Sept. 15, 2025

(no music) #1432 Let me bore you to sleep | Monday’s Boring Objects

(no music) #1432 Let me bore you to sleep | Monday’s Boring Objects
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(no 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. This this this, This is Monday's

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boring objects. My website for this podcast is let Me

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Boy to Sleep dot com. Although my Jasonnewland dot com

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is still in operation. It's just a watered down version

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with all the links to previous hypnosis stuff. And also,

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if you'd like to become part of Jason Newland's Facebook

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group talking about myself and the third person there, and

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my Facebook group is called Jason Newlands Group, and if

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you'd like to join in groovy So what I thought

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i'd do? What I thought I would do. I sound

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very young today for some reason. Don'ts sound my actual age.

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I was last night. I was going I think I

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was on YouTube going through some of the not my YouTube, no,

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I think it was Apple Music, and I was just

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going through some of the music that I some of

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the songs that I like, and I forget how many

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songs I actually really like from the past, And sometimes

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I do get asked that question. By the way, it's

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Vinnie in the background. If you're wondering all that noises,

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I do get asked what's my favorite song, my favorite album,

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and off the top of my head, I seem to

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come up with very similar question answers rather, But if

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I have the information in front of me, like all

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the different songs that have been released, I've got more

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of an opportunity to actually be reminded of some of

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the songs that I'd forgotten about. So what I'm going

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to do for this Monday's boring objects I'm going to

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I'm just going to talk about some of my favorite

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songs from the eighties. Now I'm probably gonna, Yeah, I

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want to go maybe my favorite it might just be

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my favorite songs from nineteen eighty because I don't know

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how far I can go, because I'm going to look

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through the whole year. It's not just number one hits

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that I would like. There's going to be songs that

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maybe we're in the top ten, top twenty, top thirty,

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even that I might have really liked. So I don't

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want to just find the number one hits from the UK,

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you know, in nineteen eighty, because might gave them. Give

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me maybe thirty songs, maybe twenty seven songs or whatever.

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Because sometimes songs are there for more than one week,

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aren't they? So yeah, so I thought, I just I'm

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not on the website called official charts dot com. Now

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I hope that this is only going to be in

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a UK. It won't matter too much because there's a

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crossover obviously. I mean, so many songs that I loved

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were from other countries. However, there's going to be I mean,

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I know, sometimes old I hear a song and it

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was a massive hit in America, absolutely huge hit. I

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saw one the other day. It was something on YouTube.

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I think there's this Morning. Actually it was really random

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and it was like something the Corner or something, and

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it was the Jackson five and apparently it was a

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big hit in America. Never heard the song before. So

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I'm just going to go through nineteen eighty so the

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top charts in this is the first twentieth of the

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first nineteen eighty Brass in Pockets, the Pretenders. Okay, so

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I'm not gonna I'm just gonna go through a lot

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of these songs. I'm not necessarily gonna remember. But then

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if I heard it, I probably think ooh, but I'm

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not going to hear it because I'm doing this. I

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can't play music, not chart music. It'd be nice if

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I could, because I'd like to do a kind of

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like a weekly radio show where I played music that

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I like, maybe even did I like the idea maybe

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doing too one show of the weekend, maybe on a

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sad day where I talk music I like, and then

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the Sunday show could be a request show. But it

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

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legally doing that without it costing money, which is a

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shame because Spotify used to allow that a few years back,

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and I did do a few episodes where I could

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just do a mixture of this and play a song.

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So I'd like to talk about the song, what it

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meant to me, you know, all that stuff, all that drivel,

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and then played this song. So it's kind of yeah.

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So I'm looking at this my Girl from Madness, My Girl,

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my Girl, so it's my girl. I liked that. I

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liked everything Madness did, so I don't remember that particular

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song off the top of my head. But then here

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number four, I'm in the mood for Dancing, one of

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my favorite songs that I never even think about. IM

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in the mood for all dancing. I actually dreamt about

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the Nolan sisters. Last night, I dated one of them

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in my dream. That is very strange if they random

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as well, so it's kind of I mean, number one

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was brass in Pocket the Pretenders. Number two was with

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You I'm Born Again Billy Preston and Sirita. I probably

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know both those songs, but I don't. I can't think

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what they are So nineteen eighty it's kind of still

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similar songs from nineteen seventies. It's kind of the crossover period,

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isn't it. The music's starting to change, and then at

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the end of the eighties a song that the music

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changed again into being dominated in the UK by Stockach

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and Waterman with Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan and Rick

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Asslee and Sanita and Yeah, some of the songs work catchy,

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but I just wasn't. It wasn't for me. Although I

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did like Rick Cassley his voice, I didn't really like

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his songs, the hits, but he did do when I

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Fall in Love like the ballad, and it's very good.

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I saw him sing it alive. Such a great singer.

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But you know, anyway, I'm in the mood for dancing.

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I remember hearing that why is my laptop vibrating? It

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is a laptop, isn't it. It's weird. I remember being

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at a wedding, so I guess it must have been

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nineteen eighty. So I wedd inside of been.

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Nine and see to me, Ironba was like tiny, but

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

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some reason, I thought it was a lot earlier than that.

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So I'm in the mood for dancing was being played

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and I was dancing, and then my stepmom had a

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headache or something and she went home and my dad

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took me and my three brothers. I guess she must

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have gone. I don't know who who the baby was

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with my little brother, but we all went out into

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the sea, which is I think that it was 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 better? 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 Rod Harris Show when I was on

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the Rock Harry Show. But they had won 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 another break in the War, blah blah, tears of

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

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I have a Dreamer Abba. Yep, it's quite weird because

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see this is a game. Kind of strange because he's

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nineteen eighty. I thought Abba was pretty much over and

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done with Bye Bye, like nineteen eighty, not overdug 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 Dreamers brilliant.

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They peaked at number two though, I have a dream Yeah,

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London calling the Clash, so this is where the seventies clashed.

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To see what I did there with the eighties, so

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people like the Clash. The Specials kind of carried on

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from the seventies to the eighties, so they almost kind

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of created the eighties in a sort of a new way.

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And London call in. I remember that one but Luke

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loved the clash London Calling and oh I forget what

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the other one another group, the Specials Too Much, too Young,

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too much, too young, do do do? Too much? Too

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young do do do? Something like that. They did a

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really good song called ghost Town. It's own ah lovingly

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in a ghost town. Oh the things are oh down,

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something like that, And I actually went to lunch with him,

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the bloke from the Specials. He's no longer with us, unfortunately,

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but I didn't know who he was. So there was

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this lady called Helen. She was a BBC She was

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I think she was self improved at this point, but

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she was a producer, film producer and TV producer, producer,

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and I don't know why, but we just built a

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friendship up. She'd started doing comedy. We met at a

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comedy gig and we just hit it off. She was

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probably in her thirties. I was what was I twenty

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And this is in the nineties when I matter. I

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was probably like twenty two maybe and twenty three, and

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she used to take me out. It wasn't a relationship,

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although I started to have I think I started to

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have a few feelings for her because I spent so

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much time with her, but it wasn't a relationship like romance.

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But she just liked 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 there was no penny, no penny counting,

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no or it's checked what I can afford on the menu.

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And it felt quite nice. And I did part of

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people's like I taken advantage of her, but I wasn't

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

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I couldn't care if I was eating in a top

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

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long as I was able to fill my tummy, that's really,

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you know, with something tasty, hopefully. But yeah, I think

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part of the reason it wasn't costing her money to

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go to a lot of these concerts because she'd get

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tickets sent to her because I wanted to give her

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to give reviews, and because she was a TV producer

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

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get a lot of comp tickets. Yeah, I went to one.

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I went to a concert I forget his name that

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he did. He had one really big hit American guy

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with a like all this kind of style hair. Oh

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what was his name? I forget his name, really really

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super good looking bloke and he it's a really good

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song as well, like the one that he is, one

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of those like really really good songs from the nineties

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that was like a huge hit, and off the back

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of that he was able to sell out concerts and

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stuff around the world. I guess, oh it was his name. Anyway,

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we went along, we got bored and left because I

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only knew one song. I wasn't a fan of his,

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but we just couldn't be botheredcause it was full of

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there's a lot of very young females screaming, and I

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was like, Okay, this isn't really It was a little bit,

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I don't know, just felt a bit strange being there,

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

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I knew, I could have got super excited, probably, But

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but there's one point when he gets on stage. Everyone's

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sitting in their chairs in their seats and it's a

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it's a I don't know, a theater. There's probably a

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couple of thousand people in there, and he's standing there

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and everyone's clapping and whatever, and he starts talking to everyone,

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and you know, he looks great, he sounds great. He

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hasn't I don't think he's actually started singing yet. And

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this surprised me. He said to the audience, he said,

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you can come up and is this totally true. I'm

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not making this up. He said, you can come up

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to the front if you want and scream. You can

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stand at the front and scream if you want. So

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all these girls just started running up and screaming, and

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I just thought it was quite weird that you almost

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need to instigate it yourself. But yeah, it was. I

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

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

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

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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 Rick Mail and age Edmonson in and there

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was a huge wait for it to start because he

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hadn't turned up or he was late getting there. I

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

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it was waiting for God, I 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 Mal because Rick Mal. If you

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don't know who Rick Mail is, or or Adrian Nippinson

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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 a TV they're 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, eighty 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 had their own double

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act where they was it called philfire Coming was called Bottom.

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That's it. They had their own TV show called Bottom,

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which they performed all around the country maybe around the world,

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I don't know. And that went on for ages longer

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than many many years. And Rick Mal was also in

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lots of different like sitcoms and stuff. And I think

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Adrian Edmondson did he did a bit more serious stuff

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later on because he was in Holby City, so he

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was really he's just really good actor they were both

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really good actors. But yeah, yeah, this is that. I

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remember one that Ricky or did he? There was, Oh,

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what's the TV show? It was about a minister called

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Bastard Alan Bastard and it's very funny. So rick Mail,

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I don't say Ricky didn't I rick Mal was the

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star of that and it was very good, very funny.

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That was in the like eighty six eight, not probably

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about eighty eight times eighty nine, A yeah, yeah nine anyway.

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But I also so going back to Helen, I went

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and she said I want to meet up with her.

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

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A North London movie named after the North London area

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from A Bloker did Three Weddings and 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 this flat which was biger than a house. It

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was like really quite a nice place. I couldn't find

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her for ages, honestly, it was like it wasn't on

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the ether's it was hidden. Anyway. I went to visit

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her one day and she I think it's Saturday, and

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she said, oh, I'm going for lunch, she would go

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for lunch. She said, oh, okay, So she went to

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

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I'm meeting I can't remember her name. I have to

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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 Paytrie 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, yeah, means nothing to me. And so he

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came along and they were just talking and had known

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each other seems forever, good friends. And he was really friendly,

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really nice bloke, and she was talking about what's he

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up to, and they were talking about music and some

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stuff that he was getting on with. And but at

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no point did he mention or did she mention to

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me that he was a big star. He'd been in

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I think three big bands in the UK. Terry Hall.

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

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kind of was is it Scar? He almost kind of

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I think created Scar, a sort of certain type of music,

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which then led to Madness and maybe Adam and Nance

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

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and had loads of people in the band. It wasn't

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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 have

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

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for a couple of weeks, but that's later on in

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the eighties. I'm not sure if I'm going to get

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past the first week of nineteen eighty one. That's not good,

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is it? How am I going to? How am I

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supposed to? Maybe this should be my new weekly recording songs.

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

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going to struggle to get through just one week. So

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

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

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five hundred and twenty years, five hundred 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 booring 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 anyway, So I'm talking, we're

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

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known how I was back then when the waiter came

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

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

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what are the specials? Today? Watched Today's specials? Because he

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was in a bank called the specials, and I looked stupid.

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It looked really dumb. I'd have found it hilarious as well.

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At the time. He probably wouldn't have done she might

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have done. I don't know she might have just been embarrassed,

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but I think that was part of the deal. I

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was quite embarrassing. I think she quite fine, found that

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quite amusing, and he was lovely, really nice bloke. Now

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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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if it's just like an hour or two, like, okay,

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

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comes to like working, or someone moving in and like

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

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in when I was in the pastor or me moving

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into a new home and having to sort of kind

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of get to know new people, or me starting a

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new job, Yeah, I've never never enjoyed that. But it's

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weird because eventually you just get to know people, don't you.

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It's standard. 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 when I started doing time 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 the other people were like

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ten years fifteen years old, twenty years old, twenty five.

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You know, there's a lot of much younger people than me.

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

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was the second fattest, the second fettest, but he was

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much more. 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 slim 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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Let's to be crawl, didn't it, Especially if I start

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

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and then everyone's laughing at me. It's like, no, the

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police are arresting me. He's like, oh, but your boob's

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back inside your brah 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 like, Wow,

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that's me having lost weight. Crazy, And I was standing

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there thinking I was slim, Wow, too much? Too young?

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Do do do? I forget that? I don't know anyway.

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So I'm looking at the spirits having flown the Beg's

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is it Love You? After Rose Royce, Spacer Jazz Carnival,

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seventeen Regents, Rappers, Delight, the sugar Hill Gang. I don't

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know any of these day trip to Bagner to bangor

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if I only want to be with you? I only

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want to be with you? Do Do Do Do? Do? Do? Do?

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Do Do Do Do? Was that done by quite a

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few different people? It peaked at number four the tourists

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I only want to be with you? Wasn't there a

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really famous person that sung that, like really famous, like

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in the sixties or the seventies or something. So I

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remember the song. I knowed the song song, but I

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don't know which version that was. Living by Numbers Escape

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Rupert Holmes the Peniicolada song. I probably know that, but

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I can't think of it working for the Yankee Dollar Skids.

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I'm beginning to think this is not a UK charts

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this is Oh, it is? 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 a 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 a gang.

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

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go to as it were? So when I was a DJ,

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Cooling the Gang songs were quite popular. They're quite a few,

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like dancing tracks, so Cooling the Gang. I liked them,

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but I don't remember Too Hot Buzz buzz A did

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lit Matchbox? No, it's number thirty. Don't know that one.

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I probably do, but I can't see off just from

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the title. There's no image or anything. My feet keep

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dancing cheek or chick thirty one? No Blue Peter by

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Mike Oldfield. Now I'm surprised at that. The reason I'm

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surprised is because I know who my Coldfield is. I

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know Blue Peter. It's the Blue Peter theme tune for

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one of the most famous children's TV shows in the

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UK history, Blue Peter, possibly the longest running. I don't

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know if it's still going now, and but it was

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like do do do 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, did Mike Coldfield?

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Did he do the the No? Did he Mike Coldfield?

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Did he? Did he do Tuebler bells? Am I thinking

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of someone else? Which makes him one of the most

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famous producers of music? Did he do did he? Did

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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 the charts, but clearly

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it was for nineteen twenty four weeks. It peaked at

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number nineteen no. It was in charts for eight weeks,

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peaked at number nineteen low. This week was number twenty four.

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Cowd of the country Kenny Rodgers. I think it was

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someone like Kenny Rodgers. I will recognize this song when

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I hear it, but I won't necessarily know the title

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of the song because really, unlike in I'm going to

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say America, because I don't know about other countries. I

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know in America a country in western music is it

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was huge and it still is huge in this country

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country and western country and is it country? No country

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where it's not country and west and is it country music? Sorry?

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Country music. There's always been a place for it here

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and there's been some huge stars that have had, you know,

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big hits from the country world music world over the

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decades in the UK, but it's not it's never been

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a dominant music here, so you're unlikely to see like

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a Top forty where you've got ten songs from the

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country country music. But some of the really big people

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like Dolly Parton, but there was more her popular songs

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that became pop. Pillar That sounds weird, isn't it. It's

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like nine to five and Joe Lene things like that.

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So I actually had an uncle who was in a

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country band and it was the biggest country band in

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the UK. He won awards like the most popular country

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band every year, and I was so impressed, and so

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I realized there was only four bands in the country.

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I'm joking. He was so good. I went to one

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of his gigs once and he was I think he

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was doing it for probably four decades, five decades, seriously,

466
00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:50.199
from just did it forever that he started off probably

467
00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:52.440
doing like sixties music, and then he kind of moved

468
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:57.159
into country in the seventies when the sixties country has

469
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.639
been around forever, isn't it not the with the trees?

470
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:05.239
I'm talking about country music. Got to Love Somebody sits

471
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:10.840
the sledge, got to Love Somebody, I'm in the mood

472
00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:15.599
forgot to Love Somebody, for Loving Somebody. I don't know

473
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:18.199
that one. Then it peaked at number thirty four, So

474
00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:24.719
that wasn't like a big strange little girl said Cafe Nope,

475
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:29.559
young Blood UFO, Sarah Fleetwood Mac don't know that one.

476
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:35.280
My Simple Heart, the Three Degrees thirty nine, Paradise Bird,

477
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:45.840
the Letter Wonderland, the Commodorees. Now I probably do know those. However,

478
00:38:54.360 --> 00:39:02.000
January nineteen eighty first to twentieth twentieth is the wrong.

479
00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:05.119
It is doing wrong. Why is it doing that for

480
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:12.440
six of the first, six of the first, first of

481
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:18.920
the first should we see first of the first twenty

482
00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:23.840
January nineteen eighty, right, that's the first one that you

483
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:37.400
can do charts, Okay, So twelfth is September? Why why

484
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:41.400
have you done that for? Why twelve September? I don't

485
00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:45.039
want twelve to September twenty twenty five is taking away

486
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:50.159
from me. It's say no, do what I told you,

487
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:54.880
or don't do anything at all. Stop. No, I've got

488
00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:57.559
to go all the way back to nineteen eighty. It's

489
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:02.719
going to take absolutely years. If that won't even let

490
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:05.480
me go on going back as far as twenty twenty one.

491
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:16.599
Why why are you doing this? Okay? So for some

492
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:20.360
reason it's blocked me out, and I don't understand why.

493
00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:25.360
I don't get Oh, let's go to Wikipedia, see if

494
00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:29.079
that will do it. Nineteen eighty best selling single of

495
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:38.800
the year, Madonna had six number ones juney eighties, so

496
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:46.239
Going to Eighties and as a Music Week juney eighties

497
00:40:46.239 --> 00:40:48.400
are a total of one hundred and ninety one singles

498
00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:53.440
which took the UK chart number one spot. Madonna was

499
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:57.039
the most successful single act of the decade, as six

500
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:00.679
of US singles reached the top spot. George Michael had

501
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:05.280
significant involvement with eight number one singles, with two number

502
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:10.079
one singles as solo artist, four as a member of

503
00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:15.320
Wham and one as a duet with Aretha Frank LNN

504
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:19.800
and one as a member of a charity supergroup band Aid.

505
00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:30.960
Six singles Oh Okay Frankie Goes to Hollywood received the

506
00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:36.079
longest number one, which was nine weeks in nineteen eighty

507
00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:42.519
four Two Tribes. The best selling single of the decade

508
00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:45.840
nineteen eighties was Do Their Notes Christmas by band Aid,

509
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:50.440
selling more than three point five million copies and passing

510
00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:55.960
Mula of King Tire by Wings to become the best

511
00:41:56.000 --> 00:42:04.440
selling single ever altogether. Now My Looking Ti No Needful

512
00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:13.960
the only song I've ever enjoyed listening to bagpipes. I'm

513
00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:21.320
not a fan of bad pipes, bad pipes, bagpipes. I

514
00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:28.440
know no, Sorry, I can't I don't know. I think

515
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:32.239
it's just just not really, my ears aren't suited for it.

516
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:38.639
I'm sure they're amazing. My ears don't can't adapt to bagpipes,

517
00:42:41.159 --> 00:42:46.000
and not everybody that plays bagpipes in public trying to

518
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:50.760
think what the correct words is not everyone that plays

519
00:42:51.400 --> 00:43:01.920
bagpipes in public should play bagpipes in public. Yeah, I

520
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:06.480
think it's quite a difficult instrument to learn. I think

521
00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.679
it must be, otherwise more people would be good at it.

522
00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:13.800
I'm sure, I'm sure they are, but just you know,

523
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:17.280
I'm moving on. Nineteen eighty saw the introduction of the

524
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:21.000
cassette single. Really, I thought that was around for ages.

525
00:43:22.719 --> 00:43:25.599
I used to buy the cassette single along the seven

526
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:30.280
inch and twelve inch format and nineteen eighty seven. In

527
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:34.119
nineteen eighty seven, major record labels developed a common format

528
00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:44.159
for the CD single. And I'll tell you what I

529
00:43:44.280 --> 00:43:47.519
didn't even I don't think. I started listening to CDs

530
00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:57.079
till the late nineties, so it took me ten years

531
00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:01.800
before I even accepted the CDs existed. Honestly, it's still

532
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:13.360
buying tapes. Best selling single of the year All Wait

533
00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:18.280
a Minute nineteen seventeen, Okay, nineteen eighty, so it's going

534
00:44:18.360 --> 00:44:20.400
to give me. This is for the whole year, So

535
00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:22.519
I'm not going to go by week now because it's

536
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:40.000
to take ages number. This is the number. So why

537
00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:46.199
has it got a number four? It's very weird. So

538
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:48.920
let's have a look. These were the ones weeks at

539
00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:51.920
number one. These were the number one songs Pink Floyd

540
00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:55.159
and Our Brick in the Wall, Pretenders, Brass in a Pocket,

541
00:44:56.719 --> 00:45:05.000
and Blondie Atomic. I loved Blondie, Blondie. See see when

542
00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:07.320
I get asked the question on a Q and A Friday,

543
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:14.239
I'll say, oh, I'll go to the music and I think, well, Madonna, Terrence,

544
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:17.039
Trent Derby, and I'll sort of think about, you know,

545
00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:24.639
Michael Jackson and the Beatles and Stevie Wonder and George

546
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:31.360
Michael and different various people that I really loved a lot.

547
00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:36.039
But there was a lot of songs, a lot of singers,

548
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:39.400
a lot of bands that I never bought an album

549
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:45.360
off ever, Blondie and I love so many songs that

550
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:51.519
Blondie did, particularly the Tide is High, because I remember

551
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:58.400
my I couldn't tell you the exact year. I could

552
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:00.960
because I could look it up. Couldn't I actually, let's

553
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.360
look it up. Why am I being so so coy?

554
00:46:05.480 --> 00:46:08.840
The Tide is High, which I would say is one

555
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:16.519
of their biggest hits, The Tide is High. Come on, Blondie,

556
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:25.960
Blondie and discography Blondie. Right. I want singles, not albums

557
00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:36.400
essential great, No, I want singles, live albums. These are

558
00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:43.559
just albums. I want singles. Where's the singles? Oh? Here

559
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:50.400
we go, right, So let's go down to the correct year.

560
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:54.400
So I'm just going down. They started in nineteen seventy

561
00:46:54.480 --> 00:47:00.440
six and they had a number one in Belgium, number

562
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:07.760
one in New Zealand with Denise Denise Denise UK was

563
00:47:07.840 --> 00:47:11.159
number two, So that was great song. I loved that.

564
00:47:11.159 --> 00:47:14.480
That was nineteen seventy eight. So I didn't realize that

565
00:47:16.679 --> 00:47:20.000
Hanging on the Teared the Phone that was seventy eight

566
00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:23.119
as well, and it reached number five in the UK.

567
00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:32.519
See that's weird, right, Why are none of those listed

568
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:39.440
in the US. So Denise Denise like didn't even register.

569
00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:44.559
Like they didn't release it in America, an American group.

570
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:48.440
I do believe Hanging on Telephone didn't release in America

571
00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:53.639
because it didn't chart. How please explain that to me?

572
00:47:53.960 --> 00:47:59.320
How great song. Two great songs got number five here,

573
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:07.199
so we charted the highest in the UK and Denise

574
00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:11.559
charted second highest in the UK, but it went to

575
00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:16.199
number one New Zealand and Belgium. And then in nineteen

576
00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:22.880
seventy nine Heart of Glass reached number one in the

577
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:28.159
UK but also in the US, so that must have

578
00:48:28.199 --> 00:48:33.599
been their big breakthrough hit. It reached number one in Australia,

579
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:44.679
in Canada, gerbil or Germany, probably not Germany and New Zealand.

580
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:51.280
So big hit reached got silver silver, I don't know

581
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:59.559
what saying silver. So Heart Glass. Then Sunday Girl, it

582
00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:02.519
didn't didn't even get in the charts in America. This

583
00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:07.960
is nineteen seventy nine. Wait a minute, Heart Glasses seventy nine.

584
00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:11.199
Sunday Girl got to number one in the UK again

585
00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:22.440
and also Ireland, but it didn't chart in America. And

586
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:26.320
then one way or another, one way or another, I'm

587
00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:29.239
going to get yeah, I'm going to get it one

588
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:32.880
way or another. See, don't anyone remember that it was

589
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:37.519
a good song. It did chart in America. Twenty four

590
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:41.599
got to got to number ninety eight in the UK,

591
00:49:43.480 --> 00:49:49.639
so maybe people in this country were not So we're

592
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:58.239
getting bored, which I understand because Blondie was amazing Dreaming.

593
00:49:58.679 --> 00:50:02.519
So in America thought this start to get more like hits,

594
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:05.480
but they were still only getting like twenty four, twenty seven,

595
00:50:06.039 --> 00:50:12.840
eighty four when Dreaming got to number two in the UK,

596
00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:20.159
twenty seven in America, Union City Blue thirteen in the

597
00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:24.840
UK didn't even register in America, and the hardest part,

598
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:28.719
the hardest part, got to eighty four. The thing is

599
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:31.360
number eighty four in an American chart when you got

600
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:37.480
three hundred plus thousand people compared to probably back then,

601
00:50:38.159 --> 00:50:43.199
I don't know what fifty fifty five thousand, three hundred million,

602
00:50:43.239 --> 00:50:47.239
probably three hundred and ten million or twenty million in America.

603
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:52.079
Here there was probably about fifty fifty five fifty six

604
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:56.800
million in nineteen eighty nineteen seventy nine, fifty million. It's

605
00:50:56.800 --> 00:51:00.440
a lot more now. And then at the end of

606
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:06.519
nineteen seventy nine, call me number one in America, number

607
00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:12.679
one in the UK. So it's weird. So nineteen seventy nine,

608
00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:21.119
so nineteen for the looks of this, so heart glass,

609
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:30.000
I'm confused. It's a heart of glass, So call me

610
00:51:29.960 --> 00:51:32.159
who was nineteen eighty So they got one number one

611
00:51:32.760 --> 00:51:37.119
in America Heart Glass in nineteen seventy nine. That was

612
00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:40.159
their first song that got to number one, and in

613
00:51:40.239 --> 00:51:44.280
nineteen eighty call Me got to number one and in

614
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:50.559
the UK as well, So technically we appreciated and realized

615
00:51:50.599 --> 00:51:58.800
how wonderful Madonna, how wonderful Blondie was kind of before

616
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:04.920
anyone else. It's only US, Belgium, maybe Ireland, Canada were

617
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:12.239
the only ones that really appreciated how brilliant they were.

618
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:17.960
But call Me that was there. I guess that rule you.

619
00:52:18.280 --> 00:52:20.079
I would have said that breakthrough because I said they

620
00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:25.639
had a number one in America and it went gold.

621
00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:28.519
So they made a lot of money from that one song,

622
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:34.280
so it's successful wise, but it's just weird that they

623
00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:36.960
didn't didn't get in the top ten with any of

624
00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:41.880
the other songs until call Me in nineteen eighty number one,

625
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:46.719
number one any America. Atomic only got to number thirty

626
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:50.800
nine in America. What is wrong with you? People got

627
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:54.960
to number one here we're the only country that appreciated

628
00:52:55.000 --> 00:53:02.480
Atomic thirty nine. You do realize when we did our

629
00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:06.599
charts in the UK, we didn't go below forty. It

630
00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:10.920
was also top forty, so any charts below that wasn't

631
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:17.920
even mentioned ever. They've got no publicity in the UK,

632
00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:27.199
that is in the United Kingdom of England, Commonwealth Britain. Atomic.

633
00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:29.960
So Atomic got to number one in the UK, but

634
00:53:31.960 --> 00:53:35.480
it also charted in the top twenty in every other country,

635
00:53:35.639 --> 00:53:39.920
well apart from one America and which was thirty nine

636
00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:53.719
and Canada. Right, So then you've got heroes that didn't

637
00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:56.679
chart at all that don't know what happened there, a

638
00:53:56.800 --> 00:54:03.239
non album single and then my favoritest song that they

639
00:54:03.280 --> 00:54:05.840
ever did. And this is what I was going to

640
00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:11.079
talk about. This was nineteen eighty, which is weird because

641
00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:17.519
I was, yeah, I suppose it makes sense. Nineteen eighty

642
00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:22.639
Does it say when? Does it say when? From looks

643
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:24.519
of it, it's at the end of nineteen eighty, so

644
00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:28.719
probably the winter nineteen eighty so I turned ten. My

645
00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:34.719
oldest brother was fourteen. He had a job at Tesco

646
00:54:35.119 --> 00:54:39.679
or some supermarket up the road around the corner part time,

647
00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:48.719
and we used to get He was more obsessed about

648
00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:51.760
the charts than I was. Now. I was happy to

649
00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:56.400
wait till Thursday to watch it on Top of the Pops,

650
00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:04.079
but the actual chart was released on a Tuesday, and

651
00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:09.800
the only way I could spoil. You know, I kind

652
00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:13.079
of had to listen to it on a Tuesday in

653
00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:17.360
order for him not to spoil it for me because

654
00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:21.199
he tell me who was number one otherwise, because there'd

655
00:55:21.199 --> 00:55:23.119
be two days till it was actually released on Top

656
00:55:23.119 --> 00:55:27.440
of the Pops on a Thursday night, So he used

657
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:29.159
to listen to it on a Tuesday. And what we

658
00:55:29.239 --> 00:55:32.599
did is, I remember one particular night he was working.

659
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:36.679
It was dark outside. I'm adding that for effect. I

660
00:55:36.679 --> 00:55:41.920
don't know who knows. I can't remember, but I remember

661
00:55:42.079 --> 00:55:46.039
taping the Top forty and I'm guessing it was on

662
00:55:46.159 --> 00:55:52.079
Radio one and they did the the Top forty charts

663
00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:59.679
and I recorded the whole thing. Now it needed probably

664
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:02.480
the needed to be turned over in order to record

665
00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:04.000
at the other side of the tape because of the

666
00:56:04.360 --> 00:56:07.440
length of the show, which was probably three hours long,

667
00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:16.559
maybe two hours long. And he kept saying, don't tell me,

668
00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:24.039
don't tell me who's Who's number one. I don't know why,

669
00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:26.880
but he was looking so he was really looking forward

670
00:56:26.920 --> 00:56:30.000
to it. I wanted Debbie Harry to be number one,

671
00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:33.880
and because I love the Tide is High, It's my

672
00:56:33.960 --> 00:56:39.079
favorite song at the time, and should I sing it

673
00:56:39.079 --> 00:56:45.480
to you. The tired is high, the tired is high,

674
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:50.280
the tide is high. The tide is ha ha hi,

675
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:55.199
And I remember it's weird. I got this memory. I

676
00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:59.719
remember we had this like stacked system. It was like

677
00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:03.800
all one with like two There was a record player

678
00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:07.119
at the top with a plastic cover that you pulled up,

679
00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:17.079
and there was a radio in built, and then further

680
00:57:17.559 --> 00:57:23.360
down there was two tape recorders side by side which

681
00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:29.360
you could tape. You could tape to tape, and then

682
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:34.880
at the bottom I think there was roomed for albums

683
00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:41.639
to be put. And it had this glass kind of

684
00:57:41.679 --> 00:57:47.199
like dark glass door with a magnet so you could

685
00:57:47.239 --> 00:57:51.719
just push it and it had just clickshut, you know, magnetized.

686
00:57:56.400 --> 00:57:58.960
I think the reason I remember I think I think

687
00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:02.079
my dad still got it. Actually, I think he still

688
00:58:02.119 --> 00:58:04.480
got it, or he did still have it when I

689
00:58:04.519 --> 00:58:08.800
was living with him in nineteen ninety for a little while,

690
00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:13.719
so I've probably seen it loads of times over the years,

691
00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:18.880
so that's why I remember it. Maybe, But I just

692
00:58:18.960 --> 00:58:27.519
remember sitting there on the floor making sure that I

693
00:58:27.599 --> 00:58:31.159
got all the songs and sud I've got this memory,

694
00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:34.719
and I might have made this bit up but he

695
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:39.559
was phoning, kept phoning up from work. He only lived

696
00:58:39.559 --> 00:58:43.039
around the corner, kept phoning up from work to say,

697
00:58:43.679 --> 00:58:47.079
did you remember? Do you remember to record it? Said yes,

698
00:58:48.320 --> 00:58:50.239
I think At one point he actually came home on

699
00:58:50.320 --> 00:58:59.000
his break because it was literally thirty seconds walk just

700
00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:02.000
came in to check that we're recording it. It's like, yes,

701
00:59:02.119 --> 00:59:04.199
we know, it's the most important thing in the world.

702
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:06.719
We're doing it because me and my brother were both

703
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:12.320
doing it together. My other brother like, what's so important

704
00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:17.000
about this? He said, you don't understand. They don't understand

705
00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:21.239
how important this is. I do wonder if we had

706
00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:26.000
different parents. So, yeah, Tide is High. That was one

707
00:59:26.039 --> 00:59:31.679
of my favorite songs. I don't know why I'm mentioning

708
00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:34.159
the Tiler's High. Why was I talking about the Tyler's

709
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:39.559
High Rapture? So that got to number one in America

710
00:59:39.599 --> 00:59:42.440
but got to number five in the UK. I don't

711
00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:48.000
even remember that one. So this is really weird unless

712
00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:53.800
it was a different chart in America. But clearly Blondie

713
00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:56.079
was much bigger in the UK than it was in

714
00:59:57.719 --> 01:00:02.199
not in amounts of people because we've got much smaller population,

715
01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:10.639
but as far as like the percentage or the amount. Well,

716
01:00:10.719 --> 01:00:14.559
from a chart perspective, Blondie, we're just reaching a much

717
01:00:14.599 --> 01:00:19.519
higher position. But I'm guessing, like, let's say, for example,

718
01:00:20.159 --> 01:00:25.239
the first number one Half Class in America, that one

719
01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:31.039
song probably sold more singles in America than all of

720
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:35.639
Blondie's songs did in the UK, all combined, just that

721
01:00:35.760 --> 01:00:40.440
one song in America. So it's you know, you're going

722
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:47.840
to look at it different directions, I suppose. But anyway,

723
01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:49.519
Blondie was good. That's all I was trying to say.

724
01:00:49.559 --> 01:01:01.360
Is I like Blondie. Fern Kinney, the Jazz going Underground.

725
01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:09.480
I'm going underground. I like that song together we Are Beautiful.

726
01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:11.440
It got to number one. I don't know what that

727
01:01:11.559 --> 01:01:18.119
is though. The Detroit Spinners I'm working my way back

728
01:01:18.199 --> 01:01:21.679
to you, Babe. That was a good song like that.

729
01:01:21.840 --> 01:01:24.840
They got to number two. This is nineteen eighty. I'm

730
01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:27.719
still in nineteen eighty. I've gone from the first week

731
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:34.079
to the whole year. Deck Sees Midnight Runners Gino or

732
01:01:34.199 --> 01:01:39.559
Gino got to number two. Johnny Logan, what's another year?

733
01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:44.199
This is seventeenth of May nineteen eighty got to number two.

734
01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:52.599
Thirty first to May. The mash a theme from Smash.

735
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:56.559
Theme from Mash. I'm not going to read it out

736
01:01:56.559 --> 01:02:02.039
because it's a topic that's not really acceptable to say

737
01:02:02.039 --> 01:02:05.800
it online anymore. But if you watch Mesh, you know

738
01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:10.840
the theme tune. It's I didn't realize I thought Mesh

739
01:02:11.000 --> 01:02:17.599
was because I watched Mesh for the first time about

740
01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:26.519
nineteen eighty four when I got my first TV. Might

741
01:02:26.599 --> 01:02:28.559
be in eighty five, but I think it was eighty four.

742
01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:35.440
I got my first black and white TV, and I

743
01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:39.840
just got these memories. Such was it was because I

744
01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:41.960
was a bit of a goggle box person. I was

745
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:47.920
really I love television. Television was better than real life

746
01:02:48.440 --> 01:02:52.599
for me personally. It's how I felt and I enjoyed it.

747
01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:58.440
It was escapism and it was more fun than reality.

748
01:02:59.239 --> 01:03:01.639
I understand as probably not very healthy, but it's just

749
01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:05.079
the way it was back then. That's how my life was,

750
01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:17.119
and I loved television, absolutely loved it. And I remember

751
01:03:17.239 --> 01:03:22.119
the first time ever outside of weekends like a I

752
01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:24.440
think on a Friday and Saturday night I could stay

753
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:27.760
up later, but the rest of the week I was

754
01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:33.039
in bed by nine or whatever. Even I don't know

755
01:03:33.039 --> 01:03:35.239
what the cutoff was, but probably nine o'clock when I

756
01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:38.280
was a teenager, but earlier on, when I was younger,

757
01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:43.199
maybe nine thirty, maybe even ten, I don't know. But

758
01:03:47.000 --> 01:03:52.320
once I got my TV, there was no bedtime. Bedtime

759
01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:57.679
didn't exist anymore. I'd pretend to go to bed. I mean,

760
01:03:57.719 --> 01:03:59.679
I'd be going up at like seven in the evening.

761
01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:09.239
I'm really tired now, I've made myself you all. I'd

762
01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:12.480
say bye, good night everybody, and I go ank and

763
01:04:12.519 --> 01:04:14.599
I want to kiss. My brother would say, you don't

764
01:04:14.639 --> 01:04:17.280
kissing me. I said, I'm just happy because it's got

765
01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:21.079
my TV. And he said, oh, fair enough, and don't

766
01:04:21.079 --> 01:04:25.199
do it again. I said, okay, sorry, and I go upstairs.

767
01:04:25.239 --> 01:04:27.800
I'd just skip up the I wouldn't skip up the stairs.

768
01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:30.519
I don't. Why would I say that whoever skips up

769
01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:35.719
the stairs skipping room gets tangled in it in the bannerstone,

770
01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:38.880
But yeah, anyway I walked up the stairs, I might

771
01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:42.880
have ran. I could run back then, but I might

772
01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:46.719
just walked at a steady pace. It's very difficult for

773
01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:49.079
me to remember, because I didn't write anything down in

774
01:04:49.159 --> 01:04:53.559
my diary, and even when I did journals over like

775
01:04:53.639 --> 01:04:58.360
twenty five year period, I never mentioned stairs. Just just

776
01:04:58.519 --> 01:05:02.360
never came up. I mean, the only stairs story really

777
01:05:02.480 --> 01:05:06.639
is probably when I fell down the stairs twice. It's

778
01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:08.920
down here. And then when I was a little kid

779
01:05:09.360 --> 01:05:11.400
fell down some stairs while I was holding a box

780
01:05:11.440 --> 01:05:18.480
full of little cars. I think, I think, so oh yeah,

781
01:05:18.480 --> 01:05:22.320
And also well, yeah, I used to pretend to fall

782
01:05:22.400 --> 01:05:28.199
down the stairs i could get days off school. But

783
01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:34.239
it didn't really work very well. So once I was

784
01:05:34.280 --> 01:05:39.440
doing it and I wanted my stepmom to find me

785
01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:41.960
at the bottom stairs, I'd be like, oh, I'd be

786
01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:46.920
holding my knee or something. It worked a little bit,

787
01:05:47.199 --> 01:05:49.880
but on one occasion she was actually in the bathroom,

788
01:05:50.079 --> 01:05:53.519
which is at the top of the stairs, and she

789
01:05:53.760 --> 01:05:55.639
came out as I was doing it, as I was

790
01:05:55.679 --> 01:05:58.880
like pretending to fall down, and she was watching me

791
01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:03.960
the whole time and couldn't really get away with it anymore.

792
01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:06.559
Hmm.

793
01:06:08.559 --> 01:06:11.840
I think she was just watching over the banister. I'm

794
01:06:11.840 --> 01:06:14.639
trying to get my head around. Yeah, yeah, because the

795
01:06:14.679 --> 01:06:20.320
bathroom that was just off of the top of the stairs. Yeah.

796
01:06:21.199 --> 01:06:25.800
So it was so lovely just watching TV. I've got

797
01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:29.000
to see things I've never seen before. Suddenly I could

798
01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:32.360
have watched Kojak if I wanted to, or I could

799
01:06:32.400 --> 01:06:38.719
watch or mash. Never heard of Mesh, I never heard

800
01:06:38.760 --> 01:06:44.599
of I was I was Cheers, never heard of Cheers

801
01:06:44.599 --> 01:06:48.199
before I was watching these programs I've never heard of before,

802
01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:52.239
and like wow, it was like a whole new world

803
01:06:52.280 --> 01:06:56.000
opened up to me. The past nine o'clock in the

804
01:06:56.039 --> 01:07:00.639
evening things were happening, and these programs, things that I

805
01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:03.800
wasn't allowed to watch, that the family didn't watch together.

806
01:07:06.519 --> 01:07:08.840
That's when I realized are a very different taste in

807
01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:13.480
programs to the family, you know, like my dad and whatever.

808
01:07:13.679 --> 01:07:19.320
They'd watch stuff on a Saturday night that I wouldn't watch.

809
01:07:20.079 --> 01:07:23.119
I'd watch it because it was part of the routine,

810
01:07:23.639 --> 01:07:28.920
the ritual whatever I want to say ritual, I don't

811
01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:36.239
mean anything weird, just just watching television. There's no sacrifices

812
01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:45.920
or anything, right, right, kids, Logan's Logan runs finished, the

813
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:52.119
A teams finished, Right, Let's go and get Let's go

814
01:07:52.119 --> 01:07:56.920
in the garden, get all the candles out and organized

815
01:07:56.960 --> 01:08:03.280
today's sacrifice. So Olivia Newton, John Zana do an electric

816
01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:09.719
light orchestra? Don McLean crying? Is that the one crying

817
01:08:10.599 --> 01:08:16.159
over you? Xana do? I like Xana do? Sana do?

818
01:08:17.279 --> 01:08:23.960
Sana do? I don't know why e Loo the Electric

819
01:08:24.079 --> 01:08:27.720
Light Orchestra did another version of Sandy Do with a

820
01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:31.680
different singer. Why why would you need to do that?

821
01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:38.560
I'm not I'm not judging. I'm just asking because Olivia

822
01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:45.960
Newton John I had such an amazing voice odyssey that

823
01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:49.359
got to number two in the charts. Odyssey, I don't know,

824
01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:53.439
use it up and wear it out that toilet paper,

825
01:08:53.520 --> 01:08:57.039
I don't know. Underpants, Abba, The Winner takes it all.

826
01:08:57.119 --> 01:09:01.039
I've got number two. August Night of All August nineteen eighty,

827
01:09:02.319 --> 01:09:09.399
The Winner Takes it all. It just shows you what

828
01:09:09.520 --> 01:09:12.920
I know. I really thought that Abba had kind of finished.

829
01:09:12.960 --> 01:09:20.359
In seventy nine, David Bowie Ashes to Ashes got to

830
01:09:20.439 --> 01:09:22.199
number two, So I would have seen it because I

831
01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:25.800
always watched Top of the Pops, so anything in the

832
01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:31.439
top forty I would have seen. Whether or not I

833
01:09:31.680 --> 01:09:34.880
liked it or not, I don't know. I would have

834
01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:40.760
seen it on TV. And Ashes to Ash, She's the

835
01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:45.359
jam start number one. I don't remember that one. Kelly

836
01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:49.479
Marie feels like I'm in love. I know that one

837
01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:54.319
they got to number two feels like I'm in love.

838
01:09:55.319 --> 01:10:01.399
I'm in love, feels like I'm in love. I know,

839
01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:03.119
it's getting old, but I'm going to keep doing it.

840
01:10:03.880 --> 01:10:09.359
The police don't stand so close to me. Wow, again,

841
01:10:09.479 --> 01:10:16.000
I loved that song. That was number four. I'm just

842
01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:21.840
going to tear around and see all right, carry on, Vinnie,

843
01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:24.479
but I can't make a movement without him stopping what

844
01:10:24.520 --> 01:10:28.039
he's doing. So the police don't stand so close to me.

845
01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:40.199
Twenty seven September nineteen eighty h Barbers streisand Woman in Love.

846
01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:47.439
I don't think I necessarily particularly appreciated that song at

847
01:10:47.479 --> 01:10:51.640
the time, but that was one hell of a song.

848
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:59.319
I'm just a warm mon in love. Okay, that didn't

849
01:10:59.319 --> 01:11:02.840
do it justice, but that is a great song. Number

850
01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:06.920
three had chied in the UK. I'm going to miss

851
01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:10.880
out Blondie because Oh the Tide is high? Was the

852
01:11:10.960 --> 01:11:16.239
fifteenth November nineteen eighty reached number two? Why is it

853
01:11:16.319 --> 01:11:19.079
saying that when earlier on it said it reached number one?

854
01:11:19.760 --> 01:11:28.199
Make up your mind, baby, it's lying to me. Um hmm.

855
01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:39.399
It's very strange, very strange indeed. But fifteenth November nineteen

856
01:11:39.479 --> 01:11:47.079
eighty so I was ten ten and two months and

857
01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:52.199
a half EBBA, so it would have been dark outside,

858
01:11:52.199 --> 01:11:56.439
wouldn't it at night? Especially like seven o'clock or six

859
01:11:56.680 --> 01:12:02.920
thirty whenever that came on be Radio one. ABBA's super

860
01:12:02.960 --> 01:12:06.359
Trooper got to number three. It's in November nineteen eighty,

861
01:12:06.399 --> 01:12:25.720
twenty ninth. Okay, this is weird. So John Lennon just

862
01:12:25.800 --> 01:12:29.279
like starting over twenty for December nineteen eighty got to

863
01:12:29.359 --> 01:12:32.560
number one. No, it's not weird. I just didn't realize

864
01:12:32.640 --> 01:12:37.199
that was the first one that they released. Yeah, so

865
01:12:37.279 --> 01:12:41.680
that's the twentieth of December. That was when John Lennon

866
01:12:41.960 --> 01:12:48.359
was unfortunately left us, so he they released that song

867
01:12:50.640 --> 01:12:53.359
and then I didn't remember that. I remember they I

868
01:12:53.439 --> 01:12:59.560
know the song, but for some reason I thought that

869
01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:09.279
they really least Ah, I'm surprised considering it was like

870
01:13:09.520 --> 01:13:19.039
near Christmas, why they didn't release the Merry Christmas one

871
01:13:20.720 --> 01:13:32.640
or maybe they put that on the other side. Wow,

872
01:13:32.760 --> 01:13:42.079
that's weird and it h um Yes, so John Imagine

873
01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:47.880
and Woman were both It was number four Imagine and

874
01:13:48.479 --> 01:13:57.800
Woman was number two. It was January and February. All right,

875
01:13:57.840 --> 01:14:03.920
they've missed out some weeks here. I think I made him.

876
01:14:05.159 --> 01:14:07.159
You know what I've just done. Do you know what

877
01:14:07.199 --> 01:14:10.199
I'm saying? What number it got to? I made a

878
01:14:10.199 --> 01:14:12.279
mistake that was how many numbers it was? How many

879
01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:20.880
weeks it was at number one? Whoops? Sorry? So just

880
01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:25.520
like starting Over was number one for one week? Shall

881
01:14:25.520 --> 01:14:28.319
I start over? Shall I start the whole recording again?

882
01:14:29.279 --> 01:14:32.800
So Imagine because I'm thinking, wait a minute, Imagine was

883
01:14:32.880 --> 01:14:37.600
number one, and so was Woman because I heard it

884
01:14:37.680 --> 01:14:41.600
a lot. That was January eighty one, tenth of January

885
01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:45.479
nineteen eighty one for four weeks, and then a Woman

886
01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:52.359
sent of February nineteen eighty one for two weeks. I

887
01:14:52.439 --> 01:15:03.319
love both those songs, Imagine probably more than Woman. Yeah,

888
01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:07.920
I loved Imagine, but it was I don't know when

889
01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:10.399
it was first released. It was in the seventies, wasn't it.

890
01:15:12.079 --> 01:15:20.479
When did he first release Imagine? Imagine song wow nineteen

891
01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:24.800
seventy one? And it was from his album called John

892
01:15:24.880 --> 01:15:34.359
Lennon No Yeah, John Lennon, eleventh of October nineteen seventy one,

893
01:15:36.199 --> 01:15:42.000
So I very much would have heard it at some

894
01:15:42.119 --> 01:15:46.960
point in the seventies. I just don't remember now. This

895
01:15:47.159 --> 01:15:52.680
next song I remember very well, and it was a

896
01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:58.960
Joe Dolcy music theater called shut Up Your Face. In fact,

897
01:15:59.079 --> 01:16:04.159
I can even right when I was in my early

898
01:16:04.199 --> 01:16:07.399
twenties this isn't this is not nineteen eighty one, so

899
01:16:07.840 --> 01:16:09.960
not when I was in my early twenties. I'd been

900
01:16:12.479 --> 01:16:30.279
ten back then, yeah, ten. So me and my friend Terry,

901
01:16:31.199 --> 01:16:33.920
this is an alert. Early nineties, we had this job

902
01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:41.079
where we're basically processing things, but labels on things or whatever,

903
01:16:43.039 --> 01:16:49.279
and there was a this is this bad that one

904
01:16:49.359 --> 01:16:53.439
of the supervisors used to come around and write down

905
01:16:53.479 --> 01:16:56.000
the weights of everything, like it's stand there for a

906
01:16:56.039 --> 01:16:58.760
couple of minutes while we did a box or a

907
01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:04.159
couple of boxes filled a color boxes up. And for

908
01:17:04.159 --> 01:17:07.359
some reason, when he talked, he just reminded both of

909
01:17:07.439 --> 01:17:11.640
us of Joe Dalcy when he talked in the music

910
01:17:13.600 --> 01:17:17.279
and if you'd never seen the video and never seen

911
01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:22.960
the song, shut up your face, then it might not

912
01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:25.279
mean anything to you. But he was he had that

913
01:17:25.399 --> 01:17:28.279
kind of He spoke a bit like that, and for

914
01:17:28.319 --> 01:17:30.239
some reason me and him found it funny. I was

915
01:17:30.279 --> 01:17:34.119
a young man. I don't I'm not excusing myself, but

916
01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:39.199
there you have it. So what we did, and I

917
01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:42.439
don't know why, I don't know how it started, either

918
01:17:42.680 --> 01:17:47.520
he or I would start it. So once this man,

919
01:17:47.840 --> 01:17:54.079
let's call him Dorian Dorius Dorius or whatever, and he

920
01:17:54.159 --> 01:17:57.920
was standing behind us. One of us would start the conversation,

921
01:18:01.079 --> 01:18:04.800
what's the matter you? That's my first one say. The

922
01:18:04.840 --> 01:18:11.199
other one would say, got no respect, but he's doing

923
01:18:11.279 --> 01:18:14.920
a sentence, so what's the matter you? And the other

924
01:18:14.920 --> 01:18:19.079
one say hm hmmm, you've got no respect, And then

925
01:18:19.119 --> 01:18:21.239
the other one would say what do you think you do?

926
01:18:22.399 --> 01:18:25.119
And then the other one, like me and Terry, I'd say,

927
01:18:27.239 --> 01:18:31.640
why do you look? What's the man? Why don't why

928
01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:35.640
you feel so bad? No is it? What's the mat you?

929
01:18:38.119 --> 01:18:41.399
Wait a second, I do it right a minute. What's

930
01:18:41.399 --> 01:18:45.479
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 --> 01:18:52.560
so bad? And then the one say it's a nicer place.

933
01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:56.960
I'll shut up your face. And that would We did

934
01:18:56.960 --> 01:19:00.359
it every single time, and he didn't notice. But we'd

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

936
01:19:02.399 --> 01:19:07.479
just like, what's the manner you? Hey? Got to no respect? Oh?

937
01:19:07.479 --> 01:19:09.840
What do you think you do? Hey? Why are you

938
01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:13.880
look as are bad? It's not so bad. It's the police.

939
01:19:13.960 --> 01:19:16.359
I shad up be of this. That was the song.

940
01:19:17.239 --> 01:19:21.359
And when there was a boy Hey. Then the years

941
01:19:21.359 --> 01:19:24.800
ago we probably did that as well, probably did more

942
01:19:24.800 --> 01:19:27.199
of the song, but I can't remember all of it now.

943
01:19:28.319 --> 01:19:31.000
It wasn't quite so fresh. It was fresh back then,

944
01:19:31.039 --> 01:19:34.000
you know, because you think this nineteen eighty one. It

945
01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:38.520
was only ten years earlier that it was in the

946
01:19:38.600 --> 01:19:40.840
charts at number one for three weeks, so I kind

947
01:19:40.880 --> 01:19:45.079
of it was more fresher now another fifty five years

948
01:19:45.079 --> 01:19:49.720
have gone past. But it made us giggle, and that's

949
01:19:49.760 --> 01:19:57.439
the main thing. Really. It's kind of borderline rude as well.

950
01:19:57.439 --> 01:20:02.000
But hey, I'm not responsible or what that version of

951
01:20:02.079 --> 01:20:05.680
me used to be like. I would never do that again.

952
01:20:06.199 --> 01:20:13.399
And I apologize since thearly Roxy Music Jealous Guy. Now,

953
01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:18.800
I didn't understand that. I mean, obviously, I'm gonna say obviously,

954
01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:21.760
I don't want to be rude to Roxy Music, but

955
01:20:22.319 --> 01:20:26.399
they clearly brought out that song off the back of

956
01:20:26.720 --> 01:20:34.079
John Lennon situation because it was literally, okay, the month

957
01:20:34.159 --> 01:20:43.600
after John Lennon Woman. Now, I'd never heard Jealous Guy before,

958
01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:48.239
and I didn't know it was a John Lennon song.

959
01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:58.640
Why Roxy Music couldn't just let them release John Lennon

960
01:20:58.880 --> 01:21:01.920
Jealous Guy, I don't know, but I'm kind of glad

961
01:21:01.960 --> 01:21:05.079
he didn't because, and I don't say this very often,

962
01:21:07.039 --> 01:21:11.960
I like Cake No, that wasn't it, well, I don't.

963
01:21:17.359 --> 01:21:26.159
Roxy Music's version of Jealous Guy was better than John

964
01:21:26.199 --> 01:21:29.359
Lennon's version. And John Lennon's version was great as well,

965
01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:34.960
but Roxy Music took it to a different level my opinion,

966
01:21:35.159 --> 01:21:40.159
obviously it's my opinion, but so good, it's one of

967
01:21:40.239 --> 01:21:46.239
it is one of my favorite songs. Actually, now we're

968
01:21:46.319 --> 01:21:52.399
moving into a territory that is very much. Things seemed

969
01:21:52.439 --> 01:21:56.960
to start to change. This is in the like nineteen

970
01:21:57.000 --> 01:22:02.159
eighty one period. It's weird. So you got through nineteen eighties.

971
01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:11.119
You've got all the Pink Floyd the Pretender's Specials, Kenny Rogers, Blondie,

972
01:22:11.640 --> 01:22:16.199
the jam. People from the seventies were still kind of

973
01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:20.640
you know, breaking through to the eighties, the Electric Light Talk, Eello,

974
01:22:21.319 --> 01:22:28.439
David Bowie, Abba, Barbara Streisson, John Lennon. I know there's

975
01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:30.239
a reason for John Lennon being in the charts, but

976
01:22:31.640 --> 01:22:35.520
you know, there's a lot of stuff from the eighties

977
01:22:36.319 --> 01:22:41.680
like that moved over from the seventies and then in

978
01:22:41.680 --> 01:22:46.920
the nineteen eighty one, the nineteen eighty one things started

979
01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:52.880
to change a bit, shaking Stevens, although admittedly being around

980
01:22:52.960 --> 01:23:04.600
for a long time, became huge and fizz. They had

981
01:23:04.960 --> 01:23:06.800
Making Your Mind Up, which is at number one for

982
01:23:06.880 --> 01:23:10.600
three weeks. They won the Eurovision Song Contest for England

983
01:23:13.600 --> 01:23:15.840
or UK. I'm not sure if it's Britain or England

984
01:23:15.920 --> 01:23:18.880
or the UK. I lose track. I only live here.

985
01:23:19.359 --> 01:23:25.840
I don't know who they represented, and that was a

986
01:23:25.960 --> 01:23:28.159
huge hit because there was a point where they pulled

987
01:23:28.159 --> 01:23:34.840
their miniskirts off, and I was ten at the time.

988
01:23:35.319 --> 01:23:38.279
I don't know why I'm really focusing on my age,

989
01:23:38.960 --> 01:23:43.479
but I didn't disapprove. That's what I'm saying. Shaking Stevens

990
01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:48.800
was my favorite singer. I feel a little a bit

991
01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:50.600
embarrassed because I thought I liked him when I was

992
01:23:50.600 --> 01:23:54.239
really little. But I was ten ten and a half

993
01:23:54.279 --> 01:23:58.319
at this point, so I wasn't really little, which doesn't

994
01:23:58.359 --> 01:24:06.199
make sense to me because I specifically remember walking around

995
01:24:06.840 --> 01:24:12.199
the field reading the lyrics to Stand and Deliver. But

996
01:24:12.279 --> 01:24:19.560
it was ninth of May nineteen eighty one. No, that's fine, actually,

997
01:24:20.520 --> 01:24:23.800
because I didn't Yeah, that would have made sense nineteen

998
01:24:23.840 --> 01:24:27.800
eighty one. I started high school in September nineteen eighty one,

999
01:24:28.279 --> 01:24:30.399
so I've got through it. I've got the memories correct

1000
01:24:31.920 --> 01:24:38.119
because I used to have the ACE magazine called Looking Magazine.

1001
01:24:38.720 --> 01:24:41.520
I get it every week, me and my brothers Will

1002
01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:46.760
had We had two comics each each week. I had

1003
01:24:46.880 --> 01:24:53.319
Looking and The Dandy. So Looking was kind of it

1004
01:24:53.359 --> 01:24:56.239
was more like a TV magazine. Really, it was very

1005
01:24:56.319 --> 01:25:00.000
much to do with TV and the charts at music.

1006
01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:04.239
That's what it was really about. It was kind of, yeah,

1007
01:25:04.399 --> 01:25:10.199
TV movies, charts. Yeah, it's brilliant. Yeah. I don't know

1008
01:25:10.239 --> 01:25:13.359
if it's still around, to be honest, but it was

1009
01:25:13.399 --> 01:25:19.399
really good. And The Dandy was for fun. I think

1010
01:25:19.640 --> 01:25:22.479
Looking was for knowledge. It was for keeping up to

1011
01:25:22.600 --> 01:25:28.119
date and knowing when the next new songs coming out,

1012
01:25:28.439 --> 01:25:31.960
when the next movie, the next TV show, you know,

1013
01:25:32.039 --> 01:25:34.239
like when the A Team's come back up on TV

1014
01:25:34.359 --> 01:25:38.000
again and things like that. And they'd be posters that

1015
01:25:38.079 --> 01:25:44.800
we could get and I think I started reading. I

1016
01:25:44.840 --> 01:25:47.399
was going to say ordering, but someone else got it

1017
01:25:47.399 --> 01:25:54.359
for me. But it was I'm pretty sure we were

1018
01:25:54.399 --> 01:25:59.359
living in the road where the house that at my

1019
01:25:59.439 --> 01:26:04.560
Nano grand had moved into, so that'd be nineteen seventy

1020
01:26:05.239 --> 01:26:14.319
eight and seventeen nine seventy eight sort of time. So

1021
01:26:14.399 --> 01:26:17.840
I started getting that then because I remember we were

1022
01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:21.039
sitting in front of the garden, which is a little

1023
01:26:21.039 --> 01:26:22.960
bit weird because we normally wouldn't do that, but it

1024
01:26:23.039 --> 01:26:26.680
must have been very hot, so we were sitting. Because

1025
01:26:26.880 --> 01:26:31.319
how it worked is you had the house. Do you

1026
01:26:31.359 --> 01:26:34.359
know the front of a house, and it's the front door.

1027
01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:36.680
So I'm going to get I'll give you a description

1028
01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:40.279
of the house where I lived. It was my favorite

1029
01:26:40.279 --> 01:26:44.000
house ever. And then my nanny grand had lived there

1030
01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:50.720
as well. For woman then lived there from nineteen seventy

1031
01:26:52.239 --> 01:27:03.680
nine to probably about two thousand and ten, maybe maybe

1032
01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:10.520
two thousand and nine, eight nine, seventy nine, eighty nine,

1033
01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:13.840
ninety nine two, so she was there thirty years at least.

1034
01:27:15.960 --> 01:27:20.960
And I loved that house, but it just wasn't big

1035
01:27:21.039 --> 01:27:24.239
enough for a new sprogue. So when my little brother

1036
01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:32.079
was born, we you know, it was okay for a

1037
01:27:32.079 --> 01:27:34.319
short while because he could stay in their bedroom, in

1038
01:27:34.359 --> 01:27:38.680
the parents' bedroom while he was a baby. But you know,

1039
01:27:38.800 --> 01:27:42.680
babies grow, and there was solutions, you know, like, well,

1040
01:27:42.680 --> 01:27:44.920
we need to get find a solution for this situation.

1041
01:27:45.199 --> 01:27:51.680
And apparently my solution of just getting rid of him

1042
01:27:51.760 --> 01:27:56.680
wasn't a popular one. That was voted down, so you know,

1043
01:27:56.680 --> 01:28:00.840
they kept the baby and moved to a bigger house.

1044
01:28:02.279 --> 01:28:04.319
I wanted to stay there. I had my own bedroom.

1045
01:28:05.479 --> 01:28:09.079
I liked that house. It's the only house I've ever

1046
01:28:09.279 --> 01:28:15.399
liked ever. I loved. I loved that house, and it

1047
01:28:15.520 --> 01:28:20.439
was the first nice place I'd ever lived. And I

1048
01:28:20.479 --> 01:28:23.600
think because the memories of being there for the first

1049
01:28:23.720 --> 01:28:27.439
year and also my little brother being born out it

1050
01:28:27.479 --> 01:28:30.000
was a beautiful time as well, and he was running around.

1051
01:28:30.439 --> 01:28:32.199
It's like having a little puppy, isn't it. Really, When

1052
01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:38.359
you get a baby, it's very entertaining and then a

1053
01:28:38.479 --> 01:28:46.640
novelty wears off. I shouldn't say stuff like that, but

1054
01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:56.760
it is true. So as a kid it was true, okay, right,

1055
01:28:58.199 --> 01:29:02.279
And then when my nan and grandad living there, it

1056
01:29:02.439 --> 01:29:07.159
kind of you know, from ninety one onwards, my name

1057
01:29:07.279 --> 01:29:12.520
was living there on our own, so I was visiting

1058
01:29:12.600 --> 01:29:16.039
and just that house was in my life for forty

1059
01:29:16.119 --> 01:29:21.680
years or thirty thirty odd years. It is the only

1060
01:29:22.960 --> 01:29:26.279
the only place really, I mean, my dad's house now

1061
01:29:26.399 --> 01:29:29.560
has been in He's lived at the same place for

1062
01:29:30.399 --> 01:29:34.960
since what probably early nineties, So that's a long time,

1063
01:29:35.000 --> 01:29:42.159
isn't it. Yeah, So he's that's what's it ninety two thousand,

1064
01:29:42.359 --> 01:29:47.640
two thousand and ten, twenty thirty five years or whatever.

1065
01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:53.159
He's lived there, BlimE me, thirty four thirty three thirty four.

1066
01:29:55.439 --> 01:29:57.199
So I'm kind of used to him. But I don't

1067
01:29:57.199 --> 01:29:59.920
go very often, but I'm used to that. I'm kind

1068
01:29:59.920 --> 01:30:02.439
of I used to live in here now. Although I

1069
01:30:02.439 --> 01:30:05.000
could really perhaps do something a little bit better with

1070
01:30:05.039 --> 01:30:12.680
the police, I don't quite know what, I mean, how

1071
01:30:12.680 --> 01:30:20.039
do you improve perfection? I don't know. But anyway, so

1072
01:30:20.039 --> 01:30:23.880
you're looking at the front of the house. There's a

1073
01:30:23.960 --> 01:30:27.960
window downstairs, a window upstairs, so the window downstairs on

1074
01:30:27.960 --> 01:30:32.279
the right, and there's a bit of grass on the right,

1075
01:30:32.920 --> 01:30:37.079
and then there's another house connected, so it was a

1076
01:30:37.119 --> 01:30:42.239
semi detached house. The other house connected was basically just

1077
01:30:42.319 --> 01:30:49.279
the opposite, although they did knock through I remember going there.

1078
01:30:49.319 --> 01:31:00.319
They knocked through the living room into the Yeah, they

1079
01:31:00.399 --> 01:31:05.079
knocked through the living room into the kitchen, and I

1080
01:31:05.079 --> 01:31:07.800
think I had an extension as well, so it's a

1081
01:31:07.880 --> 01:31:11.920
much bigger space inside their house. But then they had

1082
01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:16.520
less guard because the back garden wasn't big. Really, it

1083
01:31:16.560 --> 01:31:18.800
was a nice size. I mean, I'd be very happy

1084
01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:24.520
with a size, a small or small one. I mean,

1085
01:31:24.560 --> 01:31:26.600
small ones better than no one at all, isn't it that?

1086
01:31:27.000 --> 01:31:32.479
You know what I mean? So, but looking at the front,

1087
01:31:33.640 --> 01:31:36.520
the window downstairs was for the living room, for the

1088
01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:40.119
living room. The windows upstairs, the one above that was

1089
01:31:40.159 --> 01:31:43.720
for the what was my name's bedroom It was originally

1090
01:31:46.600 --> 01:31:50.159
my dad's in his wife's bedroom. And then you got

1091
01:31:50.159 --> 01:31:55.279
the front door to left upstairs. From that, the first

1092
01:31:56.960 --> 01:32:02.600
window up there was my bedroom room window mine, mine,

1093
01:32:03.119 --> 01:32:09.800
my first ever bedroom, my first ever bedroom, I mean, wow,

1094
01:32:11.640 --> 01:32:17.880
I had it's my first as a child, I had

1095
01:32:18.079 --> 01:32:21.880
three bedrooms of my own. I was very lucky actually

1096
01:32:23.239 --> 01:32:27.960
that I mean in a way, although I didn't eh,

1097
01:32:28.760 --> 01:32:31.760
you know, it was I preferred the small house. But

1098
01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:34.880
both my older brothers were sharing a room. Wasn't really

1099
01:32:34.880 --> 01:32:39.880
fair on them. But I did realize at the time,

1100
01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:43.000
although it wasn't fair on them, my happiness was way

1101
01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:47.800
more important. I realized that when I was seven, I

1102
01:32:47.840 --> 01:32:52.840
came to that conclusion. And when I was eight, I thought, yeah,

1103
01:32:52.840 --> 01:32:57.399
there's too many of us. Now, one of the older

1104
01:32:57.439 --> 01:33:00.960
ones needs to move out. Maybe if that both of

1105
01:33:00.960 --> 01:33:02.840
the older ones move out, then the baby can go

1106
01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:05.720
into the other room. Well, I can move into that

1107
01:33:05.800 --> 01:33:07.479
room because it's bigger, and he can move into the

1108
01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:13.560
small room, and we just don't mention the other brothers again.

1109
01:33:15.319 --> 01:33:17.199
But you know, I was eight years old. Logic wasn't

1110
01:33:17.800 --> 01:33:23.720
at the top. I just I don't think I was

1111
01:33:23.800 --> 01:33:26.840
built for a big family. I know some people say, well,

1112
01:33:26.880 --> 01:33:29.479
it's only four kids, it's not a big family, but

1113
01:33:29.560 --> 01:33:37.039
it's It was noisy, very very very noisy, very chaotic

1114
01:33:37.119 --> 01:33:47.239
at times, and I don't know, I kind of I

1115
01:33:47.319 --> 01:33:53.279
didn't always enjoy it, if I'm honest, I was very

1116
01:33:53.319 --> 01:33:57.359
different from them, and we were all very different. Really.

1117
01:33:58.239 --> 01:34:03.920
I just I wasn't really into crowds. And four kids

1118
01:34:04.039 --> 01:34:11.560
two adults is a crowd. That's a crowded space. I

1119
01:34:11.720 --> 01:34:16.239
liked my space. I remember my dad shouting up at

1120
01:34:16.239 --> 01:34:22.079
the window once and where are you Jason? I said,

1121
01:34:22.880 --> 01:34:28.720
I'm in my I'm here in the bedroom. I said,

1122
01:34:28.720 --> 01:34:31.000
why are you asking me where I am? It's what

1123
01:34:31.000 --> 01:34:34.279
do you mean? I said, you're literally standing below my window,

1124
01:34:34.319 --> 01:34:37.600
shouting up at my window asking me where I am.

1125
01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:41.119
If you didn't know where I was, then why would

1126
01:34:41.159 --> 01:34:43.920
you be looking at the window. You liarally know I'm here,

1127
01:34:43.960 --> 01:34:47.319
don't you? He said, I can see you now. I

1128
01:34:47.359 --> 01:34:49.800
said no, I mean before I was standing at the window,

1129
01:34:50.039 --> 01:34:52.640
you were shouting up at the window. And he said,

1130
01:34:52.680 --> 01:34:54.920
how do you know I stand at the window shouting

1131
01:34:55.000 --> 01:34:57.239
up If you weren't at the window looking down, how

1132
01:34:57.239 --> 01:35:00.119
do you know where I was? I said, because when

1133
01:35:00.159 --> 01:35:04.000
I got to the window, you were standing there. I said,

1134
01:35:04.000 --> 01:35:06.199
maybe when I got to the window, you were standing there.

1135
01:35:07.319 --> 01:35:11.520
And he said that one of us said it, and

1136
01:35:11.640 --> 01:35:16.479
he said, should we just stop this now? I said,

1137
01:35:16.520 --> 01:35:20.520
what do you mean? He said, well, I don't know.

1138
01:35:20.560 --> 01:35:23.640
I'd just rather go back to talking about the music.

1139
01:35:25.399 --> 01:35:27.039
I mean, how did you even get on to talking

1140
01:35:27.039 --> 01:35:32.000
about rooms and you know, wishing you'd had a smaller family.

1141
01:35:32.560 --> 01:35:36.159
How do you get from Blondie and Shaking Stevens and

1142
01:35:36.199 --> 01:35:40.039
Bucks fizz and to that? I mean, you were talking

1143
01:35:40.039 --> 01:35:46.000
about walking around the field reading the lyrics from Looking magazine,

1144
01:35:46.680 --> 01:35:49.159
and you were confused whether or not that memory was

1145
01:35:49.199 --> 01:35:52.640
correct because you remember doing that around your like the

1146
01:35:52.640 --> 01:35:56.720
little school you went to, and you had to correct

1147
01:35:56.760 --> 01:35:59.319
and realize that whether one that was true, but it

1148
01:35:59.399 --> 01:36:06.239
was true because you weren't at high school yet. I said, okay,

1149
01:36:07.159 --> 01:36:09.640
I said, well what what what? What are you getting

1150
01:36:09.680 --> 01:36:13.520
at he said, I thought we'd just maybe get back

1151
01:36:13.560 --> 01:36:17.159
to the music. I said, all about the description of

1152
01:36:17.159 --> 01:36:21.000
the house, he said, do you think anyone really wants

1153
01:36:21.039 --> 01:36:23.800
to know the description of a house that you lived

1154
01:36:23.840 --> 01:36:29.880
in when you were eight years old? I don't know.

1155
01:36:31.119 --> 01:36:36.239
Some people might said how many how many rooms was there?

1156
01:36:37.359 --> 01:36:44.640
Or bedrooms? You mean? He said, yeah? Three? And downstairs?

1157
01:36:44.640 --> 01:36:52.760
What was their living room? Kitchen? Yeah, kitchen, anything else? Well,

1158
01:36:52.760 --> 01:36:56.159
there was a bathroom upstairs, and there's a toilet downstairs.

1159
01:36:56.760 --> 01:37:00.239
But the bathroom also had a toilet, but the it

1160
01:37:00.279 --> 01:37:04.960
was very small. Not the toilet itself. The toilet was

1161
01:37:04.960 --> 01:37:09.920
normal size, but the room that the toilet was in

1162
01:37:10.399 --> 01:37:17.800
was quite small. In fact, it was a little bit

1163
01:37:17.800 --> 01:37:19.399
of a struggle to get in there when I was

1164
01:37:19.600 --> 01:37:24.600
sort of a bit bigger. Got stuck once. But I

1165
01:37:24.640 --> 01:37:29.520
don't want to talk about it. Very hard to maneuver,

1166
01:37:30.119 --> 01:37:35.279
because there's certain maneuvers during a toilet session that needs

1167
01:37:35.319 --> 01:37:40.640
a degree of movement and flexibility, and if you're squashed

1168
01:37:40.680 --> 01:37:45.199
against two walls, it's hard, you know, without sort of

1169
01:37:45.239 --> 01:37:49.760
going into details. Can't tell me more, Tell me more?

1170
01:37:51.560 --> 01:37:53.920
Did you get very far? Tell me more? Tell me more?

1171
01:37:54.640 --> 01:37:59.239
Like did he have a car right, Okay, back to

1172
01:37:59.640 --> 01:38:04.800
the side Adam in the ants Standard Deliver. So I

1173
01:38:04.880 --> 01:38:15.760
remember seeing on morning TV, probably Saturday morning, there was

1174
01:38:16.079 --> 01:38:19.840
a I could not a documentary, but there was like

1175
01:38:19.880 --> 01:38:23.560
a short thing where they were talking about the behind

1176
01:38:23.720 --> 01:38:29.640
the scenes of making that video Standard Deliver. I don't

1177
01:38:29.640 --> 01:38:32.399
if you remember the lyrics for that. It was stand

1178
01:38:32.600 --> 01:38:37.199
and deliver your money or your life, try and use

1179
01:38:37.239 --> 01:38:41.199
a mirror, not a bullet or a knife. And even

1180
01:38:41.399 --> 01:38:52.760
though you, even though you choose to blow, your conscience

1181
01:38:52.840 --> 01:39:00.600
will be mine or mine even though jose you know

1182
01:39:00.680 --> 01:39:04.800
what the word was, I missed out. I asked you

1183
01:39:04.880 --> 01:39:09.239
to start with it be oh oh ho oh ha

1184
01:39:09.800 --> 01:39:13.439
oh ho do do do do do do do? Do?

1185
01:39:14.159 --> 01:39:17.439
I know acaid, don't you ever don't you? Okay, different song.

1186
01:39:19.560 --> 01:39:26.000
I remember this one, Smoky Robinson being with you. It's

1187
01:39:26.039 --> 01:39:29.560
that the one and okay what they see a baton me?

1188
01:39:29.920 --> 01:39:34.960
And and okay what they do and okay about anything

1189
01:39:35.000 --> 01:39:39.600
else but being with you, being with you, people to

1190
01:39:39.760 --> 01:39:46.039
say day always do do do do for you? I

1191
01:39:46.079 --> 01:39:50.159
remember the he was walking on the beach, Smoky Robinson

1192
01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:56.439
with his really soft voice, walking on the beach, maybe barefooted.

1193
01:39:56.560 --> 01:39:59.000
I don't know. I wasn't looking at his feet, I

1194
01:39:59.079 --> 01:40:00.680
wasn't looking at any part of body. I'm just saying

1195
01:40:00.680 --> 01:40:03.359
that I wasn't particularly focused on his feet. But I

1196
01:40:03.359 --> 01:40:10.079
do remember it was a beach and it was at

1197
01:40:10.119 --> 01:40:15.199
number one for two weeks, and I liked that song. Now,

1198
01:40:15.279 --> 01:40:21.039
I don't remember Michael Jackson being number one with One

1199
01:40:21.119 --> 01:40:26.319
Day in Your Life, because, from the looks of it,

1200
01:40:26.359 --> 01:40:29.960
Michael Jackson did not have a number one during nineteen

1201
01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:34.359
eighty the nineteen eighty one, twenty seventh for June, he

1202
01:40:34.520 --> 01:40:40.920
had One Day in your Life. So I'm surprised at that.

1203
01:40:41.279 --> 01:40:44.960
Why was that? Just the reason I'm surprise is because

1204
01:40:47.560 --> 01:40:56.680
he had Off the Wall, which was either I think

1205
01:40:56.720 --> 01:40:59.800
it was seventy nine, and One Day in your Life

1206
01:40:59.880 --> 01:41:07.239
was not on Off the Wall. So where did One

1207
01:41:07.319 --> 01:41:12.840
Day in Your Life? It was released in ninety from

1208
01:41:12.880 --> 01:41:17.239
the album One Day in Your Life nineteen eighty one. Really,

1209
01:41:24.680 --> 01:41:27.079
so I'm confused. So I'm looking at One Day in

1210
01:41:27.119 --> 01:41:29.720
Your Life as a song recorded by American singer Mark

1211
01:41:29.880 --> 01:41:35.039
Jackson for his nineteen seventy five album Forever Michael, which

1212
01:41:35.359 --> 01:41:39.560
I like. That's that album. It's a great album. Lyrics

1213
01:41:39.600 --> 01:41:43.039
by Rene Armond was issued as a single in the

1214
01:41:43.119 --> 01:41:50.680
UK nineteen seventy five, later released March twentieth, nineteen eighty one,

1215
01:41:51.279 --> 01:41:54.840
as a single from the compilation album One Day in

1216
01:41:54.880 --> 01:42:00.319
Your Life due to the commercial interest that generated from

1217
01:42:00.319 --> 01:42:05.600
the salves of Jackson's hit nineteen seventy nine album Off

1218
01:42:05.640 --> 01:42:13.560
the Wall. Okay. While a modest US hit, it was

1219
01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:19.840
bigger hit in the UK. It became the sixth best

1220
01:42:19.840 --> 01:42:24.359
seller single of nineteen eighty one. That's kind of weird,

1221
01:42:24.680 --> 01:42:28.520
not not weird. Just if I think of nineteen eighty one,

1222
01:42:29.319 --> 01:42:33.359
I thought that he released Thriller, but maybe it was

1223
01:42:33.479 --> 01:42:44.439
later on than it. Shaking Stevens Julie Woo, Julie. I

1224
01:42:44.520 --> 01:42:48.840
love Shaking Stephens. I used to dance like Shaking Stephens,

1225
01:42:49.000 --> 01:42:51.359
or as I used to like it to say the

1226
01:42:51.399 --> 01:42:54.640
other if I said words at the time, I used

1227
01:42:54.640 --> 01:42:57.960
to dec like to tell people Shaking Stevens likes to

1228
01:42:58.119 --> 01:43:04.520
dance like me. Craftwork the model. Now I don't remember

1229
01:43:04.520 --> 01:43:09.960
this at the time. Great song, she use a model

1230
01:43:10.039 --> 01:43:14.279
and she's looking good. Do do Do Do Do do Do?

1231
01:43:17.600 --> 01:43:23.079
Love that song. They're the type of songs that I

1232
01:43:23.159 --> 01:43:26.600
just don't hear anywhere. I don't you know, I kind

1233
01:43:26.600 --> 01:43:28.880
of forget about them, and then when I hear them,

1234
01:43:28.880 --> 01:43:36.439
I think, wow, I love that song. The jam town

1235
01:43:36.600 --> 01:43:41.319
called Alice Malice rather sorry, and I like that as well.

1236
01:43:41.319 --> 01:43:47.079
It was good old type fit. Does anyone remember this

1237
01:43:47.119 --> 01:43:53.119
one in the Jungle? The Jungle a lie in Steve's

1238
01:43:53.199 --> 01:43:58.760
Denied the Jungle. It was a good song like that

1239
01:43:59.239 --> 01:44:05.159
number three weeks it was number one. I'm just going

1240
01:44:05.239 --> 01:44:08.880
to go Down Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder Ebony and Ivory,

1241
01:44:09.560 --> 01:44:17.840
twenty fourth of April nineteen eighty two. Wow. Now I

1242
01:44:17.880 --> 01:44:24.159
would have been eleven years old, so I was in

1243
01:44:24.199 --> 01:44:35.840
the first year of high school. Eb Bernie and for me,

1244
01:44:37.520 --> 01:44:39.520
so yeah, I was number one for three weeks. So

1245
01:44:39.640 --> 01:44:46.279
I loved that song. I used to sing the lyrics.

1246
01:44:47.159 --> 01:44:50.880
It's something I used to do in high school. Not

1247
01:44:50.960 --> 01:44:56.560
all the time, but sometimes I needed to be on

1248
01:44:56.640 --> 01:45:02.119
my own and i'd walk around the field, the playfield,

1249
01:45:02.920 --> 01:45:06.239
and I would sing to myself and i'd sing the

1250
01:45:06.359 --> 01:45:12.039
songs like Ebony and Ivory, or i'd sing madness songs

1251
01:45:12.239 --> 01:45:16.000
or you know, different songs. But that was one of

1252
01:45:16.079 --> 01:45:22.439
my favorite songs at the time. Nicole A little piece.

1253
01:45:22.520 --> 01:45:26.119
I don't know that one Madness House of Fun. I

1254
01:45:26.319 --> 01:45:29.079
got to number one for two weeks. Goodie two Shoes,

1255
01:45:29.199 --> 01:45:36.960
Adam Inier no adam Ant, not adam any ants, Captain Sensible,

1256
01:45:37.039 --> 01:45:41.359
happy talk, happy talking talking, happy talk, talk about things

1257
01:45:41.399 --> 01:45:47.399
you like to do. Love that song. I've never been

1258
01:45:47.439 --> 01:45:51.359
to me, Charlene, that's a great song as well. Wow,

1259
01:45:51.359 --> 01:45:54.359
I forgot about that one. And then of course Fame

1260
01:45:55.720 --> 01:45:59.760
I Want to Live Forever and that was July night

1261
01:45:59.760 --> 01:46:06.800
in the Too Dex's Midnight Runners. Come On, Eileen and

1262
01:46:08.279 --> 01:46:12.840
number four. That was number one for four weeks August

1263
01:46:12.920 --> 01:46:16.880
eighty two. And yeah, I remember that that was a

1264
01:46:16.920 --> 01:46:20.479
really popular song during my disco years when I was

1265
01:46:20.520 --> 01:46:24.640
a DJ and Survivor. Was it because you just played

1266
01:46:24.640 --> 01:46:27.560
this the beginning that there's the first few chords of

1267
01:46:27.600 --> 01:46:31.159
the song do Do Do Do Do Do Do and with no,

1268
01:46:31.439 --> 01:46:34.000
I just like do do do Do Do Do do do?

1269
01:46:34.000 --> 01:46:39.680
Do you know? With whaen so do do do? Do? Do? Do? Do?

1270
01:46:39.399 --> 01:46:44.359
Do Do Do Do do do? Okay, it sounded it

1271
01:46:44.560 --> 01:46:47.239
sounded kind of right to me when I first started

1272
01:46:47.279 --> 01:46:51.640
singing it. I have the Tiger by Survivor. Great song,

1273
01:46:52.199 --> 01:46:55.279
but that was like Rockie, wasn't it. I have the tag.

1274
01:46:55.399 --> 01:46:59.199
Oh yeah, that was number one for four weeks, so

1275
01:46:59.239 --> 01:47:03.239
I'm yes in that was because of the Rocky movie.

1276
01:47:04.039 --> 01:47:08.079
Oh this is another song that I don't hear very

1277
01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:14.399
often past the Ducci for Musical Youth nineteen eighty two October,

1278
01:47:16.000 --> 01:47:17.800
and I still to this day do not know what

1279
01:47:17.840 --> 01:47:23.840
they're talking about or what they were saying, like it's

1280
01:47:23.880 --> 01:47:29.760
like Eastern nariation, their Vorian whatever. It's like what, But

1281
01:47:29.800 --> 01:47:39.000
I love them. I actually yeah, wow. I bought their album,

1282
01:47:39.520 --> 01:47:44.520
one of the first ever albums I bought. I bought

1283
01:47:44.560 --> 01:47:49.399
that album, Musical Youth. I did, I did, I did,

1284
01:47:50.560 --> 01:47:52.119
and I listened to all of it. I liked all

1285
01:47:52.159 --> 01:47:59.000
the songs. Culture Club do You Really Want to Hurt Me?

1286
01:48:00.039 --> 01:48:01.720
Watch the Club was a weird one because I loved

1287
01:48:01.720 --> 01:48:05.239
all that stuff as well. Nineteen eighty two, twenty third

1288
01:48:05.239 --> 01:48:09.359
of October. I don't know if it's the first song,

1289
01:48:09.399 --> 01:48:10.960
but it's the first song to get to number one

1290
01:48:10.960 --> 01:48:16.079
according to this now. I remember we was on holiday

1291
01:48:16.239 --> 01:48:22.760
in Wales and we were watching the TV black and

1292
01:48:22.800 --> 01:48:25.880
white TV. We had this little portable thing running off

1293
01:48:25.880 --> 01:48:30.560
a generator and we're all sitting around. Maybe there's a

1294
01:48:30.600 --> 01:48:37.560
campfire I don't know if that is probably during the day.

1295
01:48:38.079 --> 01:48:39.760
It was summer, so it might have been in the evening.

1296
01:48:40.159 --> 01:48:42.800
It's not really relevant, is it to the story. We

1297
01:48:42.880 --> 01:48:45.520
need to know precisely what time it was and what

1298
01:48:45.640 --> 01:48:52.279
is everyone wearing and who had the most regular bowel

1299
01:48:52.319 --> 01:48:55.399
movement at that time. No, we don't need all that information.

1300
01:48:57.159 --> 01:49:05.560
I there was a conversation right about boy George, because

1301
01:49:05.680 --> 01:49:08.760
boy George was so pretty. If you can look back,

1302
01:49:08.880 --> 01:49:18.760
he was a very attractive person, beautiful eyes or you know,

1303
01:49:19.560 --> 01:49:24.159
just saying it's just I would say factual, he's very

1304
01:49:25.840 --> 01:49:33.359
I loved him. Anyway, we were having this argument between us,

1305
01:49:33.359 --> 01:49:39.159
so the five of us is what is it? Me

1306
01:49:40.239 --> 01:49:44.199
my oldest brother, my other brother was also older than me,

1307
01:49:45.880 --> 01:49:52.359
the father, the mother, and we're all saying arguing between us,

1308
01:49:52.399 --> 01:49:54.600
like is it a boy or is it a girl?

1309
01:49:55.119 --> 01:49:58.279
Is it a man or is it a woman? You know,

1310
01:49:59.640 --> 01:50:03.720
a part my little brother who was he was just

1311
01:50:03.800 --> 01:50:06.319
like I want to do a pooh, I need a

1312
01:50:06.359 --> 01:50:08.720
pooh because it was only four years old, wasn't he

1313
01:50:10.039 --> 01:50:19.039
It wasn't too interested in culture club. I'm pretty sure

1314
01:50:19.079 --> 01:50:22.800
one of us, maybe me, I don't know, maybe someone

1315
01:50:22.800 --> 01:50:28.560
else said maybe it's in the name boy George, but

1316
01:50:28.600 --> 01:50:33.239
it looks naked girl. He looks naked girl. It was

1317
01:50:33.279 --> 01:50:43.159
confusing because back then and his name is boy George.

1318
01:50:43.319 --> 01:50:46.920
It was kind of it was kind of it's weird.

1319
01:50:47.520 --> 01:50:55.680
But oh he was so gorgeous. Oh he's still doing good.

1320
01:50:55.880 --> 01:50:59.239
I've seen him, well, not recent but like in recent

1321
01:50:59.359 --> 01:51:06.880
years on these music shows that he he does where

1322
01:51:06.920 --> 01:51:10.359
he's a judge and he just it seems to be ageless.

1323
01:51:12.520 --> 01:51:21.119
I'd say another one was beautiful and as adamant. I

1324
01:51:21.159 --> 01:51:24.720
don't honestly, he just he will all let make up,

1325
01:51:24.800 --> 01:51:27.439
but he didn't need because that was part of his act,

1326
01:51:27.560 --> 01:51:34.079
wasn't it. But he was super handsome, actually pretty, he

1327
01:51:34.279 --> 01:51:38.800
was pretty anyway. I don't know why I'm talking about

1328
01:51:38.800 --> 01:51:42.199
that bees, Yeah, because they were kind of the same

1329
01:51:42.279 --> 01:51:47.319
kind of period when they I suppose Eddie Grant, Oh

1330
01:51:47.439 --> 01:51:51.079
don't one a dance? Wasn't that? Also on a Beach

1331
01:51:52.640 --> 01:51:56.239
that was at number one for three weeks? The jam

1332
01:51:56.520 --> 01:52:03.159
beat Surrender Don't Remember that one? Renee and Srinato eighteen

1333
01:52:03.319 --> 01:52:09.199
December eighty two, four weeks. I remember this one. I'm

1334
01:52:09.239 --> 01:52:12.199
not going to sing it, but it was like if

1335
01:52:12.239 --> 01:52:18.000
your love my Darling see if Your Love and it

1336
01:52:18.079 --> 01:52:24.079
was great. So that was eighty two. I could go on,

1337
01:52:24.159 --> 01:52:26.319
I'm going to do eighty three because eighty three was

1338
01:52:26.359 --> 01:52:30.960
a big year. This is probably when I got into

1339
01:52:31.000 --> 01:52:35.960
my favorite songs. And it's not just because Michael Jackson

1340
01:52:36.039 --> 01:52:40.119
was in the charts, but some of my top songs

1341
01:52:40.239 --> 01:52:45.159
I would say, oh, maybe not, but not all of

1342
01:52:44.840 --> 01:52:48.079
my songs I liked got to number one. But you've

1343
01:52:48.119 --> 01:52:51.560
got Phil Collins you can't hurry love. Men at Work

1344
01:52:51.680 --> 01:52:56.279
down Under and well it's okay. Two of my favorite

1345
01:52:56.319 --> 01:53:01.119
songs that I remember of that year because that's when

1346
01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:03.640
I went in to hospital. I had my appendix out

1347
01:53:04.479 --> 01:53:09.159
Men at Work down Under and Bonnie Tyler totally Clips

1348
01:53:09.159 --> 01:53:13.239
at the Heart. Both those songs were my favorite songs

1349
01:53:13.520 --> 01:53:18.439
at the time, so I had my appendix out. Probably

1350
01:53:18.840 --> 01:53:24.000
I don't know, Summer eighty three, my moon maybe like

1351
01:53:25.479 --> 01:53:31.439
June May, June May. Maybe, I don't know. I was

1352
01:53:31.439 --> 01:53:35.479
still at school. God, that would have actually, that would

1353
01:53:35.479 --> 01:53:39.880
have been distraught. If I'd had to have that time

1354
01:53:39.920 --> 01:53:44.319
in hospital and then that time recovering and didn't get

1355
01:53:44.319 --> 01:53:48.520
to lose any school time, that would have been Oh

1356
01:53:48.840 --> 01:53:51.159
Luckily I did. I managed to lose some time at school.

1357
01:53:51.239 --> 01:54:00.239
So that's good. Cack goo goo catch a goo goo too,

1358
01:54:00.239 --> 01:54:06.920
shy Michael Jackson, Billy Jean got to number one, Duranne DuRane.

1359
01:54:07.039 --> 01:54:11.239
Is this something I should know? Oh? But this was?

1360
01:54:13.000 --> 01:54:16.920
Is there something I should know? Is it something I

1361
01:54:17.000 --> 01:54:21.279
should know? Is there something oh I should know? See?

1362
01:54:21.399 --> 01:54:25.960
I never give up. David Bowie, Let's dance, Let's dance.

1363
01:54:28.199 --> 01:54:39.359
Span that buddy true. So I would say every Breath

1364
01:54:39.399 --> 01:54:45.079
you Take, new edition Candy Girl. I like that song.

1365
01:54:45.239 --> 01:54:49.640
Every Breath You Take was good. Rod start Paul Young

1366
01:54:50.640 --> 01:54:56.439
wherever I lay my hat that this is weird because

1367
01:54:56.479 --> 01:55:00.720
something's missing and I'm going to skip ahea head so

1368
01:55:00.880 --> 01:55:05.880
culture Club Calm a comedian. Red red Wine ub forty.

1369
01:55:07.000 --> 01:55:12.079
I remember listening to Red Red Wine, and that was

1370
01:55:12.119 --> 01:55:14.600
one of my favorite songs of that year as well,

1371
01:55:16.560 --> 01:55:19.319
But I don't remember that little rapping bit at the end.

1372
01:55:19.800 --> 01:55:26.520
You here, that's the ice cream van. It's been like

1373
01:55:26.560 --> 01:55:36.359
a hurricane out there, half a hurricane today. That was

1374
01:55:36.479 --> 01:55:41.199
very loud. Yeah, it's a very loud ice cream van.

1375
01:55:42.079 --> 01:55:49.199
It's almost like it was inside the building. Yeah, Paul

1376
01:55:49.319 --> 01:55:54.319
Young loved Poor Young ub forty. Red Red Wine I

1377
01:55:54.439 --> 01:55:59.119
was in the rolling roller skating rink that we had,

1378
01:56:00.079 --> 01:56:01.880
and it was a size It wasn't it's like a

1379
01:56:01.960 --> 01:56:04.279
size or a small garden. It wasn't like a big thing.

1380
01:56:04.800 --> 01:56:08.079
It was brilliant because there was very very little to

1381
01:56:08.119 --> 01:56:10.920
do where I lived, so I used to go there

1382
01:56:11.560 --> 01:56:14.680
and I remember listening to Red red Wine because they'd

1383
01:56:14.680 --> 01:56:18.960
played songs, hit songs, probably from a jukebox or maybe

1384
01:56:19.520 --> 01:56:21.640
I don't know from where, maybe it was from the radio,

1385
01:56:21.960 --> 01:56:28.680
and they play that loud speakers, and I sometimes I'd

1386
01:56:30.000 --> 01:56:33.640
think that I was There was a mixture of characters

1387
01:56:33.640 --> 01:56:40.600
that I'd like to play. One was Inspector Cluso, but

1388
01:56:40.640 --> 01:56:49.920
then there was also mixed in with Frank Spencer, like clumsy, accillent,

1389
01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:54.399
prone and doing weird things. So I'd end up roller

1390
01:56:54.479 --> 01:56:56.520
skating around the wrong way because there was one way

1391
01:56:56.560 --> 01:56:59.840
to skate, and I'd go round the wrong way and

1392
01:57:00.680 --> 01:57:09.319
be screaming ah and basically only amusing myself. No one

1393
01:57:09.319 --> 01:57:13.199
else found it interesting or humorous. I was just but

1394
01:57:13.319 --> 01:57:16.039
I thought it was brilliant. But unfortunately I used to

1395
01:57:16.079 --> 01:57:23.199
lose control, and yeah, but it was. It was fun

1396
01:57:24.039 --> 01:57:28.319
for me, not for anyone else, but for me, and

1397
01:57:28.680 --> 01:57:31.479
you know what they did. They got rid of I

1398
01:57:31.560 --> 01:57:34.600
say they the town or whoever got rid of the

1399
01:57:34.680 --> 01:57:39.079
roller the roller skating disc thing. It was like a disco, really,

1400
01:57:39.159 --> 01:57:41.840
but it was they got rid of it. It was outside.

1401
01:57:42.079 --> 01:57:43.800
I think it might have had a maybe he did

1402
01:57:43.880 --> 01:57:46.279
have a cover on it. I don't know. They got

1403
01:57:46.359 --> 01:57:49.880
rid of it and they put in like a dustbin.

1404
01:57:51.359 --> 01:58:00.920
They replaced it with some kind of a place for dustbins.

1405
01:58:00.760 --> 01:58:02.479
It really and it was one of the best places

1406
01:58:02.520 --> 01:58:09.880
to go in town for kids. And it was the

1407
01:58:09.920 --> 01:58:14.039
first time I'd ever roller skated, and the roller skates

1408
01:58:14.039 --> 01:58:18.159
were old. Never had anyone anyone that could fit me

1409
01:58:18.199 --> 01:58:21.920
because my feet were extra big. I'd like clown's feet.

1410
01:58:24.640 --> 01:58:29.319
That's why I discovered. I was never able to swim

1411
01:58:29.359 --> 01:58:32.640
above water, but underwater I could get from one end

1412
01:58:32.800 --> 01:58:36.720
to the other in like three seconds because of my

1413
01:58:36.760 --> 01:58:40.479
big feet. I just I used to do. The Man

1414
01:58:40.520 --> 01:58:45.239
from Atlantis started swimming, well, I just basically looked like

1415
01:58:45.279 --> 01:58:48.880
an eel, just flapping and I if you ever seen

1416
01:58:48.880 --> 01:58:54.960
men from Atlantis, just google it or YouTube like man

1417
01:58:55.000 --> 01:58:58.199
from Atlantis swimming and you'll see how he swims. That's

1418
01:58:58.239 --> 01:59:04.600
how I used to swim. It was, yeah, it was

1419
01:59:04.800 --> 01:59:08.840
very I'm surprised I didn't hurt myself, although sometimes I did.

1420
01:59:08.960 --> 01:59:12.520
Used to bang myself on the on the face because

1421
01:59:12.560 --> 01:59:16.119
I could always see when I was getting to the end.

1422
01:59:17.479 --> 01:59:21.199
But I used to do complete lengths underwater, but I

1423
01:59:21.239 --> 01:59:23.880
struggled to do half a length on top of the water.

1424
01:59:27.640 --> 01:59:32.279
Billy Joel Uptown Girl. I remember that the Flying Pickets quite. No,

1425
01:59:32.600 --> 01:59:35.560
I'm not saying I remember Uptown Girl like I forgot

1426
01:59:35.720 --> 01:59:39.439
all about that song. No, I mean I remember, like

1427
01:59:39.560 --> 01:59:43.279
the original when it came out, the Flying Pickets. I

1428
01:59:43.560 --> 01:59:45.880
liked this. This was at number one for five weeks,

1429
01:59:45.960 --> 01:59:50.680
and I remember because I think it was number one

1430
01:59:50.720 --> 02:00:00.159
at Christmas. Yeah it was, and it was basic the

1431
02:00:00.520 --> 02:00:04.119
a cappella. So they all sung together, but there's no music.

1432
02:00:05.359 --> 02:00:08.520
Do do do Do Do Do do? So what was

1433
02:00:08.560 --> 02:00:10.880
they do do do Do? Do Do Do Do? But

1434
02:00:10.960 --> 02:00:14.600
and then someone else I go ooh ooh. Someone else

1435
02:00:14.680 --> 02:00:18.960
would be singing la la la la la la, and

1436
02:00:19.079 --> 02:00:24.920
another person would go oh oh. And together it sounded

1437
02:00:25.000 --> 02:00:29.600
ridiculous individually, but together it sounded well. It's still just

1438
02:00:29.680 --> 02:00:32.399
sounded ridiculous if it was me singing, but it sounded

1439
02:00:32.439 --> 02:00:38.000
good with them doing it Paul McCartney Pipes A Piece

1440
02:00:38.359 --> 02:00:46.800
nineteen eighty four. See that doesn't make sense to me, right.

1441
02:00:48.159 --> 02:00:52.399
All I can imagine is Pipes are Piece. It was

1442
02:00:52.479 --> 02:00:55.479
released at Christmas because it was a Christmas song. It

1443
02:00:55.560 --> 02:00:59.319
was based on the football match between the Germans and

1444
02:00:59.399 --> 02:01:02.479
the English. I think it was the Germans in English

1445
02:01:02.560 --> 02:01:07.000
during the First World War and Christmas Day they kind

1446
02:01:07.039 --> 02:01:10.119
of had a truce and played football and showed each

1447
02:01:10.119 --> 02:01:14.079
other pictures of their families. I don't know how realistic

1448
02:01:14.159 --> 02:01:17.359
that was, but and then they went back to their

1449
02:01:17.439 --> 02:01:21.960
trenches and I think someone accidentally had someone else's picture

1450
02:01:22.000 --> 02:01:26.680
there of their wife and fought. Wow. I don't know

1451
02:01:26.680 --> 02:01:30.239
if that's true. I added that, and it was a

1452
02:01:30.279 --> 02:01:33.880
great I really liked that song. But it didn't get

1453
02:01:33.880 --> 02:01:36.720
to number one till the fourteenth of January eighty four,

1454
02:01:38.039 --> 02:01:43.119
so I'm guessing. Yeah, I'm guessing it was like number

1455
02:01:43.119 --> 02:01:48.319
two or something at Christmas. Frankie Goes to Hollywood nineteen

1456
02:01:48.399 --> 02:01:53.560
eighty four. Now my memory of this is, first of all,

1457
02:01:53.600 --> 02:02:04.520
it was went very very controversial, very controversial in my childhood.

1458
02:02:05.439 --> 02:02:10.359
I would say probably the most controversial song during that

1459
02:02:10.439 --> 02:02:16.079
period that I could remember. Yeah, I would say that

1460
02:02:16.680 --> 02:02:21.479
since January nineteen eighty four, so I was thirteen, And

1461
02:02:21.600 --> 02:02:25.520
what I remember there was one particular my stepmm was

1462
02:02:25.560 --> 02:02:31.720
singing it because Radio one banned it. And as soon

1463
02:02:31.760 --> 02:02:35.279
as Radio on banned it, it got to number one.

1464
02:02:36.199 --> 02:02:39.600
I was number one for five weeks. They wouldn't even

1465
02:02:40.239 --> 02:02:42.399
they wouldn't play the video on top of the Pops.

1466
02:02:42.720 --> 02:02:45.039
In fact, I don't think they'd even play the song

1467
02:02:45.159 --> 02:02:51.640
on top of the Pops because that was like BBC

1468
02:02:52.199 --> 02:02:55.399
Radio One with BBC, so I'm not quite sure how

1469
02:02:55.439 --> 02:03:00.000
they worked around it. But I did see the video,

1470
02:03:00.119 --> 02:03:06.800
so I saw it somewhere. I just remember seeing my

1471
02:03:08.840 --> 02:03:14.680
step I'm dancing around singing or holding a spatula or something,

1472
02:03:14.960 --> 02:03:18.439
just cooking in the kitchen, and she was like singing, relaxed,

1473
02:03:18.520 --> 02:03:20.439
don't do weird on it. She was like dancing with

1474
02:03:20.439 --> 02:03:23.119
a song. Because it was a huge hit. I mean,

1475
02:03:23.119 --> 02:03:26.439
it was the biggest song possibly in the Western world

1476
02:03:26.479 --> 02:03:30.359
at the time. I'm not sure how popular it was

1477
02:03:31.600 --> 02:03:35.720
in the Middle East. I don't know, but it definitely Russia,

1478
02:03:35.760 --> 02:03:37.800
but I don't know if it really hit the charts

1479
02:03:37.800 --> 02:03:42.720
in Russia or in career, I don't know, or China.

1480
02:03:42.800 --> 02:03:47.640
I'm not sure, but in Indy, like the western sphere,

1481
02:03:48.359 --> 02:03:55.640
it was a very big song. And there's this one

1482
02:03:55.680 --> 02:03:59.760
bit where she was singing and she was dancing and

1483
02:03:59.800 --> 02:04:04.000
if you just stopped, just as they said, relaxed, don't

1484
02:04:04.039 --> 02:04:07.399
do it when you're relaxed, don't do it, and they're

1485
02:04:07.479 --> 02:04:10.800
like when you want to come, And she just stopped

1486
02:04:10.840 --> 02:04:15.840
and stood there as a statue, all right. And I

1487
02:04:15.880 --> 02:04:18.680
was thinking, I wonder, do you know what the song's about,

1488
02:04:19.880 --> 02:04:23.079
Mummy dearest? Do you do you know? Because I knew,

1489
02:04:24.159 --> 02:04:30.560
I kind of knew. Someone told me a friend. I

1490
02:04:30.600 --> 02:04:32.640
read it in a magazine. No, I didn't. I didn't

1491
02:04:32.640 --> 02:04:37.520
know what it was about. I knew what the I did.

1492
02:04:37.760 --> 02:04:41.960
I kind of did. I didn't completely, to be honest,

1493
02:04:44.000 --> 02:04:48.760
I was thirteen years old. I kind of knew. But

1494
02:04:48.760 --> 02:04:51.319
I just remember thinking, I don't think she knows what

1495
02:04:51.359 --> 02:04:58.159
it's the song's about. Ninety nine red balloons, Nina ninety nine?

1496
02:04:58.319 --> 02:05:00.239
Didn't you do that in like a different lane? Which

1497
02:05:00.319 --> 02:05:03.319
did it in German? Didn't she? Or part of the

1498
02:05:03.399 --> 02:05:13.079
sign German? Or Bardi? She in compang porkin honey hangingpoon.

1499
02:05:14.199 --> 02:05:17.119
I don't know. Maybe it was a different language. And

1500
02:05:17.560 --> 02:05:22.560
that was number one for three weeks. Lana Richie Hello, Yeah,

1501
02:05:22.800 --> 02:05:28.760
that was do you know what? There was two songs,

1502
02:05:30.880 --> 02:05:35.439
and both of them were from nineteen eighty four, which men,

1503
02:05:36.479 --> 02:05:39.720
I don't want to say all men, but some males

1504
02:05:40.800 --> 02:05:51.079
used as in a way to be romantic to ladies,

1505
02:05:53.000 --> 02:05:57.479
some ladies, some men and some ladies. And one of

1506
02:05:57.520 --> 02:06:04.359
those was on a telephone Hello is with me, like

1507
02:06:04.520 --> 02:06:08.319
you know when someone answered the phone or they call hello.

1508
02:06:09.119 --> 02:06:14.000
And another one was Stevie Wonder. I just called it

1509
02:06:14.079 --> 02:06:17.600
say I love you, you know. It's like I can't

1510
02:06:17.680 --> 02:06:20.319
say cheesy, but I think I don't know if it worked.

1511
02:06:20.359 --> 02:06:22.920
I don't know. I tried it in later years but

1512
02:06:23.039 --> 02:06:27.399
didn't work. I tried it once at school at the time,

1513
02:06:27.520 --> 02:06:32.600
like in nineteen eighty four, but just got me detention. Apparently,

1514
02:06:33.319 --> 02:06:38.840
shouldn't be talking to the teacher like that inappropriate. Lana Richie, Hello,

1515
02:06:39.079 --> 02:06:45.359
Durandre around the reflex, Wham wham, wake me up before

1516
02:06:45.399 --> 02:06:49.960
you go go. So I was definitely working at this

1517
02:06:50.039 --> 02:07:03.680
point in the the bakery, in the restaurant play, Yeah,

1518
02:07:03.840 --> 02:07:06.640
I was definitely. So. I was hearing these songs regularly,

1519
02:07:07.239 --> 02:07:15.279
including Relax because they had Radio Caroline on which was

1520
02:07:15.640 --> 02:07:19.039
a band station, but anyone could get it. It just

1521
02:07:19.079 --> 02:07:21.119
had to just tune into it. And it was this

1522
02:07:21.319 --> 02:07:25.680
ship docked off of the back in the waters, I think,

1523
02:07:25.760 --> 02:07:29.840
just out of British waters. So it wasn't upbreaking any rules,

1524
02:07:30.840 --> 02:07:35.439
but it was not. It didn't have a license, and

1525
02:07:35.479 --> 02:07:39.680
they'd play all the top hits and then I think

1526
02:07:39.720 --> 02:07:45.800
they became legal and whatever turned into another I don't

1527
02:07:45.840 --> 02:07:49.359
know who. I don't really know the history. Actually i'd

1528
02:07:49.359 --> 02:07:51.039
been making it up, and as you know, I don't

1529
02:07:51.159 --> 02:07:54.039
like to make things up. I'd like to be very factual.

1530
02:07:56.600 --> 02:07:59.520
See this is my period, nineteen eighty four, A game,

1531
02:08:00.079 --> 02:08:07.439
Types of Peace, Relax, Hello, the Reflex flexxx xx, Duran Duran.

1532
02:08:08.439 --> 02:08:11.159
So I was definitely working in the bake house at

1533
02:08:11.159 --> 02:08:18.960
this time, Saturday and Sunday mornings early and also during

1534
02:08:18.960 --> 02:08:21.039
the summer as well. So nineteen eighty four, during the

1535
02:08:21.079 --> 02:08:32.239
summer I was doing it, and I was also, uh

1536
02:08:32.800 --> 02:08:37.159
but bum bum bum bum bum. Right, I can give

1537
02:08:37.199 --> 02:08:44.199
you an idea, right, So I was doing karate, but

1538
02:08:44.279 --> 02:08:47.239
I remember one particular there's this the only song I

1539
02:08:47.279 --> 02:08:54.760
remember whilst I was doing karate, and I'm going down

1540
02:08:54.800 --> 02:09:02.039
here is nineteen eighty five there must be an Angel

1541
02:09:02.439 --> 02:09:05.880
playing with my heart and that was number one twenty

1542
02:09:05.920 --> 02:09:10.600
seventh of July nineteen eighty five. I don't know how

1543
02:09:10.640 --> 02:09:15.720
on earth that didn't stay at number one forever because

1544
02:09:15.760 --> 02:09:24.800
it was, in my opinion, one of the greatest vocals ever,

1545
02:09:25.199 --> 02:09:31.119
I mean just ever. It was phenomenal. Ana Lynux just

1546
02:09:31.199 --> 02:09:40.239
had one heck of a voice. But I remember, I

1547
02:09:40.239 --> 02:09:45.560
don't know why, I just remember hearing that song during

1548
02:09:45.560 --> 02:09:53.359
that period of doing karate, and that period I wouldn't

1549
02:09:53.359 --> 02:09:55.800
have seen top of the Pops because I was out

1550
02:09:55.840 --> 02:10:02.439
every Tuesday and Thursday evening apart from during the summer

1551
02:10:03.359 --> 02:10:11.439
actually the summer period, so like during July. Yeah, so July,

1552
02:10:11.640 --> 02:10:15.880
I wouldn't have been doing it, but I might have

1553
02:10:15.960 --> 02:10:17.720
been meeting up with them because we used to meet

1554
02:10:17.760 --> 02:10:21.000
up at the park because the school. Once the school

1555
02:10:21.079 --> 02:10:27.199
was closed, couldn't use the the what's it, you know,

1556
02:10:27.239 --> 02:10:34.479
this the hall the sports hall for however many weeks.

1557
02:10:38.239 --> 02:10:42.520
But I still trained, so I'm going to go back.

1558
02:10:42.640 --> 02:10:49.880
Frankie goes to Hollywood Two Tribes again. Loved that so definitely.

1559
02:10:50.199 --> 02:10:58.479
Nineteen eighty four, I was working in the bakery. George

1560
02:10:58.520 --> 02:11:02.399
Michael Careless whisper Stevie Wonder. I just call it say

1561
02:11:02.439 --> 02:11:07.359
I Love You. September nineteen eighty four, the eighth of September.

1562
02:11:07.560 --> 02:11:11.880
That was number one for six weeks. Two Tribes was

1563
02:11:11.960 --> 02:11:21.680
number one for nine weeks. Wow. So that's got to

1564
02:11:21.720 --> 02:11:26.039
be one of Stevie Wonder's biggest all time hits as

1565
02:11:26.079 --> 02:11:29.399
far as being number one. Did he get to number

1566
02:11:29.439 --> 02:11:33.520
one for longer than that with any other songs? I

1567
02:11:33.560 --> 02:11:40.880
don't know that. Perhaps is the Tuesday trivia. I don't know.

1568
02:11:41.079 --> 02:11:44.199
Maybe this is trivia. Is this trivia? I don't know.

1569
02:11:44.319 --> 02:11:46.920
This is kind of trivia and boredom at the same time,

1570
02:11:47.039 --> 02:11:49.960
isn't it. But I'm just talking about my favorite songs.

1571
02:11:50.119 --> 02:11:54.960
So the Power of Love that is my favorite. Frankie

1572
02:11:55.000 --> 02:11:59.159
Go is the Hollywood song out of all of them.

1573
02:11:59.279 --> 02:12:05.119
The Power of Love. No, it isn't wait a minute,

1574
02:12:05.119 --> 02:12:10.479
there was another one. Oh no, the power of Love

1575
02:12:11.520 --> 02:12:18.479
It comes from above here in my home. So relax.

1576
02:12:20.600 --> 02:12:24.600
Two Tribes, The Power of Love all got to number

1577
02:12:24.600 --> 02:12:29.439
one in nineteen eighty four. Didn't they do another song

1578
02:12:29.479 --> 02:12:38.640
that I liked? It? Did another song that I liked

1579
02:12:39.640 --> 02:12:47.840
the Always that I've got to go back discography. I'll

1580
02:12:47.920 --> 02:12:54.319
welcome to the Pleasure Though, Welcome to the Pollutionional. So

1581
02:12:54.439 --> 02:12:57.880
why is that not listed? Then that's what I don't understand.

1582
02:13:00.000 --> 02:13:06.600
It's not listed. Frankie goes to Hollywood, Welcome to the

1583
02:13:06.640 --> 02:13:11.520
Pleasure Home. Nope, it's not It's not listed in nineteen

1584
02:13:11.560 --> 02:13:15.840
eighty four. So this isn't all correct, I would argue.

1585
02:13:16.800 --> 02:13:22.800
So unless it was the B side, perhaps I should

1586
02:13:22.800 --> 02:13:26.279
have known better. Jim Diamond, is that was I should

1587
02:13:26.319 --> 02:13:29.479
have known better. Do Do Do Do Do Do Do

1588
02:13:29.479 --> 02:13:34.039
Do Do, which is a wonderful song. And then do

1589
02:13:34.159 --> 02:13:39.560
they know it's Christmas December nineteen eighty four, so it's

1590
02:13:39.560 --> 02:13:42.840
a Christmas number one five weeks that was not number one,

1591
02:13:45.840 --> 02:13:48.680
So yeah, I definitely I love that song as well.

