,

635
00:53:14.199 --> 00:53:19.000
They've got no publicity in the UK, that is in

636
00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:27.880
the United Kingdom of England, Commonwealth Britain. Atomic. So Atomic

637
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:32.519
got to number one in the UK, but it also

638
00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:36.079
chied in the top twenty in every other country, well

639
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:51.679
apart from one America and which was thirty nine and Canada. Right,

640
00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:55.199
so you've got heroes that didn't chart at all that

641
00:53:55.519 --> 00:54:00.760
doesn't know what happened there, a non album single and

642
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:05.159
then my favoritest song that they ever did. And this

643
00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:07.159
is what I was going to talk about. This was

644
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:15.159
nineteen eighty, which is weird because I was, yeah, I

645
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:19.840
suppose it makes sense. Nineteen eighty Does it say when?

646
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:23.119
Does it say when? From looks of it, it's at

647
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:26.039
the end of nineteen eighty to probably the winter nineteen eighty.

648
00:54:26.599 --> 00:54:32.679
So I turned ten. My oldest brother was fourteen. He

649
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:37.679
had a job at Tesco or some supermarket up the

650
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:44.480
road around the corner part time, and we used to

651
00:54:44.519 --> 00:54:50.559
get He was more obsessed about the charts than I was. Now.

652
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:54.519
I was happy to wait till Thursday to watch it

653
00:54:54.599 --> 00:54:59.400
on Top of the Pops, but the actual chart was

654
00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:07.440
released on a Tuesday, and the only way I could spoil,

655
00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:10.760
you know, I kind of had to listen to it

656
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:16.920
on a Tuesday in order for him not to spoiler

657
00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:19.960
for me because he teld me who was number one otherwise,

658
00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:22.840
because it'd be two days till it was actually released

659
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:27.239
on Top of the Pops on Thursday night, so he

660
00:55:27.320 --> 00:55:29.039
used to listen to it on a Tuesday. And what

661
00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:32.639
we did is, I remember one particular night he was working.

662
00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:36.679
It was dark outside. I'm adding that for effect. I

663
00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:41.920
don't know who knows. I can't remember, but I remember

664
00:55:42.119 --> 00:55:46.039
taping the Top forty and I'm guessing it was on

665
00:55:46.159 --> 00:55:51.559
Radio one and they did the Top the Top forty

666
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:58.519
charts and I recorded the whole thing. Now it needed

667
00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:02.480
probably needed to be turned over in order to record

668
00:56:02.639 --> 00:56:04.679
the other side of the tape because of the length

669
00:56:04.679 --> 00:56:07.920
of the show, which was probably three hours long, maybe

670
00:56:08.119 --> 00:56:16.559
two hours long. And he kept saying, don't tell me,

671
00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:23.039
don't tell me who's number one. I don't know why,

672
00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:26.920
but he was looking so he was really looking forward

673
00:56:26.920 --> 00:56:30.000
to it. I wanted Debbie Harriet to be number one.

674
00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:33.920
And because I love the Tide is High. It's my

675
00:56:33.960 --> 00:56:39.000
favorite song at the time, and I should I say

676
00:56:39.039 --> 00:56:45.760
it to you. The Tired is high, They're tired is high,

677
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:50.199
The tide is high. The tide is ha hi hi,

678
00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:55.239
and I remember it's weird. I got this memory. I

679
00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:59.760
remember we had this like stacked system. I was like

680
00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:03.480
all and one with like two There was a record

681
00:57:03.559 --> 00:57:06.480
player at the top with a plastic cover that you

682
00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:16.119
built up, and there was a radio in built, and

683
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:21.840
then further down there was two tape recorders side by

684
00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:27.880
side which you could tape. You could tape to tape,

685
00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:33.480
and then at the bottom I think there was roomed

686
00:57:33.639 --> 00:57:41.559
for albums to become and it had this glass kind

687
00:57:41.559 --> 00:57:46.960
of like dark glass door with a magnet so you

688
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.760
could just push it in here just clicks up, you know, magnetized.

689
00:57:56.440 --> 00:57:59.000
I think the reason I remember I think I think

690
00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:02.119
my dad's still got it. Actually, I think he's still

691
00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:04.519
got it, or he did still have it when I

692
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:08.800
was living with him in nineteen ninety for a little while,

693
00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:13.760
so I've probably seen it loads of times over the years,

694
00:58:13.760 --> 00:58:18.920
so that's why I remember it. Maybe, But I just

695
00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:27.519
remember sitting there on the floor making sure that I

696
00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:31.199
got all the songs, and I'm sudd I've got this memory,

697
00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:34.719
and I might have made this bit up, but he

698
00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:39.599
was phoning, kept phoning up from work. He only lived

699
00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:42.960
around the corner kept phoning up from work to say,

700
00:58:43.679 --> 00:58:47.079
did you remember? Do you remember to record it? Said? Yes,

701
00:58:48.360 --> 00:58:50.280
I think At one point he actually came home on

702
00:58:50.360 --> 00:58:59.000
his break because it was literally thirty seconds walk just

703
00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:02.039
came in to check the recording it. It's like, yes,

704
00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:04.239
we know, it's the most important thing in that world.

705
00:59:04.760 --> 00:59:06.760
We're doing it because me and my brother were both

706
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:12.360
doing it together. My other brother like, what's so important

707
00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:16.960
about this? He said, you don't understand. I don't understand

708
00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:21.199
how important this is. I do wonder if we had

709
00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:26.159
different parents. So, yeah, Tyder's High, that was one of

710
00:59:26.159 --> 00:59:31.840
my favorite songs. I don't know why I'm mentioning the

711
00:59:31.880 --> 00:59:37.280
Tyler's High? Why was I talking about Tyler's High? Rapture?

712
00:59:38.159 --> 00:59:39.960
So that got to number one in America but got

713
00:59:39.960 --> 00:59:43.000
to number five in the UK. I don't even remember

714
00:59:43.039 --> 00:59:48.199
that one, So this is really weird unless it was

715
00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:54.280
a different child in America. But clearly Blondie was much

716
00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:58.119
bigger in the UK than it was in not in

717
00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:03.559
amounts of people because we've got much smaller population, but

718
01:00:03.639 --> 01:00:10.960
as far as like the percentage or the amount from

719
01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:15.320
a chart perspective, Blondie we're just reaching a much higher position.

720
01:00:16.519 --> 01:00:20.639
But I'm guessing, like, let's say, for example, the first

721
01:00:20.719 --> 01:00:26.679
number one Half Class in America, that one song probably

722
01:00:26.719 --> 01:00:32.079
sold more singles in America than all of Blondie's songs

723
01:00:32.079 --> 01:00:36.280
did in the UK, all combined, just that one song

724
01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:40.840
in America. So it's you know, you can look at

725
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:48.679
it different directions. I suppose anyway, Blondie was good. That's

726
01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:52.920
all I was trying to say, is I like Blondie.

727
01:00:55.719 --> 01:01:04.519
Fern Kinney the chair going underground, I'm going underground. I

728
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:10.440
like that song together we Are Beautiful. They got to

729
01:01:10.519 --> 01:01:14.360
number one. I don't know what that is though. The

730
01:01:14.440 --> 01:01:19.280
Detroit Spinners. I'm working my way back to you, babe.

731
01:01:20.440 --> 01:01:22.239
That was a good song like that. They got to

732
01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:25.920
number two. This is nineteen eighty. I'm still in nineteen eighty.

733
01:01:26.519 --> 01:01:28.519
I've gone from the first week to the whole year.

734
01:01:30.679 --> 01:01:36.400
Deck Sees Midnight Runners. Gino or Gino got to number two.

735
01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:41.480
Johnny Logan, what's another year. This is seventeenth of May

736
01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:48.320
nineteen eighty got to number two, very first to May

737
01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:55.679
the Mesh a theme from Smash. Theme from Mesh. I'm

738
01:01:55.719 --> 01:02:00.360
not going to read it out because it's a topic

739
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:04.880
that's not really acceptable to say online anymore. But if

740
01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:08.559
you watch Mesh, you know the theme tune. It's I

741
01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:14.199
didn't realize I thought Mesh was because I watched Mesh

742
01:02:14.199 --> 01:02:24.440
for the first time about nineteen eighty four, when I

743
01:02:24.480 --> 01:02:27.480
got my first TV. Might have been eighty five, but

744
01:02:27.519 --> 01:02:30.280
I think it was eighty four. I've got my first

745
01:02:30.280 --> 01:02:36.880
black and white TV, and I just got these memories.

746
01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:40.360
Such it was. It was because I was a bit

747
01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:44.480
of a goggle box person. I was, really I love television.

748
01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:49.599
Television was better than real life for me personally. It's

749
01:02:49.639 --> 01:02:54.360
how I felt and I enjoyed it. It was escapism

750
01:02:54.920 --> 01:02:59.960
and it was more fun than reality. I understand it's

751
01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:02.760
probably not very healthy, but it's just the way it

752
01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:07.000
was back then. That's how my life was. And I

753
01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:18.199
loved television, absolutely loved it. And I remember the first

754
01:03:18.480 --> 01:03:22.639
time ever outside of weekends, like I think on a

755
01:03:22.719 --> 01:03:26.440
Friday and Saturday night, I could stay up later, but

756
01:03:26.519 --> 01:03:28.760
the rest of the week I was in bed by

757
01:03:28.960 --> 01:03:33.920
nine or whatever. Even I don't know what the cutoff was,

758
01:03:33.960 --> 01:03:37.320
but probably nine o'clock when I was a teenager. Earlier

759
01:03:37.360 --> 01:03:40.840
on when I was younger, maybe nine point thirty, maybe

760
01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:48.119
even ten. I don't know. But once I got my TV,

761
01:03:49.880 --> 01:03:55.480
there was no bedtime. Bedtime didn't exist anymore. I'd pretend

762
01:03:55.519 --> 01:03:58.440
to go to bed. I mean, i'd be going up

763
01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:01.360
at like seven in the evening. I'm really tired now.

764
01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:11.039
I just made myself you all. I'd say bye, good

765
01:04:11.159 --> 01:04:13.320
night everybody, and I go ak and I want to kiss.

766
01:04:13.400 --> 01:04:15.519
My brother would say, we don't kissing me. I said,

767
01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:18.360
I'm just happy because I got me TV. And he said, oh,

768
01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:22.480
fair enough, and don't do it again. I said, okay, sorry,

769
01:04:24.079 --> 01:04:26.480
and I go upstairs. I just skip up the stair.

770
01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:28.400
I wouldn't skip up the stairs. I don't. Why would

771
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:32.920
I say that whoever skips up the stairs skipping room

772
01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:37.440
gets tangled in it in the bannerstone. But yeah, anyway

773
01:04:37.519 --> 01:04:40.280
I walked up the stairs, I might ran. I could

774
01:04:40.360 --> 01:04:43.639
run back then, but I might just walked at a

775
01:04:43.639 --> 01:04:47.559
steady pace. It's very difficult for me to remember because

776
01:04:47.559 --> 01:04:51.719
I didn't write anything down in my diary, and even

777
01:04:51.719 --> 01:04:54.880
when I did journals over like twenty five year period,

778
01:04:55.119 --> 01:05:00.840
I never mentioned stairs. Just never came up. I mean,

779
01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:03.519
the only stairs story really is probably when I fell

780
01:05:03.559 --> 01:05:07.719
down the stairs twice. It's down here, and then when

781
01:05:07.719 --> 01:05:10.559
I was a little kid fell down some stairs while

782
01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:13.239
I was holding a box full of little cars. I think,

783
01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:21.280
I think, so oh yeah, and also well, yeah, I

784
01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:23.239
used to pretend to fall down the stairs I could

785
01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:31.599
get days of school. But it didn't really work very well.

786
01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:37.800
So once I was doing it and I wanted my

787
01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:41.519
stepmom to find me at the bottom stairs, I'd be like, oh,

788
01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:46.360
I'll be holding my knee or something, and it worked

789
01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:48.800
a little bit. But on one occasion she was actually

790
01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:51.480
in the bathroom, which is at the top of the stairs,

791
01:05:52.719 --> 01:05:55.440
and she came out as I was doing it, as

792
01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:58.440
I was like pretending to fall down, and she was

793
01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:03.320
watching me the whole time and couldn't really get away

794
01:06:03.320 --> 01:06:09.800
with it anymore. I think he was just watching over

795
01:06:09.840 --> 01:06:14.280
the banister. I'm trying to get my head around. Yeah, yeah,

796
01:06:14.320 --> 01:06:17.559
because the bathroom that was just off of the top

797
01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:24.440
of the stairs. Yeah. So it was so lovely just

798
01:06:24.599 --> 01:06:27.400
watching TV. I got to see things I've never seen before.

799
01:06:28.440 --> 01:06:30.639
Suddenly I could have watched Kojak if I wanted to,

800
01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:37.440
or I could watch or Mash. Never heard of Mesh,

801
01:06:37.960 --> 01:06:44.239
I never heard of I was Cheers, never heard of

802
01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:47.760
Cheers before I was watching these programs I've never heard

803
01:06:47.800 --> 01:06:51.960
of before, and like wow, there's like a whole new

804
01:06:51.960 --> 01:06:55.920
world opened up to me. The past nine o'clock in

805
01:06:55.960 --> 01:07:00.480
the evening, things were happening, and these programs things that

806
01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:03.800
I wasn't allowed to watch, that the family didn't watch together.

