April 9th 1973

“Went to school still feeling sick” / “Trev selling Elegy-Nice. I like the record but am not going to buy”
Man… did I still have the squits???
This is 4 days now. Surely I didn’t spend 4 days regularly dropping increasingly-skinny kids off at the pool?
I know why I didn’t buy Trev’s Elegy by The Nice. As [...]

March 5th 1973

“Took back Trev’s records” / “In evening went up Nigs – battling tops wiv drawing pins – borrowed 2001 Ai Space Oddesy off of him – not bad” / “Borrowed drawing stuff off of Bernie – lent Trev my Popular Hi-Fi Mag”
Stanley Kubrick’s immense “2001 – A Space Odyssey” (erm, not Oddesy) movie was released in [...]

January 28th 1973

“Dave came up in the morning and borrowed Pictures and lent me Roxy Music”
I was almost dreading the debut mention of Roxy Music in this blog.
Why? Because it is extremely difficult to explain the impact that the band – and their style – had on this particular teenager. It’s also difficult to explain to [...]

December 16th 1972

“Went down Trevs + borrowed D.Purple, Man, Groundhogs, The Nice”
I have not mentioned which specific albums I borrowed from Trev, but I have more than an inkling it was the following …erm… ‘gems’….
Deep Purple – The Book of Taliesyn
If I even recorded this album, I doubt very much I kept it. No Ian Gillan on [...]

July 25th 1972

“nothing much in the morn. in afternoon went swimming and went to mick’s house + bor. records. Taped America + Slade 1″ / “new set batts > 59 days” / Vicarage 7.30 for rounders match. we won” (6m)
The diary entries are at least getting longer and a bit more informative this school holiday aren’t they?
There’s [...]

July 21st 1972

“Trev came up. He brought up N.E.T.E. + Elegy. In afternoon we played cricket + F.ball and got told off by Grumpy”
I got told off by myself? Oh…. got it, this was not 2008, but 1972!
I really was an energetic little toad wasn’t it? