Quote: PopTart "I just wrote a really long reply and then clicked on a pop up which lost my page. It was a masterpiece of writing that will be lost forever.
I can sum it up though by saying I was just not that kid. I was born in 68 so quite young as they built their rep through the 70s. I wanted to be John Travolta then rather the angry young man (the irony being that JT was an angry young man in his own right in SNF). I was the 'nice' kid not the rebellious kid.
In the 80s the revolution for me was all about the Miners Strike and Mandela and Live Aid. The music of change was much more mainstream in that time and although I was very engaged, I wasn't suffering from any of the issues at that time. I come from a mining background but my parents weren't in that industry at all, so I felt strongly about it but I wasn't affected by it.
I think music at that time was my escape rather than my voice of rebellion and the angry young man.
Looking back now, I can judge the music on it's merits so music I might have missed first time round like the Clash are at the top of my list now.
I have to say a good friend of mine who sadly passed away before his time used to do an excellent Weller on stage. He was the most unlikely guy to even sing along in a crowd but when pushed up front in the rugby club with his guitar to some strange maybe even patronising looks, he did 'Down At the Tube station' as well as I have ever heard it with all the relative passion and skill of Weller. People never looked at him the same. It's a great memory, so the Jam have a special place for me, even though I wasn't there at the beginning.'"
99 red balloons was a No1 during the strike
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