807
01:07:06.559 --> 01:07:08.760
That's when I realized I have a very different taste

808
01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:13.039
in programs to the family, you know, like my dad

809
01:07:13.079 --> 01:07:15.920
and whatever. They'd watch stuff on a Saturday night that

810
01:07:18.400 --> 01:07:21.800
I wouldn't watch. I'd watch it because it was part

811
01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:28.400
of the routine, the ritual whatever I want to say, richual,

812
01:07:28.519 --> 01:07:35.199
I don't mean anything weird, just just watching television. There's

813
01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:45.679
no sacrifices or anything, right, right, kids, Logan's Logan runs finished,

814
01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:52.000
the A teams finished, Right, Let's go and get Let's

815
01:07:52.039 --> 01:07:53.760
go in the garden and get all the candles out

816
01:07:54.639 --> 01:08:02.159
and organized today's sacrifice. So Olivia Newton, John Xana Do

817
01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:07.760
an Electric Light Orchestra, don McLean crying? Is that the

818
01:08:07.800 --> 01:08:15.880
one crying over you? Xanad I like Sana do? Sana do?

819
01:08:17.319 --> 01:08:24.359
Sana do? I don't know why Ello the Electric Light

820
01:08:24.920 --> 01:08:28.960
Orchestra did another version of Sandy Do with a different singer. Why,

821
01:08:30.560 --> 01:08:34.880
why would you need to do that I'm not. I'm

822
01:08:34.960 --> 01:08:41.000
not judging, just asking because Olivia Newton John I had

823
01:08:41.199 --> 01:08:46.880
such an amazing voice odyssey that got to number two

824
01:08:47.079 --> 01:08:49.960
in the chants odyssey, I don't know, use it up

825
01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:53.479
and wear it out. I don't have that toilet paper.

826
01:08:53.560 --> 01:08:57.079
I don't know underpants. Abba, The Winner takes it all.

827
01:08:57.119 --> 01:09:02.920
We've got number two. August August nineteen eighty, The Winner

828
01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:09.760
takes it all. It just shows you what I know.

829
01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:13.039
I really thought that Abba had kind of finished. In

830
01:09:13.399 --> 01:09:20.359
seventy nine, David Bowie Ashes to Ashes I got to

831
01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:22.239
number two. So I would have seen it because I

832
01:09:22.279 --> 01:09:25.840
always watched Top of the Pops, so anything in the

833
01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:31.479
top forty I would have seen. Whether or not I

834
01:09:31.720 --> 01:09:34.880
liked it or not, I don't know. I would have

835
01:09:34.920 --> 01:09:41.960
seen it on TV. Ashes to Ashes the jam start

836
01:09:42.800 --> 01:09:46.479
number one. I don't remember that one. Kelly Marie feels

837
01:09:46.520 --> 01:09:50.000
like I'm in love. I know that one they got

838
01:09:50.039 --> 01:09:56.720
to number two feels like I'm in love. I'm in love,

839
01:09:57.199 --> 01:10:02.079
feels like I'm in love. I know it's getting old,

840
01:10:02.079 --> 01:10:05.359
but I'm going to keep doing it. The police don't

841
01:10:05.399 --> 01:10:10.000
stand so close to me. Wow again, I love that

842
01:10:10.159 --> 01:10:13.600
song that was number four.

843
01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:21.880
I'm gonna turn around, see all right, carry on, Vinnie,

844
01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:24.520
but I can't make a movement around him stopping what

845
01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:28.079
he's doing, so the police don't stand so close to me.

846
01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:40.239
Twenty seven for September nineteen eighty Barbers streisand Woman in Love.

847
01:10:43.319 --> 01:10:47.520
I don't think I necessarily particularly appreciated that song at

848
01:10:47.520 --> 01:10:53.600
the time. That was one hell of a song, just

849
01:10:53.640 --> 01:10:59.920
a warm in love. Okay, that didn't do it justice,

850
01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:03.560
but that is a great song. Number three a child

851
01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:08.319
in the UK. I'm going to miss out Blondie because

852
01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:11.920
Oh the tide is high? Was the fifteenth of November

853
01:11:12.039 --> 01:11:16.720
nineteen eighty reached number two? Why is it saying that

854
01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:20.000
when earlier on it said it reached number one? Make

855
01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:33.479
up your mind baby, it's lying to me. Very strange,

856
01:11:34.399 --> 01:11:40.199
very strange, indeed. But fifteenth November nineteen eighty, so I

857
01:11:40.399 --> 01:11:50.399
was ten ten and two months and a half Ebba,

858
01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:53.000
so it would have been dark outside, wasn't it at night?

859
01:11:54.159 --> 01:11:57.560
Especially like seven o'clock or six point thirty whenever that

860
01:11:57.600 --> 01:12:03.640
came on be Radio one. ABBA's Super Trooper got to

861
01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:19.960
number three. It's November nineteen eighty, twenty ninth. Okay, this

862
01:12:20.079 --> 01:12:27.560
is weird. So John Lennon, just like Starting Over twenty

863
01:12:27.560 --> 01:12:31.279
for December nineteen eighty got to number one. No, it's

864
01:12:31.319 --> 01:12:33.279
not weird. I just didn't realize that was the first

865
01:12:33.319 --> 01:12:38.560
one and they released. Yeah, so that's the twentie of December.

866
01:12:39.359 --> 01:12:44.960
That was when John Lennon was unfortunately left us, so

867
01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:52.279
he they released that song and then I didn't remember that.

868
01:12:52.359 --> 01:12:58.039
I remember they I know the song, but for some

869
01:12:58.119 --> 01:13:08.399
reason I thought that they really least am I'm surprised

870
01:13:08.439 --> 01:13:11.880
considering it was like near Christmas, why they didn't release

871
01:13:12.039 --> 01:13:21.640
the Merry Christmas one? Or maybe they put that on

872
01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:40.439
the other side. Wow, that's weird in it h m. Yeah,

873
01:13:40.520 --> 01:13:46.000
so John Imagine and Woman were both It was number

874
01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:54.840
four Imagine and Woman was number two. It was January February.

875
01:13:57.520 --> 01:14:03.439
All right, they've missed out some weeks here. I think

876
01:14:03.439 --> 01:14:06.039
I'll made him up. You know what I've just done.

877
01:14:06.800 --> 01:14:08.760
Do you know what I'm saying? What number it got to?

878
01:14:09.800 --> 01:14:11.920
I made a mistake? That was how many numbers it was?

879
01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:18.479
How many weeks it was at number one? Whoops? Sorry?

880
01:14:18.640 --> 01:14:23.119
So just like Starting Over was number one for one week?

881
01:14:25.279 --> 01:14:28.319
Shall I start over? Shall I start the whole recording? Again,

882
01:14:29.319 --> 01:14:32.840
so Imagine because I'm thinking, wait a minute, Imagine was

883
01:14:32.920 --> 01:14:38.079
number one and started with Woman because I heard a lot.

884
01:14:38.680 --> 01:14:42.319
That was January eighty one, tenth of January nineteen eighty

885
01:14:42.359 --> 01:14:46.479
one for four weeks, and then a Woman seven for

886
01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:53.000
Febebruary nineteen eighty one for two weeks. I love both

887
01:14:53.079 --> 01:15:05.720
those songs, Imagine probably more than Woman. Yeah, I loved Imagine,

888
01:15:06.560 --> 01:15:09.000
but it was I don't know when it was first released.

889
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:12.600
It was in the seventies, wasn't it. When When did

890
01:15:12.600 --> 01:15:21.359
he first release Imagine? Imagine song wow nineteen seventy one,

891
01:15:22.680 --> 01:15:27.039
and it was from his album called John Lennon No Yeah,

892
01:15:27.119 --> 01:15:38.079
John Lennon, eleventh of October nineteen seventy one, So I

893
01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:42.600
very much would have heard it at some point in

894
01:15:42.640 --> 01:15:47.760
the seventies. I just don't remember now. This next song

895
01:15:49.479 --> 01:15:54.880
I remember very well, and it was Joe Dolcy Music

896
01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:59.359
Theater called shut Up Your Face. In fact, I can

897
01:15:59.439 --> 01:16:05.039
even right when I was in my early twenties, this

898
01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:08.199
isn't this is not nineteen eighty one, so not when

899
01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:18.520
I was in my early twenties. I'd been ten back then, yeah, ten,

900
01:16:19.560 --> 01:16:31.960
So me and my friend Terry, this is an alert

901
01:16:32.000 --> 01:16:39.359
early nineties, we had this job where we'd basically processing things,

902
01:16:39.399 --> 01:16:47.960
but labels on things whatever, and there was a this

903
01:16:48.119 --> 01:16:50.600
is just there that one of the supervisors used to

904
01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:55.039
come around and write down the weights of everything, like

905
01:16:55.119 --> 01:16:57.560
it's stand there for a couple of minutes while we

906
01:16:57.600 --> 01:17:00.439
did a good box or a couple of boxes, filled

907
01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:05.159
a couple of boxes up. And for some reason, when

908
01:17:05.199 --> 01:17:09.359
he talked, he just reminded both of us of Joe

909
01:17:09.439 --> 01:17:15.520
Dalcy when he talked in the music and if you've

910
01:17:15.560 --> 01:17:18.960
never seen the video and never seen the song, shut

911
01:17:19.039 --> 01:17:23.840
up your face, then it might not mean anything to you.

912
01:17:23.880 --> 01:17:26.479
But he was he had that kind of He spoke

913
01:17:26.479 --> 01:17:29.119
a bit like that, and for some reason me and

914
01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:31.800
him found of funny. I was a young man. I

915
01:17:31.840 --> 01:17:36.119
don't I'm not excusing myself, but there you have it.

916
01:17:37.359 --> 01:17:39.920
So what we did, and I don't know why, I

917
01:17:39.960 --> 01:17:45.279
don't know how it started. Either he or I would

918
01:17:45.319 --> 01:17:51.600
start it. So once this man let's call him Dorian Dorias,

919
01:17:51.720 --> 01:17:56.159
Dorius or whatever, and he was standing behind us, one

920
01:17:56.159 --> 01:18:02.119
of us would start a conversation, what's the matter you,

921
01:18:03.680 --> 01:18:05.600
that's my first one say. The other one would say,

922
01:18:06.680 --> 01:18:11.920
got no respect, but we're doing in a sentence, so

923
01:18:12.079 --> 01:18:16.560
what's the matter you And the other one say mm hmm,

924
01:18:17.159 --> 01:18:19.640
you've got no respect? Yeah, And the other one would

925
01:18:19.640 --> 01:18:22.960
say what do you think you do? And then the

926
01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:27.600
other one, like me and Terry, might say, why do

927
01:18:27.680 --> 01:18:31.640
you look at? What's the many? Why you don't why

928
01:18:31.720 --> 01:18:35.680
you feel so bad? Is it? What's the may you

929
01:18:38.159 --> 01:18:41.399
wait a second? I do it right over there? What's

930
01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:45.520
the matter you? Hey? Got no respect? What do you

931
01:18:45.520 --> 01:18:49.800
think you do? Why you look so sad? It's not

932
01:18:49.920 --> 01:18:52.600
so bad? And then the would say it's a nicer place,

933
01:18:53.039 --> 01:18:57.079
I'll shut up your face and that. We did it

934
01:18:57.159 --> 01:19:00.239
every single time, and he didn't notice m But we

935
01:19:00.399 --> 01:19:02.359
do it in a kind of COVID way. It wouldn't

936
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:05.880
just like, what's the man? Are you? Hey? Got to

937
01:19:06.039 --> 01:19:09.600
no respect? Oh? What do you think you? Hey? Why

938
01:19:09.600 --> 01:19:13.119
are you look so bad? It's so bad? It's a

939
01:19:13.239 --> 01:19:16.359
nice police. I shad apy of this. That was the song.

940
01:19:17.239 --> 01:19:21.640
And when there was a boy hey the years ago,

941
01:19:22.840 --> 01:19:24.920
we probably did that as well, probably did more of

942
01:19:24.960 --> 01:19:27.199
the song, but I can't remember all of it now.

943
01:19:28.359 --> 01:19:31.000
It wasn't quite so fresh. It was fresh back then,

944
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:34.039
you know, because you think it's nineteen eighty one, it

945
01:19:34.119 --> 01:19:38.520
was only ten years earlier that it was in the

946
01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:40.880
charts at number one for three weeks, so I can't

947
01:19:40.880 --> 01:19:45.119
he it was more fresher now another fifty five years

948
01:19:45.199 --> 01:19:49.840
gone past. But it made us giggle, and that's the

949
01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:57.439
main thing. Really. It's kind of borderline rude as well.

950
01:19:57.479 --> 01:20:02.199
But hey, I'm not responsible. What's that version of me

951
01:20:03.119 --> 01:20:03.520
used to be?

952
01:20:03.720 --> 01:20:03.800
Like?

