December 25th 1973

“Crismis Day – Got a guitar”
Evil child that I was, I always hunted for – and invariably found – my wrapped Crismis Christmas presents many weeks before Santa’s big day. Of course, as a result of them being wrapped I was not always 100% sure of the gifts inside but the size and shape of [...]

December 2nd/3rd 1973

• “Deck went wrong but somehow managed to fix it”
• “Borrowed Hello – alright / Speaker went up the toss”
There are those that might cynically comment that a broken record deck would be the best way to listen to Status Quo?!
Shame on those people! I wonder what was wrong with the deck and how I [...]

April 26th 1973

“mark came up in morning, borrwd Deep P & St.Quo cassette and returned Tarkus. In afternoon went in – bort p. of trousers and went to thing at C66″
What was this C66?
What was the ‘thing’ there?
Do you often wonder why you’re still reading this?

March 20th 1973

“Taped Piledriver + Sing Brother Sing”
I must have been extraordinarly particular about my recordings as I have talked about taping both of these albums several times before?!

March 17th 1973

1.68 wages. Arm muted all day cos of injection. Couldn’t lift anything heavy. In evng recorded Status quo – tape recorder kept on going rong – still taped it
Hah… the boss fell for my feeble excuse
What I meant to say was WHAT an inconvenience it must’ve been to have a muted arm. Whatever the flip [...]

March 15th 1973

“In games Me + Trev lost to Nig + Pete 11-21, 21-17, 19-21″ / “Borrowed Piledriver off Kristina F – Quite smart, gonna tape it” / “Borrowed hi-fi mag off Nig & lent him mine”
On the same day as it is suggested my table tennis prowess is unlikely to improve, my teenage musical tastes take [...]

Number Ones of 1972 (Part 5)

…[continued from Part 4]
You know when you write about a year in these terms – all the number ones – you wonder whether it gives a realistic representation of the music everyone listened to.
In terms of sheer public popularity I guess it does, but in my own personal world I feel there were many different songs [...]