1979

I was really getting into pop music now. Me and my friend Toby used to discuss the Radio 1 Top 40 rundown in woodwork/metalwork whilst filing down bits of wood/metal until they were next to nothing and completely useless.




Parallel Lines was one of the albums of the year for me. I got a record player of my own, and could start to buy LPs with the words and everything! Generally, this was a year of change.

In May the family went camping in Brittany. I started to get spots (lots and lots) and hairy armpits. This is me and Iain, camping in Brittany before the hell started:






There was a lot of hype during the summer about a singer who wrote her own songs being signed to Elton John's label. I immediately wrote Judie Tzuke off as a pale Kate Bush imitation and I was expecting the cover of her new album Welcome to the Cruise to feature a girl in a sailor's hat with big tits and a clip board standing on the gangway of a luxury liner. However, her single Stay with me till dawn became one of the hits of the summer (and sadly her only hit), I bought the album and she's been one of my favourite singers since. She is hugely under-rated. Get hold of one (or more) of her albums and enjoy!