Getting into the meat of it now and the music just keeps on coming...
Drive by The Cars will be forever
linked in my mind with Live Aid, when it was used to accompany film clips of
starving children in Africa. The concert took place two weeks before my
wedding.
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet Of Crisps a classic from 1980 by
the British group Splodgenessabounds, the best name for a group―ever. The title
offers a wry look at my standard diet in my pre-American days.
Name of the Game is an Abba song, however I recommend the version
done by a group few have heard of, called Any Trouble. I like it for two reasons: first, it’s
a good song; and second I went to school with three members of the band. As an
aside my wife slept in the lead guitarists’ bed as an eleven year-old. By way
of explanation, he was not there at the time; his sister was one of her school
friends.
Jerusalem is close to being an alternate British national anthem.
This version by Vangelis comes from the soundtrack of the Oscar winning film Chariots of Fire.
Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer was accompanied by a video that
symbolized MTV at its best.
On The Border by The Eagles. You cannot write a book about living
in America without an Eagles track. So enjoy.
It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me. I have always thought of Billy Joel
as America’s Elton John and when this song came out it confirmed it for
me. At the time he was also
married to Christie Brinkley … how did he ever lose her? Silly man.
New
Religion by Duran Duran. I remember taking my wife who was then my
girlfriend to see Duran Duran at the height of their fame in the
early-eighties. I was surrounded by thousands of screaming girls who all seemed
to be experiencing intense sexual pleasure at the same time; probably the
closest I have come to experiencing Beatlemania.
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