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I keep feeling that I should be posting more. So I've come up with a plan, that I am almost certain to fail to stick to. I turned forty this year. And there's forty days left of 2015. One day - one post - for every year. Can I do it? Almost certainly not. Between being busy, forgetting, and being characteristically rubbish, it's almost sure to crash and burn long before the forty days are up. But plans! Plans are good! So, then. 1975.
Technically, 1975 should be difficult, because I don't remember it at all. But I'm lucky. I was born the same year as two of my favourite albums - quite by chance, two of the most famous, and critically acclaimed, albums in rock history. Queen's A Night At The Opera gave the world Bohemian Rhapsody, one of the most famous songs in British music. It also spawned fan favourite (and live classic) I'm In Love With My Car; John Deacon's smash hit You're My Best Friend; and the quite delightful '39, the best song about Einstein's theory of relativity that's ever been written. Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run gave us the title track, obviously, as well fan favourite Thunder Road and the superb Jungleland. Arguably more importantly (shut up) it also gave us Max Weinberg. Hey, truly great songs may be rare, but there's only one Max Weinberg. And I'd have had a whole lot less fun without him.
I'm In Love With My Car (London, 26th December 1979):
'39 (ditto):
Thunder Road (Los Angeles, 2nd October 1985):
Jungleland (London, 18th November 1975):
I was born in a good year for music.
Tomorrow, 1976! Or we could take bets on whether or not I'll make it even that far. :)
Technically, 1975 should be difficult, because I don't remember it at all. But I'm lucky. I was born the same year as two of my favourite albums - quite by chance, two of the most famous, and critically acclaimed, albums in rock history. Queen's A Night At The Opera gave the world Bohemian Rhapsody, one of the most famous songs in British music. It also spawned fan favourite (and live classic) I'm In Love With My Car; John Deacon's smash hit You're My Best Friend; and the quite delightful '39, the best song about Einstein's theory of relativity that's ever been written. Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run gave us the title track, obviously, as well fan favourite Thunder Road and the superb Jungleland. Arguably more importantly (shut up) it also gave us Max Weinberg. Hey, truly great songs may be rare, but there's only one Max Weinberg. And I'd have had a whole lot less fun without him.
I'm In Love With My Car (London, 26th December 1979):
'39 (ditto):
Thunder Road (Los Angeles, 2nd October 1985):
Jungleland (London, 18th November 1975):
I was born in a good year for music.
Tomorrow, 1976! Or we could take bets on whether or not I'll make it even that far. :)
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