953
01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:07.880
I would never do that again, and I apologize.

954
01:20:07.239 --> 01:20:08.319
Since thearly.

955
01:20:10.159 --> 01:20:15.600
Roxy Music Jealous Guy? Now, I didn't understand that. I mean, obviously,

956
01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:20.600
I'm gonna say obviously, I don't want to be rude

957
01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:24.000
to Roxy Music, but they clearly brought out that song

958
01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:30.840
off the back of John Lenon situation because it was

959
01:20:30.880 --> 01:20:41.960
literally okay the month after John Lennon Woman. Now, I'd

960
01:20:42.039 --> 01:20:46.760
never heard Jealous Guy before, and I didn't know it

961
01:20:46.800 --> 01:20:55.920
was a John Lennon song. Why Roxy Music can just

962
01:20:56.359 --> 01:20:59.880
let them release John Lennon Jealous Guy? I don't know,

963
01:21:01.039 --> 01:21:03.960
but I'm card of glad he didn't because, and I

964
01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:05.439
don't say this very often.

965
01:21:07.079 --> 01:21:11.119
I like cake, No, that wasn't it.

966
01:21:11.399 --> 01:21:25.920
Why don't Roxy Music's version of Jealousky was better than

967
01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:29.359
John Lennon's version, and John Lennon's version was great as well,

968
01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:34.079
but Roxy Music took it to a different level. My

969
01:21:34.520 --> 01:21:40.079
opinion obviously is my opinion, but so good. It's one

970
01:21:40.119 --> 01:21:46.279
of is one of my favorite songs. Actually, now we're

971
01:21:46.359 --> 01:21:52.399
moving into a territory that is very much. Things seemed

972
01:21:52.479 --> 01:21:57.359
to start to change. This isn't the like nineteen eighty

973
01:21:57.399 --> 01:22:02.359
one period. It's weird. You got through nineteen eighties. You've

974
01:22:02.359 --> 01:22:11.159
got all the Pink Floyd the Pretender's Specials, Kenny Rogers, Blondie,

975
01:22:11.680 --> 01:22:16.239
the jam people from the seventies were still kind of

976
01:22:16.600 --> 01:22:20.640
you know, breaking through to the eighties, the Electric Light Talk, Eyello,

977
01:22:21.359 --> 01:22:28.079
David Bowie, Abba, Barbara Streiss and John Lennon. I know

978
01:22:28.239 --> 01:22:30.239
there's a reason for John Lennon being in charts, but

979
01:22:31.640 --> 01:22:35.479
you know, there's a lot of stuff from the eighties

980
01:22:36.359 --> 01:22:41.720
like that moved over from the seventies and then in

981
01:22:41.720 --> 01:22:46.960
the nineteen eighty one, the nineteen eighty one things started

982
01:22:46.960 --> 01:22:52.960
to change a bit. Shaking Stevens, although admittedly being around

983
01:22:53.000 --> 01:23:04.239
for a long time, became huge and Bucks Fitz they

984
01:23:04.359 --> 01:23:06.840
had Making Your Mind Up, which was number one for

985
01:23:06.880 --> 01:23:10.640
three weeks. They won the Eurovision Song Contest for England

986
01:23:13.600 --> 01:23:15.880
or UK. I'm Not sure if it's Britain or England

987
01:23:15.960 --> 01:23:18.920
or the UK, I lose track. I only live here.

988
01:23:19.399 --> 01:23:25.880
I don't know who they represented, and that was a

989
01:23:25.960 --> 01:23:28.159
huge hit because there was a point where they pulled

990
01:23:28.199 --> 01:23:34.840
their miniskirts off and I was ten at the time.

991
01:23:35.319 --> 01:23:38.279
I don't know why I'm really focusing on my age,

992
01:23:38.960 --> 01:23:43.479
but I didn't disapprove. That's what I'm saying. Shaken Stevens

993
01:23:43.560 --> 01:23:48.680
I was my favorite singer. I feel a little a

994
01:23:48.680 --> 01:23:50.479
bit embarrassed because I thought I liked him when I

995
01:23:50.560 --> 01:23:53.920
was really little. But I was ten ten and a

996
01:23:54.000 --> 01:23:58.000
half at this point, so I wasn't really little, which

997
01:23:58.039 --> 01:24:05.760
doesn't make sense to me because I specifically remember walking

998
01:24:05.800 --> 01:24:11.119
around the field reading the lyrics to Stand and Deliver.

999
01:24:12.159 --> 01:24:18.199
But it was ninth of May nineteen eighty one. No,

1000
01:24:18.520 --> 01:24:22.399
that's fine actually, because I didn't Yeah, that would have

1001
01:24:22.439 --> 01:24:26.199
made sense nineteen eighty one. I started high school in

1002
01:24:26.279 --> 01:24:29.199
September nineteen eighty one, so I've got the it. I've

1003
01:24:29.199 --> 01:24:35.479
got the memories correct. Because I used to have the

1004
01:24:35.600 --> 01:24:39.720
as magazine called Looking Magazine. I get it every week,

1005
01:24:40.560 --> 01:24:43.319
me and my brothers will We had two comics each

1006
01:24:43.840 --> 01:24:50.960
each week. I had Looking and the Dandy so Looking

1007
01:24:51.159 --> 01:24:55.560
was kind of it was more like a TV magazine. Really,

1008
01:24:55.880 --> 01:24:58.680
it was very much to do with TV and the

1009
01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:02.199
charts music. That's what it was really about. It was

1010
01:25:02.279 --> 01:25:09.840
kind of, yeah, TV movies, charts, Yeah, it's brilliant. Yeah.

1011
01:25:09.840 --> 01:25:12.199
I don't know if it's still around, to be honest,

1012
01:25:12.319 --> 01:25:17.680
but it was really good and the dandy was the fun.

1013
01:25:19.039 --> 01:25:22.239
I think Looking was for knowledge. It was for keeping

1014
01:25:22.319 --> 01:25:27.560
up to date and knowing when the next new songs

1015
01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:31.359
coming out, when the next movie, the next TV show,

1016
01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:33.760
you know, like when the A teams coming back up

1017
01:25:33.800 --> 01:25:36.880
on TV again and things like that, and they'd be

1018
01:25:37.000 --> 01:25:43.039
posters that we could get and I think I started reading.

1019
01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:47.279
I was going to say ordering, but someone else got

1020
01:25:47.319 --> 01:25:54.199
it for me. But it was I'm pretty sure we

1021
01:25:54.199 --> 01:25:59.399
were living in the road where the house dot My

1022
01:25:59.439 --> 01:26:09.640
Namogrande moved into, so that'd be nineteen seventy eight and

1023
01:26:09.840 --> 01:26:14.920
seventeen nine seventy eight sort of time. So I started

1024
01:26:14.920 --> 01:26:18.439
getting that then because I remember we were sitting in

1025
01:26:18.479 --> 01:26:21.399
front of the garden, which is a little bit weird

1026
01:26:21.439 --> 01:26:23.319
because we normally wouldn't do that, but it must have

1027
01:26:23.319 --> 01:26:27.199
been very hot, so we were sitting. Because how it

1028
01:26:27.279 --> 01:26:31.600
worked is he had the house. Do you know the

1029
01:26:31.600 --> 01:26:35.119
front of a house, and there's the front door, So

1030
01:26:35.119 --> 01:26:36.880
I'm going to get I'll give you a description of

1031
01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:40.760
the house where I lived. It was my favorite house ever.

1032
01:26:42.239 --> 01:26:44.399
And then my nanny grand had lived there as well.

1033
01:26:44.479 --> 01:26:54.359
For woman then lived there from nineteen seventy nine too,

1034
01:26:54.760 --> 01:27:04.439
probably about two thousand and ten, maybe two thousand and

1035
01:27:04.520 --> 01:27:12.039
nine eight nine seventy ninety nine two, so she was

1036
01:27:12.039 --> 01:27:19.960
there thirty years at least. And I loved that house,

1037
01:27:20.039 --> 01:27:23.039
but it just wasn't big enough for a new sprogue.

1038
01:27:23.279 --> 01:27:31.359
So with my little brother was born, we you know,

1039
01:27:31.359 --> 01:27:33.239
it was okay for a short while because he could

1040
01:27:33.239 --> 01:27:36.039
stay in their bedroom, in the parents' bedroom while he

1041
01:27:36.119 --> 01:27:41.399
was a baby. But you know, babies growing, there was

1042
01:27:41.439 --> 01:27:44.239
solutions like, well, we need to find a solution for

1043
01:27:44.279 --> 01:27:51.399
this situation, and apparently my solution and just getting rid

1044
01:27:51.439 --> 01:27:54.640
of him wasn't a popular one that was voted down,

1045
01:27:55.880 --> 01:28:00.239
so you know, they kept the baby and to a

1046
01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:03.720
bigger house. I wanted to stay there. I had my

1047
01:28:03.720 --> 01:28:08.239
own bedroom. I liked the house. It's the only house

1048
01:28:08.720 --> 01:28:12.880
I've ever liked ever. I loved I loved that house,

1049
01:28:13.159 --> 01:28:17.840
and it was the first nice place I've ever lived,

1050
01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:23.119
and I think because the memories of being there for

1051
01:28:23.159 --> 01:28:27.279
the first year, and also my little brotherly being born

1052
01:28:27.279 --> 01:28:29.199
out was a beautiful time as well, when he was

1053
01:28:29.279 --> 01:28:32.079
running around. It's like having a little puppy, isn't it. Really,

1054
01:28:32.079 --> 01:28:38.359
When you get a baby, it's very entertaining and then

1055
01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:45.640
a novelty wears off. I shouldn't say stuff like that,

1056
01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:56.800
but it is true. So as a kid, it was true, okay, right,

1057
01:28:58.239 --> 01:29:02.319
And then when my nan and Granda living there a

1058
01:29:02.439 --> 01:29:07.159
kind of you know, from ninety one onwards, my men

1059
01:29:07.319 --> 01:29:12.560
was living there on our own, so I was visiting

1060
01:29:12.640 --> 01:29:16.079
and just that house was in my life for forty

1061
01:29:16.159 --> 01:29:21.359
years or thirty thirty odd years, and it is the

1062
01:29:21.399 --> 01:29:26.039
only the only place really, I mean, my dad's house

1063
01:29:26.119 --> 01:29:29.319
now has been in He's lived at the same place

1064
01:29:29.399 --> 01:29:34.960
for since what probably early nineties, So that's a long time,

1065
01:29:35.039 --> 01:29:42.159
isn't it. Yeah, So he's that's sort of ninety two thousand,

1066
01:29:42.399 --> 01:29:47.680
two thousand and ten, twenty thirty five years or whatever

1067
01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:53.159
he's lived there, blimey though, four thirty three, very four.

1068
01:29:55.479 --> 01:29:57.239
So I'm kind of used to him. But I don't

1069
01:29:57.239 --> 01:30:00.359
go very often, but I'm used to that. I used

1070
01:30:00.359 --> 01:30:04.039
to live in here now, although I could really perhaps do.

1071
01:30:03.960 --> 01:30:07.279
Something a little bit better with the police.

1072
01:30:08.279 --> 01:30:12.960
I don't quite know what I mean, how do you

1073
01:30:13.079 --> 01:30:20.600
improve perfection? No? But anyway, so you're looking at the

1074
01:30:20.600 --> 01:30:26.720
front of the house. There's a window downstairs, a window upstairs,

1075
01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:30.359
So the window downstairs on the right, and there's a

1076
01:30:30.399 --> 01:30:33.680
bit of grass on the right, and then there's another

1077
01:30:33.720 --> 01:30:39.840
house connected, so it was a semi detached house. The

1078
01:30:39.880 --> 01:30:46.720
other house connected was basically just the opposite, although they

1079
01:30:46.760 --> 01:30:50.239
did knock through so when we're going there, they knocked.

1080
01:30:49.920 --> 01:31:00.920
Through the living room into the Yeah, they knocked through

1081
01:31:00.920 --> 01:31:05.359
the living room into the kitchen, and I think I

1082
01:31:05.439 --> 01:31:08.479
had an extension as well, so it's a much bigger

1083
01:31:08.520 --> 01:31:13.920
space inside their house. But then they had less guard

1084
01:31:13.960 --> 01:31:15.600
because the back garden wasn't big.

