Started thinking back about that after reading your post, and some of the highlights of that year - and realised it was in fact 1982... Moving Pictures were top of the charts with "What about me"... We spent half our spare non-pinball time going to see bands, and the other half playing in our own band... I remember the start of a Moving Pictures concert, but it was so hot and so crowded that we were buying two jugs of beer each when we made it to the bar - I flaked it on the dance floor but it was so crowded I didn't fall over! I come to being walked out by a girl named Josephine from school ... the summers each side of that year seemed to go on forever... The highlights (Donna
) and the lows (Donna
) ... gosh, I found some photos only yesterday cleaning up for the move (two of Donna - both taken at such a distance that I had to fill in some parts with memories...) and then ten minutes later my old band music book, written on the back in a heart "Hello Sweetie, Love Donna". I'd forgotten that year except for the Time Warp bit, but now I recall it was perhaps the most amazing year of my life in a lot of ways. Geez - the only fight that year to take place was between me and a fellow who is still a buddy! Right in the middle of the cafeteria.. You can probably guess the girl at the center of that if you've read any of the above... Organising a party in the middle-Winter empty coastal caravan park after we discovered they'd left the power on - by the end of the night there were about 200 people there, oh and leaving with a girl who had the exact same name as a current pop-charting blonde (and just as pretty, can't work that one out). What a year - no wonder Time Warp had a special meaning to me when I started searching for one, I'd just forgotten why, but turns out it was one part of a special year...
Nino - Post submitted as AP Thread Hijack of the Year.
(Sorry Dean, I don't usually drink on weeknights)