1592
02:13:48.680 --> 02:14:03.840
But I love the American one as well, the Christmas

1593
02:14:04.199 --> 02:14:06.760
the American version, I just can't remember what it's called now,

1594
02:14:07.159 --> 02:14:10.199
but I like that as well. I thought they're both great,

1595
02:14:11.079 --> 02:14:14.000
and it's both for the same reason, wasn't it. It's

1596
02:14:14.079 --> 02:14:18.079
just the American one had Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder

1597
02:14:18.119 --> 02:14:22.920
and the Boss and I don't mean Molly, I mean

1598
02:14:23.319 --> 02:14:36.520
Bruce Springsteen and Tina Turner and Cindy Lauper did Madonna

1599
02:14:38.159 --> 02:14:40.520
do it as well, because you know what, I see

1600
02:14:40.520 --> 02:14:43.119
the thing. It might be a weird thing to say

1601
02:14:43.159 --> 02:14:48.960
that Cindy Lauper is like Madonna kind of. I'm not

1602
02:14:49.000 --> 02:14:53.119
saying Madonna copied Cindy Lauper, but Cindy Lauper was looked

1603
02:14:53.279 --> 02:14:57.119
kind of almost like the original Madonna. But then you

1604
02:14:57.159 --> 02:15:08.560
could say that Blondie Debbie Allen, Debbie Allen, Debbie, you know, Blondie,

1605
02:15:08.960 --> 02:15:14.840
that maybe she was the original Madonna. And I'm not

1606
02:15:14.880 --> 02:15:19.760
saying this is because they're blonde, but they're not all blonde,

1607
02:15:19.760 --> 02:15:23.359
are they. I mean Debbie Harry, not Alan. Debbie Harry

1608
02:15:23.479 --> 02:15:27.880
was blonde, but she probably wasn't blonde anyway. Sydney Lord

1609
02:15:27.880 --> 02:15:34.000
but had all kindors of hair time after time. I

1610
02:15:34.119 --> 02:15:38.880
love that song so much. And then Madonna O the

1611
02:15:38.920 --> 02:15:44.159
dog's barking again. Hasn't barked hardly any Yeah, hardly anything today.

1612
02:15:45.840 --> 02:15:47.520
I'd tell it's weird. I looked out the window the

1613
02:15:47.560 --> 02:15:49.640
other day because the dog was just barking and barking

1614
02:15:49.640 --> 02:15:54.079
and barking, and I'm thinking, why doesn't the owner told

1615
02:15:54.079 --> 02:15:57.479
them try and calm the dog down? Because I do

1616
02:15:57.520 --> 02:16:00.920
that when Finny starts barking, try and calm him down

1617
02:16:00.960 --> 02:16:04.039
so that the neighbors are not disturbed. I looked out

1618
02:16:04.039 --> 02:16:08.000
the window, and she's just standing there or he whoever

1619
02:16:08.039 --> 02:16:12.279
it is, just standing there watching a dog barking like

1620
02:16:12.439 --> 02:16:15.680
really loud for a good ten to fifteen minutes. I

1621
02:16:16.319 --> 02:16:19.319
wasn't watching for ten to fifteen minutes, but it had

1622
02:16:19.359 --> 02:16:22.000
been barking for that amount of time before I looked,

1623
02:16:23.439 --> 02:16:28.279
and I was just checking to make sure everything was okay.

1624
02:16:28.479 --> 02:16:36.200
I'm thinking, Wow, it's I don't think even if I'd

1625
02:16:36.200 --> 02:16:43.719
got like ten different doctorates in some kind of psychological

1626
02:16:44.319 --> 02:16:51.559
different psychological subjects, I still wouldn't understand humans. Foreigner. I

1627
02:16:51.639 --> 02:16:53.760
want to know what love is. I want you to

1628
02:16:53.799 --> 02:17:00.920
show me a lame page. Oh I know him? Oh? Well,

1629
02:17:01.959 --> 02:17:05.920
dead or alive? You spin me right round, right round

1630
02:17:06.040 --> 02:17:10.399
round like a record? Mean So Phil Bailey and for

1631
02:17:10.840 --> 02:17:16.040
Easy Lover? I love that song what happened to Phil Bailey?

1632
02:17:16.399 --> 02:17:20.120
Because I would argue Phil Bailey was the best vocals

1633
02:17:20.120 --> 02:17:23.239
on that song? And I haven't Phil Collins fan, but

1634
02:17:23.559 --> 02:17:28.079
Phil Bailey, them two together, they should have done more.

1635
02:17:32.000 --> 02:17:34.159
You may argue against this. You might think, oh, it's

1636
02:17:34.200 --> 02:17:37.079
a silly thing to say. But I'll say it anyway.

1637
02:17:38.120 --> 02:17:44.600
Heir like, yeah, especially on my car. My things are

1638
02:17:44.600 --> 02:17:48.920
silly thing to say. But I kind of think that

1639
02:17:48.959 --> 02:17:53.200
they should have done more together as a kind of

1640
02:17:53.239 --> 02:17:57.479
a little double act, you know. I mean, Phil Collins

1641
02:17:57.520 --> 02:17:59.200
had a lot on his plate, didn't he. Let's face it,

1642
02:18:00.000 --> 02:18:02.120
if that greedy was we used to eat a lot.

1643
02:18:02.879 --> 02:18:05.680
But no, he had his band and then he had

1644
02:18:05.719 --> 02:18:11.600
his own, you know, solo career. But the harmonies with

1645
02:18:11.680 --> 02:18:17.840
him and Phil Bailey singing together was just beautiful, and

1646
02:18:19.200 --> 02:18:21.319
I would liked to have seen them do more together.

1647
02:18:23.159 --> 02:18:26.639
That's just that's my personal opinion. I mean, I realize

1648
02:18:26.680 --> 02:18:33.319
we're eighty five ninety five, two thousand and five, twenty fifteen,

1649
02:18:33.440 --> 02:18:39.239
twenty twenty five, forty years too late, but hey, all

1650
02:18:39.440 --> 02:18:43.239
we are the world. So that was the American version

1651
02:18:43.319 --> 02:18:48.680
of our one, and we are the world. We are

1652
02:18:48.840 --> 02:18:56.559
the children. They were both, I would argue. I wouldn't argue,

1653
02:18:56.680 --> 02:19:02.000
but I would say both equally great song, just ruined

1654
02:19:02.040 --> 02:19:05.719
a bit by the video. I just I don't know,

1655
02:19:06.000 --> 02:19:08.879
just both of them. I just don't like I know

1656
02:19:09.000 --> 02:19:11.520
that was the cause, that was the reason for the music.

1657
02:19:11.760 --> 02:19:17.959
I know that I've always struggled with things like these

1658
02:19:18.000 --> 02:19:22.959
big charity events where they have comedy music, but there's

1659
02:19:23.040 --> 02:19:26.600
like really funny comedy sketch and then they'll go to

1660
02:19:26.760 --> 02:19:32.680
a really super serious subject and I can't. I can't

1661
02:19:32.719 --> 02:19:36.280
switch myself like that. That's why I have to avoid

1662
02:19:36.319 --> 02:19:42.200
some TV channels, because some of these like daytime channels

1663
02:19:42.200 --> 02:19:44.719
and only something on in the evening as well, where

1664
02:19:44.719 --> 02:19:49.120
they'll show old TV shows, old comedies which I quite

1665
02:19:49.159 --> 02:19:52.959
like watching sometimes, like Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads

1666
02:19:53.000 --> 02:19:57.559
and just shows from like decades ago that I just

1667
02:19:57.600 --> 02:20:01.760
quite like watching. But then in the advert it's like

1668
02:20:02.760 --> 02:20:08.559
Donkey Sanctuaries and eyelid surgery and all. It's like I

1669
02:20:08.680 --> 02:20:12.159
just like, nah, man, I just I'm trying to just

1670
02:20:12.319 --> 02:20:16.440
enjoy myself and just chill out. So yeah, I kind

1671
02:20:16.440 --> 02:20:25.440
of there's yeah, I'm just moaning and I Phyllis Nelson

1672
02:20:25.520 --> 02:20:33.079
moved closer, moved closer. And of course Paul Hardcastle nineteen

1673
02:20:34.280 --> 02:20:38.399
number one for five weeks. I mean that that really

1674
02:20:42.520 --> 02:20:44.680
that was the one heck of a video, wasn't it.

1675
02:20:45.639 --> 02:20:46.799
If you don't remember, it was.

1676
02:20:48.520 --> 02:21:00.079
No nineteen nineteen, No nineteen No nineteen nineteen nine, nineteen.

1677
02:21:01.280 --> 02:21:07.079
Nineteen. Yeah, Wow, the crowd. You'll never walk alone. And

1678
02:21:07.239 --> 02:21:09.440
that's an old that's been done so many times, isn't it.

1679
02:21:10.520 --> 02:21:16.920
My favorite version is Elvis Presley working Cruise Storm, Lived

1680
02:21:16.959 --> 02:21:22.319
Your Hair Pie and Sister selected Frankie. I love that song.

1681
02:21:23.520 --> 02:21:29.719
Frankie and dressed as cheerleaders, which we don't well, we

1682
02:21:29.799 --> 02:21:33.719
didn't have in this country, so cheerleaders was something that

1683
02:21:33.879 --> 02:21:42.840
was foreign to this country in nineteen eighty five, and

1684
02:21:42.959 --> 02:21:45.200
they were doing I don't know, it's like a triangle.

1685
02:21:45.239 --> 02:21:48.040
We're all standing on each other's heads and stuff, and

1686
02:21:48.120 --> 02:21:51.799
it was brilliant. I loved it, really big fan out

1687
02:21:51.920 --> 02:21:57.680
song number one for four weeks. Then you have Mixed.

1688
02:21:57.719 --> 02:22:01.920
There must be an Angel seventh of July nineteen eighty five.

1689
02:22:12.479 --> 02:22:16.959
Umm but bum but boom boom, boom boom. That's one

1690
02:22:17.000 --> 02:22:21.120
of my all time favorite songs. It just is. It

1691
02:22:21.159 --> 02:22:25.600
will always be. But sometimes I forget. I forget that

1692
02:22:25.680 --> 02:22:32.360
it is because although individually I like a lot of

1693
02:22:32.360 --> 02:22:36.639
the U of Mix songs, I never ever once listened

1694
02:22:36.639 --> 02:22:43.799
to a YU of Mix album. Madonna Into the Groove

1695
02:22:44.120 --> 02:22:48.479
nineteen eighty five, You Be that was kind of Madonna

1696
02:22:48.600 --> 02:22:53.600
was started just making a that was that her first

1697
02:22:54.159 --> 02:23:00.719
song in number one. Yeah think it was a number

1698
02:23:00.719 --> 02:23:04.799
first number one song in the UK four weeks and

1699
02:23:04.840 --> 02:23:08.879
then ub forty Chrissy Hyde, I Got You Babe. Yeah

1700
02:23:09.120 --> 02:23:13.760
like that David Bowie and Mick Jagger dancing in the

1701
02:23:13.799 --> 02:23:23.600
street four weeks at number one. I think that it

1702
02:23:23.719 --> 02:23:28.559
was like a comedy video, wasn't it. And seeing David

1703
02:23:28.600 --> 02:23:37.319
Bowie and Mick Jagger literally dancing, it was so funny

1704
02:23:37.360 --> 02:23:39.680
that people just kept they wanted to keep watching it

1705
02:23:39.719 --> 02:23:46.799
on TV. The video midyeal If I was that was

1706
02:23:46.840 --> 02:23:53.479
a good song as well. If I was that was

1707
02:23:53.600 --> 02:24:04.319
number one. Jennifer rushed the Power of Love. Wow, huge, huge,

1708
02:24:04.440 --> 02:24:10.760
huge hit, A great ballad wow wow yeah amazing and

1709
02:24:12.360 --> 02:24:17.159
Fergle Sharky A good heart, A good heart. Yeah, I

1710
02:24:17.239 --> 02:24:22.719
like that. I'm your man. Wham Whitney Houston Save All

1711
02:24:22.760 --> 02:24:27.120
My Love for You. So that Whitney Houston's first number

1712
02:24:27.120 --> 02:24:30.879
one hit two weeks and it was a fourteenth of

1713
02:24:30.959 --> 02:24:40.680
December eighty five, so I was now fifteen shaking Stevens.

1714
02:24:40.799 --> 02:24:51.200
Merry Christmas Everyone was the twenty eighth of December, so technically,

1715
02:24:58.479 --> 02:25:03.719
technically Saving All My Love for You was the Christmas

1716
02:25:03.840 --> 02:25:09.479
number one but shaking Stephens. I thought that Merry Christmas

1717
02:25:09.479 --> 02:25:12.680
Everyone was the number one song for Christmas, but it

1718
02:25:12.719 --> 02:25:15.559
says twenty eight for December, but then it might be wrong.

1719
02:25:19.840 --> 02:25:23.040
It would be the most played song though at that time,

1720
02:25:24.079 --> 02:25:28.559
being Christmas and all wet. So that was like nineteen

1721
02:25:28.600 --> 02:25:33.600
eighty five was the last full year of living in

1722
02:25:33.799 --> 02:25:40.879
the big house with my family, and then we just

1723
02:25:40.920 --> 02:25:43.360
had the first few months of nine eighty six. So

1724
02:25:44.719 --> 02:25:49.920
west End Girls, Pet Shop Boys, our hardest sun always

1725
02:25:49.959 --> 02:25:55.280
shines on TV, Billy Ocean, We the Go, We get

1726
02:25:55.399 --> 02:26:00.000
stuff for toff, get going, Diana Ross still making song

1727
02:26:00.200 --> 02:26:05.639
was chain reaction. Wasn't that an old song? It is now,

1728
02:26:05.680 --> 02:26:10.959
I guess, But wasn't Cliff Richard and the ones living

1729
02:26:11.040 --> 02:26:13.920
Doll So that was the young ones as in Rick

1730
02:26:14.000 --> 02:26:27.479
mal Adrian Edmondson, Yeah, and the other two God forgets,

1731
02:26:27.760 --> 02:26:31.319
I don't forget their names now. I never did learn

1732
02:26:31.360 --> 02:26:36.959
the name of the little one George Michael a different

1733
02:26:37.000 --> 02:26:43.719
corner Falco. Rock Me Amadeus, Wow, whether rock Me Amadias

1734
02:26:44.280 --> 02:26:48.920
and Medeias Amadis and Medeias Amideias a Medeias loved that

1735
02:26:49.040 --> 02:26:56.760
song rock Me Amadias BlimE me Papa Don't Preach. I

1736
02:26:56.760 --> 02:27:00.079
remember that twelfth of July nineteen eighty six. I was

1737
02:27:00.120 --> 02:27:06.200
living in the flat with my step mom's mom, my

1738
02:27:06.280 --> 02:27:09.559
step mom's step mom, my step mom, my step grandmother,

1739
02:27:11.200 --> 02:27:13.479
and I used to watch Papa Don't Preach the video

1740
02:27:15.559 --> 02:27:20.760
and I loved it. Loved that video. Although True Blue,

1741
02:27:22.200 --> 02:27:26.399
I loved that video much more. I had it on tape,

1742
02:27:26.559 --> 02:27:29.559
recorded it and I wore the tape out. I loved

1743
02:27:29.559 --> 02:27:33.600
it that much. But as a song, Papa Don't Preach

1744
02:27:35.600 --> 02:27:39.600
is one of my favorite songs Madonna ever did. Just

1745
02:27:39.639 --> 02:27:41.479
that one off song. I loved it, and I love

1746
02:27:41.559 --> 02:27:45.920
the album True Blue, and that's one of my favorite.

1747
02:27:46.120 --> 02:27:49.600
My two favorite albums of Madonna. True Blue and Like

1748
02:27:49.680 --> 02:28:04.079
a Prayer, Wow, Christy Burgh Lady in Red. So my

1749
02:28:04.280 --> 02:28:10.520
sixteenth birthday, Okay, when I turned sixteen, the number one

1750
02:28:10.600 --> 02:28:13.600
song was Boris Gardner. I want to wake up with you,

1751
02:28:15.840 --> 02:28:20.920
and I think anyone's ever said that to me. I

1752
02:28:21.079 --> 02:28:25.719
want to wake up with you. Anyway, I'm going to

1753
02:28:25.760 --> 02:28:29.360
bring this to an end because noisy people are outside again,

1754
02:28:29.440 --> 02:28:32.879
so I would say thank you for listening. Remember to

1755
02:28:32.920 --> 02:28:35.120
be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be

1756
02:28:35.159 --> 02:28:39.319
happy and be gentle of yourself. He deserves to feel safe.

1757
02:28:40.319 --> 02:28:44.000
Lots of love, Bye,