1085
01:31:15.800 --> 01:31:18.279
Really, it was a nice size. I mean, I'd be

1086
01:31:18.359 --> 01:31:24.520
very happy with size, a small or small one. I mean,

1087
01:31:24.600 --> 01:31:26.399
small one is better than no one at all, isn't it,

1088
01:31:27.039 --> 01:31:32.479
you know what I mean. So, but looking at the front,

1089
01:31:33.680 --> 01:31:36.560
the window downstairs was for the living room, for the

1090
01:31:36.600 --> 01:31:40.159
living room. The windows upstairs, the one above that was

1091
01:31:40.199 --> 01:31:43.760
for the what was my name's bedroom. It was originally

1092
01:31:46.600 --> 01:31:50.199
my dad's in his wife's bedroom, and then you got

1093
01:31:50.199 --> 01:31:55.319
the front doors had left upstairs from that. The first

1094
01:31:56.960 --> 01:32:03.119
window up there was my big room window mine, mine

1095
01:32:03.159 --> 01:32:09.640
my first ever bedroom, my first ever bedroom. I mean, wow,

1096
01:32:11.640 --> 01:32:17.920
I had it's my first as a child, I had

1097
01:32:18.119 --> 01:32:21.960
three bedrooms of my own. I was very lucky, actually

1098
01:32:23.239 --> 01:32:28.840
that I mean in a way, although I didn't you

1099
01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:32.199
know it was. I preferred the small house, but both

1100
01:32:32.239 --> 01:32:35.119
my older brothers were sharing a room. Wasn't really fair

1101
01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:40.239
on them. But I did realize at the time, although

1102
01:32:40.239 --> 01:32:43.720
it wasn't fair on them, my happiness was way more important.

1103
01:32:44.560 --> 01:32:48.159
I realized that when I was seven, I came to

1104
01:32:48.239 --> 01:32:52.840
that conclusion. And when I was eight, I thought, yeah,

1105
01:32:52.880 --> 01:32:57.439
there's too many of us. Now one of the older

1106
01:32:57.439 --> 01:33:00.960
ones needs to move out. Maybe if that both of

1107
01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:02.880
the older ones move out, then the baby can go

1108
01:33:02.920 --> 01:33:05.720
into the other room. Well I can move into that

1109
01:33:05.800 --> 01:33:07.520
room because it's bigger, and you can move into the

1110
01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:13.560
small room, and we just don't mention the other brothers. Again.

1111
01:33:15.319 --> 01:33:17.239
But you know, I was eight years old. Logic wasn't

1112
01:33:17.800 --> 01:33:23.720
at the top. I just I don't think I was

1113
01:33:23.800 --> 01:33:26.880
built for a big family. I know some people say, well,

1114
01:33:26.920 --> 01:33:29.479
it's only four kids, it's not a big family, but

1115
01:33:29.560 --> 01:33:37.079
it's it was noisy, very very very noisy, very chaotic

1116
01:33:37.119 --> 01:33:47.239
at times, and I don't know, I kind of I

1117
01:33:47.319 --> 01:33:53.319
didn't always enjoy it, if I'm honest. I was very

1118
01:33:53.359 --> 01:33:57.399
different from them, and we were all very different, really.

1119
01:33:58.279 --> 01:34:03.920
I just I was really into crowds, and four kids

1120
01:34:04.079 --> 01:34:11.560
two adults is a crowd. That's a crowded space. I

1121
01:34:11.760 --> 01:34:16.239
liked my space. I remember my dad showing up at

1122
01:34:16.279 --> 01:34:21.159
the window once and where are you, Jason? I said,

1123
01:34:22.920 --> 01:34:28.760
I'm in my I'm here in the bedroom. I said,

1124
01:34:28.760 --> 01:34:31.039
why are you asking me where I am? It's what

1125
01:34:31.039 --> 01:34:34.279
do you mean? I said, you're literally standing below my window,

1126
01:34:34.359 --> 01:34:37.760
shouting up at my window asking me where I am.

1127
01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:41.119
If you didn't know where I was, then why would

1128
01:34:41.159 --> 01:34:43.960
you be looking at the window. You literally know I'm here,

1129
01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:47.800
don't you? He said, I can see you now. I said, no,

1130
01:34:47.880 --> 01:34:50.159
I mean before I was standing at the window, you

1131
01:34:50.199 --> 01:34:52.840
were showing up at the window. And he said, how

1132
01:34:52.840 --> 01:34:55.159
do you know I stand at the window showing up

1133
01:34:55.199 --> 01:34:57.319
If you weren't at the window looking down, how do

1134
01:34:57.359 --> 01:35:00.279
you know where I was? I said, because when I

1135
01:35:00.279 --> 01:35:04.000
got to the window, you were standing there. I said,

1136
01:35:04.039 --> 01:35:06.199
maybe when I got to the window. You were standing there,

1137
01:35:07.359 --> 01:35:11.479
and he said that one of us said it, and

1138
01:35:11.680 --> 01:35:16.520
he said, should we just stop this now? I said,

1139
01:35:16.520 --> 01:35:20.600
what do you mean? He said, well, I don't know.

1140
01:35:20.600 --> 01:35:23.640
I'd just rather go back to talking about the music.

1141
01:35:25.439 --> 01:35:27.039
I mean, how did you even get on to talking

1142
01:35:27.079 --> 01:35:32.039
about rooms and you know, wishing you'd had a smaller family.

1143
01:35:32.560 --> 01:35:36.199
How do you get from Blondie and Shaking Stevens and

1144
01:35:36.239 --> 01:35:40.039
bucks fizz and to that? I mean, you were talking

1145
01:35:40.079 --> 01:35:46.039
about walking around the field, readd the lyrics from Looking magazine,

1146
01:35:46.720 --> 01:35:49.159
and you will confused whether or not that memory was

1147
01:35:49.239 --> 01:35:52.680
correct because you remember doing that around your like the

1148
01:35:52.680 --> 01:35:56.720
little school you went to, and you had to correct

1149
01:35:56.800 --> 01:35:59.680
and realize that everyone that's true, but it was true

1150
01:35:59.720 --> 01:36:03.560
because you weren't in high school yet. I said, okay,

1151
01:36:07.159 --> 01:36:08.159
I said, well what what what?

1152
01:36:08.239 --> 01:36:08.279
What?

1153
01:36:08.520 --> 01:36:11.880
What are you getting at? He said, I don't how.

1154
01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:14.159
I thought we'd just maybe get back to the music.

1155
01:36:15.680 --> 01:36:19.840
I said, all about the description of the house, He said,

1156
01:36:19.840 --> 01:36:21.960
do you think anyone really wants to know the description

1157
01:36:22.079 --> 01:36:24.880
of a house that you lived in when you were

1158
01:36:24.960 --> 01:36:34.079
eight years old? I don't know. Some people might, he said,

1159
01:36:34.359 --> 01:36:38.399
how many how many rooms was there or bedrooms you mean,

1160
01:36:39.319 --> 01:36:49.520
he said, yeah, three and downstairs? What was there? Living room? Kitchen, yeah, kitchen,

1161
01:36:51.079 --> 01:36:54.920
anything else or well, there was a bathroom upstairs, and

1162
01:36:54.960 --> 01:36:58.399
there's a toilet downstairs. But the bathroom also had a toilet,

1163
01:36:59.600 --> 01:37:04.000
but the it was very small, not the toilet itself.

1164
01:37:04.399 --> 01:37:09.159
The toilet was normal size, but the room that the

1165
01:37:09.199 --> 01:37:15.840
toilet was in was quite small. In fact, it was

1166
01:37:17.399 --> 01:37:19.000
a little bit of a struggle to get in there

1167
01:37:19.000 --> 01:37:22.560
when I was sort of a bit bigger, got stuck once.

1168
01:37:24.479 --> 01:37:28.960
But I don't want to talk about it. Very hard

1169
01:37:29.000 --> 01:37:34.119
to maneuver because there's certain maneuvers during a toilet session

1170
01:37:34.760 --> 01:37:40.039
that needs a degree of movement and flexibility, and if

1171
01:37:40.039 --> 01:37:44.960
you're squashed against two walls, it's hard, you know, without

1172
01:37:45.000 --> 01:37:49.399
sort of going into details on tell me more, Tell

1173
01:37:49.399 --> 01:37:53.319
me more. Did you get very far? Tell me more?

1174
01:37:53.359 --> 01:37:58.760
Tell me more? Like did he have a car? Right? Okay,

1175
01:37:58.880 --> 01:38:04.520
back to the side, Adam and head Standard Deliver. So

1176
01:38:04.720 --> 01:38:15.600
I remember seeing on morning TV, probably Saturday morning, there

1177
01:38:15.720 --> 01:38:19.720
was a I could not a documentary, but there was

1178
01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:22.920
like a short thing where they were talking about the

1179
01:38:23.000 --> 01:38:29.439
behind the scenes of making that video Standard Deliver. I

1180
01:38:29.479 --> 01:38:31.239
don't if you remember the lyrics flat it was then

1181
01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:36.880
stand and deliver your money or your life. Try and

1182
01:38:37.039 --> 01:38:40.720
use a mirror, not a bullet or a knife. And

1183
01:38:40.880 --> 01:38:52.119
even though you, even though you choose to blow, your

1184
01:38:52.199 --> 01:38:57.560
conscience will be mine or mine even though you choose

1185
01:38:57.640 --> 01:39:04.840
to know what the word was I missed out. Actually

1186
01:39:04.920 --> 01:39:09.079
to start with it would be oh oh ho oh

1187
01:39:09.800 --> 01:39:15.159
oh hoo do do do? I know? As a don't

1188
01:39:15.239 --> 01:39:20.680
you ever? Don't? Okay? A different song. I remember this one,

1189
01:39:21.000 --> 01:39:27.319
Smoky Robinson being with You. It's that the one and

1190
01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:29.600
okay what they say a batter me?

1191
01:39:29.920 --> 01:39:32.000
And okay, what did you?

1192
01:39:32.960 --> 01:39:37.479
And okay about anything else but being with you? Being

1193
01:39:37.560 --> 01:39:38.079
with you?

1194
01:39:39.159 --> 01:39:44.079
People to say and they als do and did end

1195
01:39:44.239 --> 01:39:44.680
for you?

1196
01:39:46.039 --> 01:39:49.560
I remember the he was walking on the beach, Smoky

1197
01:39:49.680 --> 01:39:55.279
Robinson with his really soft voice, walking on the beach,

1198
01:39:55.640 --> 01:39:58.520
maybe barefoot, I don't know. I wasn't looking at his feet,

1199
01:39:58.920 --> 01:40:00.680
I wasn't looking at any part body. I was saying

1200
01:40:00.680 --> 01:40:03.359
that I was particularly focused on his feet. But I

1201
01:40:03.399 --> 01:40:10.079
do remember it was a beach and it was at

1202
01:40:10.119 --> 01:40:13.159
number one for two weeks, and I liked that song.

1203
01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:20.720
Now I don't remember Michael Jackson being number one with

1204
01:40:20.920 --> 01:40:26.319
one Day in your Life because from the looks of it,

1205
01:40:26.399 --> 01:40:29.960
Michael Jackson did not have a number one during nineteen

1206
01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:34.399
eighty the nineteen eighty one, twenty seventh of June, he

1207
01:40:34.520 --> 01:40:40.960
had One Day Your Life. So I'm surprised at that.

1208
01:40:41.319 --> 01:40:45.000
Why was that? Just the reason I'm surprised is because

1209
01:40:47.560 --> 01:40:56.720
he had Off the Wall, which was either I think

1210
01:40:56.720 --> 01:40:59.760
it was seventy nine, and One Day in Your Life

1211
01:40:59.880 --> 01:41:07.239
was not on Off the Wall. So where did one

1212
01:41:07.319 --> 01:41:12.840
Day in Your Life? It was released in ninety from

1213
01:41:12.920 --> 01:41:17.279
the album One Day in Your Life nineteen eighty one. Really,

1214
01:41:24.720 --> 01:41:27.119
so I'm confused. So I'm looking at One Day in

1215
01:41:27.119 --> 01:41:29.800
Your Life as a song recorded by American singer Mark

1216
01:41:29.920 --> 01:41:35.079
Jackson for his nineteen seventy five album Forever Michael, which

1217
01:41:35.359 --> 01:41:40.199
I like, that's that album's great album. Lyrics by Rene

1218
01:41:40.399 --> 01:41:43.920
Armond was issued as a single in the UK nineteen

1219
01:41:44.000 --> 01:41:50.720
seventy five, and later released March twentieth, nineteen eighty one,

1220
01:41:51.319 --> 01:41:54.880
as a single from the compilation album One Day in

1221
01:41:54.920 --> 01:42:00.319
Your Life. Due to the commercial interest that generates from

1222
01:42:00.359 --> 01:42:05.640
the sales of Jackson's hit nineteen seventy nine album Off

1223
01:42:05.640 --> 01:42:13.600
the Wall. Okay, while a modest US hit, it was

1224
01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:19.880
bigger hit in the UK. It became a sixth Best

1225
01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:24.399
Sller single of nineteen eighty one. That's kind of weird,

1226
01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:28.439
not not weird. Just if I think of nineteen eighty one,

1227
01:42:29.359 --> 01:42:33.359
I thought that he released Thriller and maybe it was

1228
01:42:33.479 --> 01:42:44.079
later on the night Shake and Stevens Julie, Oh, Julie,

1229
01:42:44.359 --> 01:42:48.880
I love Shaking Stephens. I used to dance like Shaking Stephens,

1230
01:42:49.039 --> 01:42:51.119
or as I I used to like it to say that,

1231
01:42:51.399 --> 01:42:54.079
other if like I said it words at the time,

1232
01:42:54.359 --> 01:42:57.960
I to decide to tell people shaking Stevens likes to

1233
01:42:58.159 --> 01:43:04.560
dance like me. Craftwork the Model. Now I don't remember

1234
01:43:04.560 --> 01:43:09.199
this sort of at the time. Great song shoes on

1235
01:43:09.279 --> 01:43:13.520
the model and she's looking good. Do do Do Do

1236
01:43:13.520 --> 01:43:19.840
Do Do Do Do? I love that song. They're the

1237
01:43:19.920 --> 01:43:24.640
type of songs that I just don't hear anywhere. I don't,

1238
01:43:25.960 --> 01:43:28.239
you know, I kind of forget about them, and they

1239
01:43:28.279 --> 01:43:30.880
want to hear them. I think, Wow, I love that

1240
01:43:31.039 --> 01:43:40.359
song the jam Town called Alice Malice rather sorry, and

1241
01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:43.880
I like that as well as good old type fit.

