- the protagonist suffers musical outrages and sexual confusion near Milton Keynes…
Age 10.
Parents LP collection…partial remembrance due to trauma…Elkie Brooks, Elton John, Barbara Dickson, James Taylor and worse…Hand of Fate intervenes via inexplicable presence of a Steely Dan LP and the White album…
…Dad tries to spend what I now know to be Quality Time with me by taking me to see massive Queen gig at Milton Keynes Bowl…a blasted heath filled with seventies metal fans…to see the acts, I stand on an orange and white plastic cool box Dad has thoughtfully brought packed lunches in…This elevates me above a sea of hair and denim cutoffs…lineup is Heart…unspeakable…the Teardrop Explodes…Copey is bottled off…bottles contain a yellow liquid…who booked this lineup?..Queen arrive by helicopter…why did we bother having Punk Rock if this was going to happen afterwards?…despite the influence of Freddie Mercury live and exposure to the Flash Gordon soundtrack I grow to be a heterosexual with a hatred of stadium rock…Dad continues trying and gets me my first record…INTERMISSION…
…as you can see I bare my soul in this blog…so I can reveal it was Cold as Ice by Foreigner, not a Captain Beefheart bootleg or the first Burning Spear LP…
…of course this is a shocking single but it does alert me to the 10p bargain record bin in Woolworths…a formative influence…Destiny?…
…Dad redeems himself from the Freddie Mercury grooming incident by taking me to a proper gig…the Passions at Oxford Poly…we are the youngest and oldest people there respectively…not a great band but the gamine, intelligent girl singer and the really cool Echoplex guitar sound stir something up the creek of my psyche…
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