Sunday, 18 October 2015

Wow! And wow!!

This is probably going to seem anticlimactic in relation to the title, but I don't have a wildly interesting life, so anything out of the ordinary can merit an exclamation mark or two.
Just as I was getting ready to go to work last night, I heard a thorough 'blast from the past' on the radio. Gary Gilmore's Eyes by The Adverts. Not only a great song in itself, as far as I'm concerned, but a song that got me into the whole punk genre, my initial reaction to it, as the prog rocker I was then (and still am, I guess), having been more or less entirely negative. I wouldn't say I've never heard the song on the radio before, but it's a very long way from being an everyday occurrence. Back to 1977!
And then, when I got to 'worktown', leaving the station I came across a whole family of cuties. Three brothers (with dad), fairly obviously South African, given the rugby shirts and flags in evidence (their team were playing in the Word Cup quarter final yesterday afternoon). The two younger ones, 10 and 11/12, were cute enough, but 'big bro', 13/14, was just flat out gorgeous. He was wrapped up in a big national flag - would that it could've been my arms instead.

Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B

2 comments:

  1. Hi Sammy,

    It's a pretty catchy tune.

    Gilmore was executed by firing squad in '77, same year the song came out.

    Interestingly, I believe the last US execution by firing squad was in 2010, to one Ronnie Lee Gardner.

    :-)

    -Andy

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    1. Hello Andy
      Gilmore's case was pretty well publicised over here at the time, so the genesis of the song wasn't really much of a mystery. The Adverts' first album, which the single was dropped from at the last minute, is full of 'catchy tunes', and well worth a listen, if you get a chance. TV Smith, The Adverts' 'main man', is still around and gigging - one of my work colleagues saw him play in a converted water tower, of all places, in South London a couple of years ago.

      Love & best wishes
      Sammy B

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