1242
01:43:46.000 --> 01:43:51.239
Does anyone remember this one in the jungle the jungle

1243
01:43:51.960 --> 01:43:53.560
line Steves to Know.

1244
01:43:55.199 --> 01:43:56.319
The John God.

1245
01:43:57.600 --> 01:44:00.439
Have a good song like that? Number three weeks it

1246
01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:06.199
was number one. I'm just going to go down Paul

1247
01:44:06.279 --> 01:44:10.319
McCartney and Stevie Wonder Ebony and Ivory twenty fourth of

1248
01:44:10.319 --> 01:44:18.520
April nineteen eighty two. Wow. Now I would have been

1249
01:44:19.800 --> 01:44:29.239
eleven years old. So I was in the first year

1250
01:44:29.279 --> 01:44:38.359
of high school, Bernie and for so Yeah, I was

1251
01:44:38.439 --> 01:44:44.840
number one for three weeks. I loved that song. I

1252
01:44:45.000 --> 01:44:47.960
used to sing the lyrics. It's something I used to

1253
01:44:48.039 --> 01:44:55.920
do in high school. Not all the time, but sometimes

1254
01:44:55.920 --> 01:45:00.319
I need to be on my own and i' walk

1255
01:45:00.359 --> 01:45:03.800
around the field, the playfield, and I would sing to

1256
01:45:03.880 --> 01:45:08.399
myself and I'd sing the songs like Ebony and Ivory,

1257
01:45:08.680 --> 01:45:14.039
or I'd sing Madness songs or you know, different songs.

1258
01:45:15.439 --> 01:45:17.359
But that was one of my favorite songs at the time.

1259
01:45:20.119 --> 01:45:24.399
Nicole A little piece. I don't know that one Madness

1260
01:45:24.560 --> 01:45:27.960
House of Fun. I got to number one for two weeks.

1261
01:45:28.119 --> 01:45:31.079
Goodie two Shoes, Adam and Heir or No Adam ant

1262
01:45:31.560 --> 01:45:39.720
or Adam Anian's Captain Sensible, Happy talk, happy talking, talking,

1263
01:45:39.760 --> 01:45:43.720
happy talk, talk about things you like to do. Love

1264
01:45:43.800 --> 01:45:49.920
that song. I've never been to me, Charlene. It's a

1265
01:45:49.960 --> 01:45:52.479
great song as well. Wow, I forgot about that one.

1266
01:45:53.279 --> 01:45:57.319
And then of course fame I want to Live Forever

1267
01:45:58.760 --> 01:46:04.199
And that was July nighte to Dex's Midnight Runners, Come On,

1268
01:46:04.520 --> 01:46:11.560
Eileen and number four. That was number one for four

1269
01:46:11.600 --> 01:46:16.560
weeks August eighty two. And yeah, I remember that that

1270
01:46:16.720 --> 01:46:20.319
was a really popular song during my disco years. We're

1271
01:46:20.359 --> 01:46:24.399
not a DJ and Survivor. Was it because you just

1272
01:46:24.399 --> 01:46:26.520
played this at the beginning that there's the first few

1273
01:46:27.119 --> 01:46:29.800
chords of the song do do Do Do Do Do

1274
01:46:29.800 --> 01:46:32.479
Do and be with no I just like do do

1275
01:46:32.640 --> 01:46:37.840
do do do do do you know with wham do

1276
01:46:37.840 --> 01:46:40.239
do do do Do Do Do Do do do do

1277
01:46:40.239 --> 01:46:45.920
do do? Okay, it sounded it sounded kind of right

1278
01:46:46.039 --> 01:46:49.239
to me when I first started singing it. I have

1279
01:46:49.319 --> 01:46:53.319
the Tiger by Survivor. Great song, but that was like Rockie,

1280
01:46:53.359 --> 01:46:58.039
wasn't it. I have the tag? Oh yeah, that was

1281
01:46:58.119 --> 01:47:00.960
number one for four weeks. Song. Yes, in that was

1282
01:47:01.039 --> 01:47:06.680
because of the Rocky movie. Oh, this is another song

1283
01:47:06.760 --> 01:47:11.199
that I don't hear very often past the Ducci the

1284
01:47:11.399 --> 01:47:16.680
musical Youth nineteen eighty two October and I still to

1285
01:47:16.720 --> 01:47:22.359
this day do not know what they're talking about or

1286
01:47:22.439 --> 01:47:26.279
what they were saying, Like is like Eastern Nariation, their

1287
01:47:26.359 --> 01:47:34.079
Vorisian wherever. It's like what I love them? I actually, yeah, wow.

1288
01:47:34.479 --> 01:47:41.359
I bought their album, one of the first ever albums

1289
01:47:41.399 --> 01:47:48.279
I bought. I bought that album Musical Youth. I did,

1290
01:47:48.319 --> 01:47:51.680
I did, I did, and I listened to all of it.

1291
01:47:51.720 --> 01:47:58.439
I liked all these songs. Culture Club do You Really

1292
01:47:58.439 --> 01:48:01.039
Want to Hurt Me? Now? Wature Club was a weird

1293
01:48:01.039 --> 01:48:03.560
one because I loved all that stuff as well. Nineteen

1294
01:48:03.600 --> 01:48:08.560
eighty two, twenty third of October. I don't know if

1295
01:48:08.600 --> 01:48:10.279
it's the first song, but it's the first song to

1296
01:48:10.279 --> 01:48:15.199
get to number one according to this now. I remember

1297
01:48:15.239 --> 01:48:21.399
we was on holiday in Whales and we were watching

1298
01:48:21.399 --> 01:48:24.039
the TV black and white TV. We had this little

1299
01:48:24.119 --> 01:48:29.800
portable thing running off a generator and we're all sitting around.

1300
01:48:30.079 --> 01:48:36.720
Maybe there's a campfire. I don't know if that is

1301
01:48:36.720 --> 01:48:39.319
Probably during the day it was summer, so might opinion

1302
01:48:39.319 --> 01:48:41.479
in the evening. It's not really relevant, is it to

1303
01:48:41.520 --> 01:48:44.760
the story. We need to know precisely what tam it

1304
01:48:44.960 --> 01:48:49.760
was and what is everyone wearing, and who had the

1305
01:48:49.760 --> 01:48:54.520
most regular bowel movement at that time. No, we don't

1306
01:48:54.520 --> 01:49:02.199
need any information. I there was a conversation right about

1307
01:49:02.239 --> 01:49:08.119
boy George, because Boy George was so pretty. If you

1308
01:49:08.119 --> 01:49:18.399
could look back, he was a very attractive person, beautiful eyes,

1309
01:49:18.640 --> 01:49:21.720
you know, just saying it's just I would say factual.

1310
01:49:22.319 --> 01:49:29.239
He's very I loved him. Anyway. We were having this

1311
01:49:29.399 --> 01:49:35.399
argument between us, so the five of us there is

1312
01:49:35.439 --> 01:49:42.479
what is there? Me, my oldest brother, my other brother

1313
01:49:42.560 --> 01:49:47.279
that was also older than me, the father, the mother,

1314
01:49:47.720 --> 01:49:53.479
and we're all saying arguing between us, like is it

1315
01:49:53.560 --> 01:49:55.439
a boy or is it a girl? Is it a

1316
01:49:55.479 --> 01:50:00.359
man or is it a woman? You know, apart my little

1317
01:50:00.399 --> 01:50:05.039
brother who was he was just like I want to

1318
01:50:05.039 --> 01:50:07.520
do a pooh, I need a pooh because it was

1319
01:50:07.520 --> 01:50:11.279
only four years old, wasn't he He wasn't too interested

1320
01:50:11.279 --> 01:50:21.239
in culture club. I'm pretty sure one of us, maybe me,

1321
01:50:21.680 --> 01:50:24.640
I don't know, maybe someone else said maybe it's in

1322
01:50:24.720 --> 01:50:29.800
the name boy George. But the lips nag it girl.

1323
01:50:30.000 --> 01:50:34.319
She looks nag it girl. It was confusing because back

1324
01:50:34.359 --> 01:50:44.000
then and his name is boy George. It was kind

1325
01:50:44.000 --> 01:50:49.359
of it was kind of it's weird, but oh, he

1326
01:50:49.560 --> 01:50:57.079
was so gorgeous. He's still doing good. I've seen him, well,

1327
01:50:57.199 --> 01:51:02.199
not recent but like in recent years on these music

1328
01:51:02.279 --> 01:51:07.920
shows that he he does where he's a judge and

1329
01:51:08.000 --> 01:51:13.239
he just he seems to be ageless. I'd say another

1330
01:51:13.279 --> 01:51:22.239
one was beautiful and as adamant. I don't honestly, he

1331
01:51:22.439 --> 01:51:25.359
just he will all let make up, but he didn't

1332
01:51:25.359 --> 01:51:28.000
need because that was part of his act, wasn't it.

1333
01:51:28.479 --> 01:51:37.760
But he was super handsome, actually pretty, he was pretty anyway.

1334
01:51:37.800 --> 01:51:40.840
I don't know why I'm talking about that Beasts, Yeah,

1335
01:51:41.239 --> 01:51:42.960
because they were kind of the same kind of period

1336
01:51:42.960 --> 01:51:48.640
when they I suppose Eddie Grant, Oh don't one of

1337
01:51:48.800 --> 01:51:52.960
Dad's wasn't that? Also on the Beach that was at

1338
01:51:53.039 --> 01:51:58.159
number one for three weeks? The jam Beat Surrender don't

1339
01:51:58.159 --> 01:52:04.199
remember that one? Renee and Srinato, eighteenth of December eighty two,

1340
01:52:04.600 --> 01:52:09.560
four weeks. I remember this one. I'm not going to

1341
01:52:09.640 --> 01:52:12.800
sing it, but he was like, save if your love,

1342
01:52:12.960 --> 01:52:18.520
my darling, see if your Love, and it was great.

1343
01:52:22.159 --> 01:52:24.319
So that was a two. I could go on. I'm

1344
01:52:24.319 --> 01:52:26.479
going to do a three because eighty three was a

1345
01:52:26.479 --> 01:52:31.119
big year. This is probably when I got into my

1346
01:52:31.199 --> 01:52:36.119
favorite songs. And it's not just because Michael Jackson was

1347
01:52:36.159 --> 01:52:40.359
in the charts, but some of my top songs I

1348
01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:45.680
would say, oh maybe not, but not all of my songs,

1349
01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:48.960
I like, got to number one, but you've got Phil Collins,

1350
01:52:49.039 --> 01:52:54.119
you can't hurry love Mente Work down Under and well

1351
01:52:54.319 --> 01:52:58.000
It's okay two of my favorite songs that I remember

1352
01:52:58.960 --> 01:53:02.079
that year because that's when I went to hospital. I

1353
01:53:02.119 --> 01:53:07.399
had my appendix out Men at Work down Under and

1354
01:53:07.640 --> 01:53:12.039
Bonnie Tyler totally Gibs at the Heart. Both those songs

1355
01:53:12.119 --> 01:53:16.920
were my favorite songs at the time, so I had

1356
01:53:17.000 --> 01:53:20.840
my appendix out. Probably I don't know Summer eighty three

1357
01:53:22.920 --> 01:53:30.600
my moves, maybe like June May, June May. Maybe I

1358
01:53:30.600 --> 01:53:34.119
don't know. I was still at school. God, that would

1359
01:53:34.119 --> 01:53:37.399
have actually that I'd have been distraught. If I'd had

1360
01:53:37.439 --> 01:53:41.760
to have that time in hospital and then that time

1361
01:53:41.800 --> 01:53:46.720
recovering and didn't get to lose any school time, that

1362
01:53:46.760 --> 01:53:50.119
would have been well. Luckily I did. I managed to

1363
01:53:50.119 --> 01:53:58.199
lose some time at school, so that was good. Goo

1364
01:53:58.239 --> 01:54:02.399
Goo catch a Goo goo too, Shy Michael Jackson, Billy

1365
01:54:02.479 --> 01:54:07.680
Jean got to number one. Duran DuRane? Is this something

1366
01:54:07.760 --> 01:54:13.359
I should know? Oh? Remember? This was some Is there

1367
01:54:13.479 --> 01:54:17.439
something I should know? Is it something I should know?

1368
01:54:18.319 --> 01:54:22.239
Is the something I should know? See? I never give up?

