The first song I remember hearing
Magic Moments by Perry Como around the house when it came on the radio. It’s got a very jaunty, happy-go-lucky sound with a whistle and a bassoon part. How many songs have got that?
The first single I bought
Combine Harvester by the Wurzels, from John Menzies in Keynsham. I played it on the Dansette in the bedroom, one of those record players that were completely self-contained with a lid, and you could stack up the singles to play on top of each other.
The song I inexplicably know every lyric to
Silver (Tidal Wave) by Echo & the Bunnymen came out when I was 19, when the whole world seemed a place of opportunity. The lyrics have a sense of breaking free of the joy of existence that would have burned into my mind when I was 19, leaving the West Country and heading out into the world.