1369
01:54:23.119 --> 01:54:30.800
David Bowry. Let's dance. Let's dance span that buddy true,

1370
01:54:33.239 --> 01:54:41.439
So I would say every Breath you Take, new edition

1371
01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:46.039
Candy Girl. I like that song. Every Breath You Take

1372
01:54:46.199 --> 01:54:51.920
was good Rodster Paul Young wherever I laid my hat

1373
01:54:55.319 --> 01:54:59.399
the this is weird because something's missing and I'm going

1374
01:54:59.439 --> 01:55:03.720
to skip head. So Culture Club, come a comedian. Red

1375
01:55:03.760 --> 01:55:08.279
red Wine here be forty. I remember listening to Red

1376
01:55:08.319 --> 01:55:13.239
red Wine and that was one of my favorite songs

1377
01:55:13.640 --> 01:55:17.479
of that year as well, But I don't remember that

1378
01:55:17.640 --> 01:55:21.079
little rapping bit at the end. You see, that's the

1379
01:55:21.239 --> 01:55:27.479
ice cream van. It's been like a hurricane out there,

1380
01:55:27.560 --> 01:55:38.800
half a hurricane today. That was very loud. Yeah, it

1381
01:55:38.840 --> 01:55:42.800
was a very loud ice cream van. It's almost like

1382
01:55:42.880 --> 01:55:50.439
it was inside the building. Yeah. Paul Young love Poor

1383
01:55:50.520 --> 01:55:57.079
Young ub forty wed red Wine obviously the rolling roller

1384
01:55:57.359 --> 01:56:00.960
skating rink that we had, and it was a size

1385
01:56:01.000 --> 01:56:03.239
it wasn't like a size of a small garden. It

1386
01:56:03.319 --> 01:56:06.479
wasn't like a big thing. It was brilliant. Because there

1387
01:56:06.520 --> 01:56:10.079
was very very little to do where I lived, so

1388
01:56:10.119 --> 01:56:13.479
I used to go there and I remember listening to

1389
01:56:13.600 --> 01:56:17.000
Red red Wine because they'd played songs, hit songs, probably

1390
01:56:17.079 --> 01:56:20.800
probably jukebox or maybe I don't know from where. Maybe

1391
01:56:20.840 --> 01:56:24.279
it was from the radio and they'd play that loudspeakers,

1392
01:56:25.479 --> 01:56:32.520
and sometimes I'd think that I was There was a

1393
01:56:32.560 --> 01:56:35.880
mixture of characters that I'd like to play. One was

1394
01:56:38.119 --> 01:56:42.560
Inspector Cluso, but then there was also mixed in with

1395
01:56:44.800 --> 01:56:52.159
Frank Spencer, like clumsy, excellent, prone and doing weird things.

1396
01:56:52.159 --> 01:56:55.680
So I'd end up roller skating around the wrong way

1397
01:56:55.720 --> 01:56:58.039
because there was one way to skate, and I'd go

1398
01:56:58.119 --> 01:57:04.319
round the wrong way and be screaming out and basically

1399
01:57:06.760 --> 01:57:12.199
only amusing myself. No one else found it interesting or humorous.

1400
01:57:12.359 --> 01:57:14.680
I was just but I thought it was brilliant, but

1401
01:57:14.840 --> 01:57:22.159
unfortunately I used to lose control and yeah, but it was.

1402
01:57:22.560 --> 01:57:25.960
It was fun for me, not for anyone else, but

1403
01:57:26.000 --> 01:57:30.279
for me. And you know what they did. They got

1404
01:57:30.359 --> 01:57:34.199
rid of I say they the town or whoever got

1405
01:57:34.279 --> 01:57:37.039
rid of the roll of the roller skating disc thing

1406
01:57:38.039 --> 01:57:41.119
like a disco. Really, but they got rid of it

1407
01:57:41.159 --> 01:57:44.000
was outside I think my ain maybe he did have

1408
01:57:44.000 --> 01:57:46.520
a cover on it. I don't know. They got rid

1409
01:57:46.560 --> 01:57:51.560
of it and they put in like a dustbin. They

1410
01:57:51.680 --> 01:58:00.960
replaced it with some kind of a place for dustbins.

1411
01:58:00.439 --> 01:58:02.520
It really and it was one of the best places

1412
01:58:02.520 --> 01:58:09.920
to go in town the kids, and it was the

1413
01:58:09.920 --> 01:58:14.079
first time I'd ever roller skated, and the roller skates

1414
01:58:14.079 --> 01:58:18.119
were old. Never had anyone anyone that could fit me.

1415
01:58:18.800 --> 01:58:21.960
You know, my feet were extra big, I'd like clowns feet.

1416
01:58:24.680 --> 01:58:29.279
That's why I discovered I was never able to swim

1417
01:58:29.359 --> 01:58:32.680
above water, but underwater I could get from one end

1418
01:58:32.840 --> 01:58:36.760
to the other in like three seconds because of my

1419
01:58:36.800 --> 01:58:40.520
big feet. I just I used to do the Man

1420
01:58:40.560 --> 01:58:45.279
from Atlantis started swimming where I just basically looked like

1421
01:58:45.319 --> 01:58:48.920
an eel, just flapping and I if you ever seen

1422
01:58:48.920 --> 01:58:55.000
men from Atlantis, just google it or YouTube like Man

1423
01:58:55.039 --> 01:58:58.239
from Atlantis swimming and you'll see how he swims. That's

1424
01:58:58.239 --> 01:59:05.000
how I used to swim. It was. Yeah, it's very

1425
01:59:05.439 --> 01:59:08.920
I'm surprised I didn't hurt myself, although sometimes I did.

1426
01:59:09.000 --> 01:59:12.560
Used to bang myself on the on the face because

1427
01:59:12.800 --> 01:59:16.159
I could always see when I was getting to the end.

1428
01:59:17.520 --> 01:59:21.239
But I used to do complete lengths underwater, but I

1429
01:59:21.279 --> 01:59:23.880
struggled to do half a length on top of the water.

1430
01:59:27.680 --> 01:59:31.239
Billy Joel, Uptown girl, I remember that. The flying pickets

1431
01:59:31.720 --> 01:59:34.000
I quite a note. I'm not saying I remember Uptown

1432
01:59:34.039 --> 01:59:37.039
girl like I forgot all about that song. No, I

1433
01:59:37.079 --> 01:59:41.039
mean I remember, like the original when it came out,

1434
01:59:41.479 --> 01:59:44.680
The Flying Pickets. I liked this. This was a number

1435
01:59:44.680 --> 01:59:50.039
one for five weeks, and I remember because I think

1436
01:59:50.079 --> 01:59:57.199
it was number one at Christmas. Yeah, it was. And

1437
01:59:57.640 --> 02:00:03.279
it was basically the a cappella. So they all sung together,

1438
02:00:03.319 --> 02:00:07.039
but there's no music. Do do do Do Do do?

1439
02:00:08.039 --> 02:00:10.479
So one was ay do do do do do do

1440
02:00:10.479 --> 02:00:10.720
do do.

1441
02:00:10.800 --> 02:00:13.680
But then someone was to go ooh ooh.

1442
02:00:14.119 --> 02:00:18.159
Someone else would be singing la la la, la la la,

1443
02:00:18.920 --> 02:00:24.520
and another person would go oh oh. And together it

1444
02:00:24.600 --> 02:00:27.920
sounded ridiculous individually, but together it sounded.

1445
02:00:29.039 --> 02:00:29.159
Well.

1446
02:00:29.159 --> 02:00:31.680
It's still sounded ridiculous if it was me singing, but

1447
02:00:31.960 --> 02:00:37.560
it sounded good with them doing it. Paul McCartney Pipes

1448
02:00:37.600 --> 02:00:44.479
a Piece, nineteen eighty four. See that doesn't make sense

1449
02:00:44.520 --> 02:00:50.039
to me, right. All I can imagine is pipes are Piece.

1450
02:00:52.199 --> 02:00:54.439
It was released at Christmas because it was a Christmas song.

1451
02:00:55.439 --> 02:00:59.319
It was based on the football match between the Germans

1452
02:00:59.319 --> 02:01:02.000
and the English. I think it was the Germans in

1453
02:01:02.079 --> 02:01:06.840
English during the First World War and Christmas Day they

1454
02:01:06.880 --> 02:01:09.960
kind of had a truce and played football and showed

1455
02:01:09.960 --> 02:01:13.039
each other pictures of their families. I don't know how

1456
02:01:13.479 --> 02:01:17.239
realistic that was. But and then they went back to

1457
02:01:17.279 --> 02:01:21.600
their trenches and I think someone accidentally had someone else's

1458
02:01:21.680 --> 02:01:26.720
picture there of their wife for war. I don't know

1459
02:01:26.720 --> 02:01:30.520
if that's true. I added that it was a great

1460
02:01:30.600 --> 02:01:33.960
I really liked that song. But it didn't get to

1461
02:01:34.039 --> 02:01:38.239
number one till the fourteenth of January eighty four, so

1462
02:01:38.279 --> 02:01:43.319
I'm guessing. Yeah, I'm guessing it was like number two

1463
02:01:43.399 --> 02:01:48.920
or something. A Christmas Frankie Goes to Hollywood nineteen eighty four.

1464
02:01:49.439 --> 02:01:53.720
Now my memory of this is, first of all, it

1465
02:01:53.760 --> 02:02:04.560
was went very very controversial, very controversial in my childhood.

1466
02:02:05.439 --> 02:02:10.399
I would say, probably the most controversial song during that

1467
02:02:10.479 --> 02:02:16.119
period that I could remember. Yeah, I would say that.

1468
02:02:16.680 --> 02:02:19.199
So it was January nineteen eighty four, so I was thirteen,

1469
02:02:21.439 --> 02:02:25.319
and what I remember there was one particular my stepmom

1470
02:02:25.439 --> 02:02:31.560
was singing it because Radio one banned it. And as

1471
02:02:31.560 --> 02:02:35.319
soon as Radio on banned it, it got to number one.

1472
02:02:36.239 --> 02:02:39.680
It was number one for five weeks. They wouldn't even

1473
02:02:40.239 --> 02:02:42.399
they wouldn't play the video on top of the pops.

1474
02:02:42.760 --> 02:02:45.039
In fact, I don't think they'd even play the song

1475
02:02:45.199 --> 02:02:51.640
on top of the Pops because that was like BBC

1476
02:02:52.199 --> 02:02:55.439
Radio one with BBC, so I'm not quite sure how

1477
02:02:55.439 --> 02:03:00.000
they worked around it. But I did see the video,

1478
02:03:00.159 --> 02:03:06.840
so I saw it somewhere. I just remember seeing my

1479
02:03:08.840 --> 02:03:14.439
stepm I'm dancing around, singing or holding a spatula or

1480
02:03:14.439 --> 02:03:16.680
something like just cooking in the kitchen, and she was

1481
02:03:16.760 --> 02:03:19.800
like singing, relaxed, don't do red on it. She was

1482
02:03:19.840 --> 02:03:22.760
like dancing with a song. Because it was a huge hit.

1483
02:03:22.920 --> 02:03:25.800
I mean, it was the biggest song possibly in the

1484
02:03:25.800 --> 02:03:29.960
Western world at the time. I'm not sure how popular

1485
02:03:30.000 --> 02:03:33.359
it was in the Middle East. I don't know, but

1486
02:03:33.600 --> 02:03:36.800
it definitely Russia, but I don't know if it really

1487
02:03:37.159 --> 02:03:41.920
hit the charts in Russia or in Korea, I don't know,

1488
02:03:42.279 --> 02:03:45.600
or China, I'm not sure, but in ending like the

1489
02:03:46.039 --> 02:03:50.680
Western sphere, it was a very big song.

1490
02:03:51.680 --> 02:03:58.439
And there is one bit where she was singing and

1491
02:03:58.479 --> 02:04:03.720
she was dancing and she just stopped, just as they said, relaxed,

1492
02:04:03.720 --> 02:04:04.359
don't do it.

1493
02:04:04.439 --> 02:04:08.159
When you're relax don't do it, and then like when

1494
02:04:08.319 --> 02:04:10.960
you are want to come, and she just stopped and

1495
02:04:11.159 --> 02:04:16.800
stood there as a statue, and I was thinking, I wonder,

1496
02:04:16.880 --> 02:04:20.600
do you know what the song's about? Mummy, dear is

1497
02:04:20.760 --> 02:04:24.600
do you do you know? Because I knew, I kind

1498
02:04:24.600 --> 02:04:30.960
of knew someone told me a friend a ready in

1499
02:04:31.000 --> 02:04:32.960
a magazine. No, I didn't. I didn't know what it

1500
02:04:33.039 --> 02:04:38.159
was about. I knew what the I did. I kind

1501
02:04:38.159 --> 02:04:44.279
of did. I didn't completely, to be honest, I was

1502
02:04:44.359 --> 02:04:49.000
thirteen years old. I kind of knew, but I just

1503
02:04:49.039 --> 02:04:51.560
remember thinking, I don't think she knows what it is

1504
02:04:51.640 --> 02:04:58.159
the songs about ninety nine red balloons Nina ninety nine?

1505
02:04:58.399 --> 02:05:01.159
Did she do that different way? Which did in German?

1506
02:05:01.159 --> 02:05:05.439
Didn't she? Or part of the song in German annoying

1507
02:05:05.520 --> 02:05:13.119
and hate or bardi chin compang or porkin honey her napoon.

1508
02:05:14.239 --> 02:05:17.640
I don't know. Maybe it was a different language. That

1509
02:05:17.760 --> 02:05:22.520
was the number one for three weeks Lna Richie Hello, Yeah,

1510
02:05:22.800 --> 02:05:28.800
that was do you know what? There was two songs

1511
02:05:30.880 --> 02:05:35.520
and both of them were from nineteen eighty four, which men,

1512
02:05:36.479 --> 02:05:39.720
I don't want to say all men, but some males

1513
02:05:40.840 --> 02:05:51.119
used as in a way to be romantic to the ladies,

1514
02:05:53.039 --> 02:05:57.520
some ladies, some men and some ladies. And one of

1515
02:05:57.520 --> 02:06:04.760
those was on a telephone Hello is me, like you know,

1516
02:06:04.800 --> 02:06:09.279
with someone answered the phone or they call Hello. And

1517
02:06:09.439 --> 02:06:14.279
another one was Stevie Wonder. I just called it say

1518
02:06:14.319 --> 02:06:18.600
I love you. You know, it's like I can't say cheesy.

1519
02:06:18.840 --> 02:06:20.439
But I think I don't know if it worked. I

1520
02:06:20.479 --> 02:06:23.560
don't know. I tried it in later years but didn't work.

1521
02:06:24.079 --> 02:06:27.640
I tried it once at school at the time, like

1522
02:06:27.640 --> 02:06:32.600
in nineteen eighty four, but just got me detention. Apparently,

1523
02:06:33.319 --> 02:06:38.800
shouldn't be talking to the teacher like that inappropriate Lana Chie, Hello,

1524
02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:45.359
durand around the reflex where whem wake me up before

1525
02:06:45.399 --> 02:06:50.000
you go go. So I was definitely working at this

1526
02:06:50.039 --> 02:07:03.680
point in the the bakery, in the restaurant play Yeah,

1527
02:07:03.880 --> 02:07:06.680
I was definitely So. I was hearing these songs regularly,

1528
02:07:07.279 --> 02:07:15.319
including Relax because they had Radio Caroline on, which was

1529
02:07:15.640 --> 02:07:19.079
a band station but anyone could get it. It just

1530
02:07:19.079 --> 02:07:21.119
had to just tune into it. And it was this

1531
02:07:21.359 --> 02:07:25.680
ship docked off of the like in the waters, I think,

1532
02:07:25.800 --> 02:07:29.880
just out of British waters. So it wasn't upbreaking any rules,

1533
02:07:30.880 --> 02:07:35.760
but it was not didn't have a license, and they'd

1534
02:07:35.760 --> 02:07:39.840
play all the top hits and then I think they

1535
02:07:39.920 --> 02:07:46.640
became legal and whatever turned into another I don't really

1536
02:07:46.680 --> 02:07:50.279
know the history. Actually, I've been making it up and

1537
02:07:50.319 --> 02:07:52.000
as you know, I don't like to make things up.

1538
02:07:52.000 --> 02:07:57.800
I'd like to be very factual. See this is my

1539
02:07:57.960 --> 02:08:02.880
period nineteen eighty four, A game, Pipes of Peace, Relax, Hello,

1540
02:08:03.840 --> 02:08:09.640
the Reflex flexxxxx, Tranduran. So I was definitely working in

1541
02:08:09.680 --> 02:08:17.039
the bakehouse at this time Saturday and Sunday mornings early

1542
02:08:18.319 --> 02:08:19.880
and also during the summer as well. I was in

1543
02:08:19.920 --> 02:08:22.159
nineteen eighty four. During the summer, I was doing it,

1544
02:08:24.199 --> 02:08:36.000
and I was also, uh, but bum bum bum bum bum.

1545
02:08:36.119 --> 02:08:42.439
Al Right, I can give you an idea, right, So

1546
02:08:42.920 --> 02:08:46.039
I was doing karate. But I remember one particular there's

1547
02:08:46.079 --> 02:08:51.000
this the only song I remember whilst I was doing

1548
02:08:51.079 --> 02:08:59.760
karate and I'm going down here is nineteen and eighth

1549
02:09:00.960 --> 02:09:04.600
There must be an Angel Playing with My Heart And

1550
02:09:04.640 --> 02:09:07.960
that was number one twenty seventh of July nineteen eighty five.

1551
02:09:09.800 --> 02:09:12.079
I don't know how on earth that didn't stay at

1552
02:09:12.119 --> 02:09:20.199
number one forever, because it was, in my opinion, one

1553
02:09:20.199 --> 02:09:27.079
of the greatest vocals ever, I mean just ever. It

1554
02:09:27.119 --> 02:09:38.119
was phenomenal. Ana Lynux just had one heck of a voice.

1555
02:09:38.680 --> 02:09:43.119
But I remember, I don't know why, I just remember

1556
02:09:43.199 --> 02:09:49.880
hearing that song during that period of doing karate, and

1557
02:09:52.279 --> 02:09:54.520
that period I wouldn't have seen Top of the Pops

1558
02:09:55.039 --> 02:10:01.319
because I was out every Tuesday and Thursday evening apart

1559
02:10:01.359 --> 02:10:05.039
from during the summer actually the summer period, so like

1560
02:10:05.239 --> 02:10:12.840
during July. Yeah, so July, I wouldn't have been doing it,

1561
02:10:15.399 --> 02:10:17.159
but I might have been meeting up with them because

1562
02:10:17.159 --> 02:10:20.479
we used to meet up at the park because the school.

1563
02:10:20.520 --> 02:10:26.920
Once the school was closed, couldn't use the the what's it,

1564
02:10:27.000 --> 02:10:31.239
you know this the hall the sports hall for however

1565
02:10:31.239 --> 02:10:42.119
many weeks, but I still trained, So I'm going to

1566
02:10:42.199 --> 02:10:46.359
go back. Frankiekosa, Hollywood, Two Tribes again. I loved that

1567
02:10:49.000 --> 02:10:57.079
so definitely. Nineteen eighty four, I was working in the bakery.

1568
02:10:58.159 --> 02:11:02.199
George Michael Careless whisper Stevie Wonder. I just called to

1569
02:11:02.279 --> 02:11:06.439
say I love you. September nineteen eighty four, the eighth

1570
02:11:06.479 --> 02:11:11.159
of September. That was number one for six weeks. Two

1571
02:11:11.279 --> 02:11:13.600
Tribes was number one for nine weeks.

1572
02:11:14.760 --> 02:11:15.279
Wow.

1573
02:11:17.119 --> 02:11:23.840
So that's got to be one of Stevie Wonder's biggest

1574
02:11:23.880 --> 02:11:28.720
all time hits as far as being number one. Did

1575
02:11:28.720 --> 02:11:30.560
he get to number one for longer than that with

1576
02:11:30.720 --> 02:11:39.079
any other songs? I don't know that. Perhaps is the

1577
02:11:39.239 --> 02:11:42.439
Tuesday Trivia I don't know. Maybe this is trivia. Is

1578
02:11:42.479 --> 02:11:45.399
this trivia? I don't know. This is kind of trivia

1579
02:11:45.560 --> 02:11:48.520
and boredom at the same time, isn't it. But I'm

1580
02:11:48.560 --> 02:11:52.159
just talking about my favorite songs. So the Power of

1581
02:11:52.199 --> 02:11:56.000
Love that is my favorite, frankiek is the Hollywood song

1582
02:11:56.199 --> 02:12:02.279
out of all of them. The Power of Love. No,

1583
02:12:02.359 --> 02:12:08.199
it isn't. Wait a minute, there was another one. Oh no,

1584
02:12:08.720 --> 02:12:14.359
the power of Love it comes from above here in

1585
02:12:14.479 --> 02:12:23.199
my home. So relax. Two tribes The Power of Love

1586
02:12:23.760 --> 02:12:28.239
all got to number one in nineteen eighty four? Didn't

1587
02:12:28.239 --> 02:12:35.520
they do another song that I liked? They did another

1588
02:12:35.560 --> 02:12:43.000
song that I liked the where is that? I've got

1589
02:12:43.000 --> 02:12:48.960
to go back discography. Oh, Welcome to the Pleasure That

1590
02:12:49.600 --> 02:12:55.640
Welcome to the pollutional So why is that not listed?

1591
02:12:55.680 --> 02:13:03.800
Then that's why I don't understand. It's not listed. Frankie

1592
02:13:03.880 --> 02:13:10.039
goes to Hollywood Welcome to the Pleasure home. Nope, it's

1593
02:13:10.079 --> 02:13:13.159
not It's not listed in nineteen eighty four. So this

1594
02:13:13.359 --> 02:13:19.119
isn't all correct, I would argue. So unless it was

1595
02:13:19.279 --> 02:13:24.239
the B side, perhaps I should have known better. Jim Diamond,

1596
02:13:25.039 --> 02:13:28.359
is that was I should have known better? Do Do

1597
02:13:28.359 --> 02:13:31.399
Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do, which is

1598
02:13:31.439 --> 02:13:35.479
a wonderful song, and then do they know it's Christmas

1599
02:13:36.159 --> 02:13:40.640
December nineteen eighty four, so it's a Christmas number one.

1600
02:13:41.239 --> 02:13:46.399
Five weeks it was not a number one, So yeah,

1601
02:13:46.399 --> 02:13:48.880
I definitely I love that song as well. But I

1602
02:13:48.920 --> 02:14:04.119
love the American one as well, the Christmas for the

1603
02:14:04.279 --> 02:14:06.760
American version, I just can't remember what it's called now,

1604
02:14:07.199 --> 02:14:09.680
but I like that as well. I thought they were

1605
02:14:09.720 --> 02:14:13.840
both great, and both for the same reason, wasn't it.

1606
02:14:13.840 --> 02:14:17.600
It's just the American one had Michael Jackson and Stevie

1607
02:14:17.600 --> 02:14:22.720
Wonder and the Boss and I I mean Molly, I

1608
02:14:22.760 --> 02:14:35.880
mean Bruce Pinstein and Tina Turner and Cindy Lauper. Did

1609
02:14:36.039 --> 02:14:40.279
Madonna do it as well? Because you know what I

1610
02:14:40.359 --> 02:14:43.159
see the thing. It might be a weird thing to say,

1611
02:14:43.199 --> 02:14:49.079
but Cindy Lauper is like Madonna kind of I'm gonna

1612
02:14:49.079 --> 02:14:53.159
say Madonna copied Cyndi Lauper, but Cindy Lauper was looked

1613
02:14:53.319 --> 02:14:57.119
kind of almost like the original Madonna. But then you

1614
02:14:57.199 --> 02:15:07.720
could say that Blondie, Debbie Allen, Debbie Allen, Debbie, you

1615
02:15:07.760 --> 02:15:14.560
know Blondie, that maybe she was the original Madonna. And

1616
02:15:14.600 --> 02:15:19.239
I'm not saying it's just because they're blonde. But they're

1617
02:15:19.279 --> 02:15:22.640
not all blonde, are they? I mean Debbie Harry, not Alan.

1618
02:15:22.760 --> 02:15:26.479
Debbie Harry was blonde, but she probably wasn't blonde anyway,

1619
02:15:27.279 --> 02:15:32.479
Sydney Lord, but had all colors of hair. Time are

1620
02:15:32.760 --> 02:15:37.840
the Time? I love that song so much, And then

1621
02:15:37.920 --> 02:15:43.079
Madonna OpEd, the dog's barking again. Hasn't barked hard? Yeah,

1622
02:15:43.159 --> 02:15:47.159
hardly anything today, I'd tell it's weird. I looked out

1623
02:15:47.159 --> 02:15:48.800
the window the other day because the dog was just

1624
02:15:48.840 --> 02:15:52.680
barking and barking and barking, and I'm thinking, why doesn't

1625
02:15:52.920 --> 02:15:55.800
the owner told them to try and calm the dog down,

1626
02:15:56.520 --> 02:15:59.000
because I do that when I Finn he starts barking,

1627
02:16:00.079 --> 02:16:02.399
try and calm him down so that the neighbors are

1628
02:16:02.399 --> 02:16:04.880
not disturbed. I looked out the window and she's just

1629
02:16:04.920 --> 02:16:09.640
standing there or he whoever it is, just standing there

1630
02:16:10.239 --> 02:16:13.880
watching a dog barking like really loud for a good

1631
02:16:13.960 --> 02:16:17.319
ten to fifteen minutes. I wasn't watching for ten to

1632
02:16:17.359 --> 02:16:20.960
fifteen minutes, but it'd been barking for that amount of

1633
02:16:21.039 --> 02:16:24.319
time before I looked, and I was just checking to

1634
02:16:24.319 --> 02:16:34.479
make sure everything was okay. I'm thinking Wow, it's I

1635
02:16:34.520 --> 02:16:41.559
don't think even if I'd got like ten different doctorates

1636
02:16:41.639 --> 02:16:46.799
in some kind of psychological different psychological subjects, I still

1637
02:16:46.799 --> 02:16:52.680
wouldn't understand humans. Foreigner, I want to know what love is.

1638
02:16:53.200 --> 02:16:58.920
I want you to show me a lame page. I

1639
02:16:59.040 --> 02:17:04.360
know him so well, dead or alive. You've spinned me

1640
02:17:04.680 --> 02:17:09.840
right round, right round round, like a record. So Phil

1641
02:17:09.920 --> 02:17:14.040
Bailey and for Easy Lover? I love that song? What

1642
02:17:14.200 --> 02:17:19.200
happened to Phil Bailey? Because I would argue Phil Bailey

1643
02:17:19.280 --> 02:17:21.799
was the best vocals on that song. And I am

1644
02:17:21.799 --> 02:17:27.079
at Phil Collins fan, but Phil Bailey, them two together,

1645
02:17:27.159 --> 02:17:33.159
they should have done more. You may argue against this,

1646
02:17:33.319 --> 02:17:35.159
You might think, oh, it's a silly thing to say,

1647
02:17:36.159 --> 02:17:42.639
but I'll say anyway, hell like yeah, especially on my

1648
02:17:42.920 --> 02:17:48.200
car my things are silly thing to say. But I

1649
02:17:48.280 --> 02:17:51.360
kind of think that they should have done more together

1650
02:17:52.639 --> 02:17:55.680
as a kind of a little double act, you know.

1651
02:17:56.600 --> 02:17:58.360
I mean, Phil Collins had a lot and has played

1652
02:17:58.399 --> 02:18:01.559
Delian Let's face it if that greedy was used to

1653
02:18:01.600 --> 02:18:05.200
eat a lot. But now I had his band and

1654
02:18:05.239 --> 02:18:11.440
then he had his own solo career. But the harmonies

1655
02:18:11.520 --> 02:18:16.200
with him and Phil Bailey singing together was just beautiful,

1656
02:18:17.680 --> 02:18:20.600
and I would have liked to have seen them do

1657
02:18:20.719 --> 02:18:26.120
more together. That's just the smart personal opinion. And I

1658
02:18:26.159 --> 02:18:31.959
realized we're a five ninety five, two thousand and five,

1659
02:18:32.159 --> 02:18:38.920
twenty fifteen, twenty twenty five, forty years too late. But hey,

1660
02:18:38.959 --> 02:18:42.840
oh we are the world. So that was the American

1661
02:18:42.959 --> 02:18:48.479
version of our one, and we had a world we

1662
02:18:48.559 --> 02:18:55.719
are the children. They were both. I would argue. I

1663
02:18:55.719 --> 02:18:59.959
wouldn't argue, but I would say both equally great song,

1664
02:19:01.559 --> 02:19:05.399
just ruined a bit by the video. I just I

1665
02:19:05.399 --> 02:19:08.760
don't know both of them. I just don't like I

1666
02:19:08.840 --> 02:19:10.799
know that was the cause, that was the reason for

1667
02:19:10.879 --> 02:19:15.840
the music. I know that. I've always struggled with things

1668
02:19:15.920 --> 02:19:22.600
like these big charity events where they have comedy music,

1669
02:19:22.680 --> 02:19:26.319
but there's like really funny comedy sketch and then I'll

1670
02:19:26.360 --> 02:19:31.920
go to a really super serious subject and I can't.

1671
02:19:32.239 --> 02:19:35.799
I can't switch myself like that. That's why I have

1672
02:19:35.879 --> 02:19:41.000
to avoid some TV channels, because some of these like

1673
02:19:41.239 --> 02:19:44.280
daytime channels and only somebody on in the evening as well,

1674
02:19:44.559 --> 02:19:48.840
when they'll show old TV shows, old comedies which I

1675
02:19:48.920 --> 02:19:52.959
quite like watching sometimes like whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

1676
02:19:53.040 --> 02:19:57.559
And just shows from like decades ago that I just

1677
02:19:57.639 --> 02:20:01.600
quite like watching. But then in the effort, it's it's

1678
02:20:01.680 --> 02:20:07.719
like Donkey sanctuaries and eyelid surgery and all this, Like

1679
02:20:08.520 --> 02:20:12.040
I just like, nah, man, I just I'm trying to

1680
02:20:12.079 --> 02:20:16.120
just enjoy myself and just chill out. So yeah, I

1681
02:20:16.239 --> 02:20:24.600
kind of this. Yeah, I'm just a moaning and I

1682
02:20:24.639 --> 02:20:30.879
Phyllis Nelson moved closer, moved closer. And of course Paul

1683
02:20:31.000 --> 02:20:37.799
Hardcastle nineteen number one for five weeks. I mean that

1684
02:20:37.799 --> 02:20:44.559
that really that was one heck of a video, wasn't it.

1685
02:20:45.680 --> 02:20:49.000
If you don't remember, it was No.

1686
02:20:49.159 --> 02:21:00.959
Nineteen nineteen, No, nineteen, No, nineteen nineteen nine nineteen in

1687
02:21:01.319 --> 02:21:05.760
nineteen yeah, wow, the crowd.

1688
02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:08.159
You'll never walk alone. Then that's an old that's been

1689
02:21:08.200 --> 02:21:11.959
done so many times, and there my favorite version is

1690
02:21:11.959 --> 02:21:19.879
Elvis Presley or Cruise Storm moved your head Bye, Sister

1691
02:21:19.920 --> 02:21:28.440
selects Frankie, I love that song Frankie and dressed as cheerleaders,

1692
02:21:28.479 --> 02:21:31.440
which we don't well, we didn't have in this country,

1693
02:21:32.200 --> 02:21:36.079
so cheerleaders were something that was foreign to this country

1694
02:21:36.959 --> 02:21:44.159
in nineteen eighty five, and they were doing I don't know,

1695
02:21:44.159 --> 02:21:46.479
it's like a triangle. We're all standing on each other's

1696
02:21:46.520 --> 02:21:50.520
heads and stuff, and it was brilliant. Loved it and

1697
02:21:50.959 --> 02:21:53.879
really big fan of song number one for four weeks.

1698
02:21:56.159 --> 02:22:00.360
Then you have mixed They must be an Angel seventh

1699
02:22:00.399 --> 02:22:14.639
of July nineteen eighty four. Umm, but bum but bum

1700
02:22:14.680 --> 02:22:18.719
bum bum boom. That's one of my all time favorite songs.

1701
02:22:19.440 --> 02:22:23.520
It just is, it will always be. But sometimes I forget.

1702
02:22:24.680 --> 02:22:32.000
I forget that it is because although individually I like

1703
02:22:32.040 --> 02:22:35.360
a lot of the U of mixed songs, I never

1704
02:22:35.479 --> 02:22:42.600
ever once listened to a EURO of mixed album. Madonna

1705
02:22:43.079 --> 02:22:47.680
Into the Groove nineteen eighty five. You Be That was

1706
02:22:47.760 --> 02:22:52.840
kind of Madonna was starting just making a Was that

1707
02:22:52.959 --> 02:23:00.200
her first song in number one? Yeah? I think it

1708
02:23:00.239 --> 02:23:02.360
was a number first number one song in the UK

1709
02:23:02.920 --> 02:23:07.600
four weeks and then ub forty Chrissy Hyde I've Got

1710
02:23:07.600 --> 02:23:12.920
You Babe. Yeah. Like that David Bowie and Mick Jagger

1711
02:23:13.159 --> 02:23:19.360
dancing in the street four weeks at number one. I

1712
02:23:19.399 --> 02:23:25.200
think that it was like a comedy video, wasn't it.

1713
02:23:25.799 --> 02:23:36.440
And seeing David Bowie and Mick Jagger literally dancing it

1714
02:23:36.559 --> 02:23:39.040
was so funny that people just kept they wanted to

1715
02:23:39.079 --> 02:23:46.120
keep watching it on TV. The video Midjual if I was,

1716
02:23:46.559 --> 02:23:50.639
that was a good song as well. If I was,

1717
02:23:53.319 --> 02:24:04.360
that was number one. Jennifer rushed the Power of Love. Wow, huge, huge,

1718
02:24:04.479 --> 02:24:12.760
huge hit, A great ballad Wow wow yeah amazing. Fergal

1719
02:24:12.840 --> 02:24:17.639
Sharky A good Heart, A good heart, Yeah like that,

1720
02:24:18.319 --> 02:24:23.120
I'm your man. Wham, Whitney Houston Save All My Love

1721
02:24:23.159 --> 02:24:27.559
for You. So that Whitney Houston's first number one hit

1722
02:24:29.120 --> 02:24:32.559
two weeks and it was a fourteenth of December eighty five,

1723
02:24:34.520 --> 02:24:42.600
so I was now fifteen. Shaking Stevens. Merry Christmas Everyone

1724
02:24:43.360 --> 02:25:00.399
was the twenty eighth of December, so technically technically Save

1725
02:25:00.479 --> 02:25:07.079
Normal Love for You was the Christmas number one, but

1726
02:25:07.239 --> 02:25:10.040
Shaking Stevens, I thought that Merry Christmas Everyone was the

1727
02:25:10.159 --> 02:25:13.399
number one song for Christmas, but it says twenty eight

1728
02:25:13.479 --> 02:25:20.200
for December, but then it might be wrong. It would

1729
02:25:20.200 --> 02:25:24.360
be the most played song though at that time, being

1730
02:25:24.520 --> 02:25:28.879
Christmas and all wet. So that was like nineteen eighty

1731
02:25:28.879 --> 02:25:33.920
five was the last full year of living in the

1732
02:25:33.959 --> 02:25:41.120
big House with my family, and then we just had

1733
02:25:41.120 --> 02:25:45.040
the first few months of ninet eighty six. So west

1734
02:25:45.120 --> 02:25:50.440
End Girls, Pet Shop Boys, Our Hardest Sun Always Shines

1735
02:25:50.479 --> 02:25:56.079
on TV Bill The Ocean were going it stuff that

1736
02:25:56.239 --> 02:26:00.319
does get going, Diana Ross still making song was a

1737
02:26:00.399 --> 02:26:05.680
chain reaction. Wasn't that an old song? It is now,

1738
02:26:05.719 --> 02:26:09.200
I guess, but it wasn't. Cliff Richard and he had

1739
02:26:09.239 --> 02:26:13.600
once living dog. So that was the young ones as

1740
02:26:13.600 --> 02:26:25.760
in Rick mal Adrian Edmondson, Yeah, and the other two

1741
02:26:26.799 --> 02:26:31.079
God forgets, don't forget their names now. I never did

1742
02:26:31.159 --> 02:26:36.600
learn the name of the little one, George Michael A

1743
02:26:36.639 --> 02:26:43.760
different corner Falco Rock Me Amadeus, Wow, Rock Me Amadias,

1744
02:26:44.479 --> 02:26:48.879
Medeias and Medias and Medeias, Amideias and Medias. I loved

1745
02:26:48.879 --> 02:26:56.479
that song We rock Me Amadias. Blimey, Papa Don't Preach.

1746
02:26:56.719 --> 02:26:59.799
I remember that twelfth of July nineteen eighty six. I

1747
02:26:59.920 --> 02:27:06.040
was living in that flat with my step mom's mom,

1748
02:27:06.159 --> 02:27:09.600
my step mom's step mom, my step mom, my step grandmother,

1749
02:27:11.200 --> 02:27:13.520
and I used to watch Papa Don't Preach the video

1750
02:27:15.559 --> 02:27:20.799
and I loved it. Loved that video. Although true Blue,

1751
02:27:22.239 --> 02:27:26.399
I love that video much more. I had it on tape,

1752
02:27:26.440 --> 02:27:29.319
I recorded it, and I wore the tape out. I

1753
02:27:29.360 --> 02:27:33.280
loved it that much. But as a song, Papa Don't

1754
02:27:33.319 --> 02:27:37.959
Preach is one of my favorite songs Madonna ever did

1755
02:27:39.559 --> 02:27:41.360
just that one off song and loved it, and I

1756
02:27:41.360 --> 02:27:46.000
loved the album True Blue, and that's one of my favorite.

1757
02:27:46.159 --> 02:27:49.639
My two favorite albums of Madonna, True Blue and Like

1758
02:27:49.680 --> 02:28:04.120
a Prayer. Wow, Christy Burgh Lady in Red. So my

1759
02:28:04.319 --> 02:28:10.559
sixteenth birthday, Okay, when I turned sixteen, the number one

1760
02:28:10.639 --> 02:28:13.639
song was Boris Gardner. I want to wake up with you,

1761
02:28:15.840 --> 02:28:20.959
and I think anyone's ever said that to me. I

1762
02:28:21.120 --> 02:28:25.760
want to wake up with you anyway. I'm going to

1763
02:28:25.760 --> 02:28:29.360
bring this to an end because noisy people are outside again,

1764
02:28:29.479 --> 02:28:32.799
so I would say thank you for listening. I remember

1765
02:28:32.840 --> 02:28:35.079
to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to

1766
02:28:35.079 --> 02:28:38.639
be happy and be gentle of yourself. He deserves to

1767
02:28:38.680 --> 02:28:46.360
feel safe. Lots of love. Bye,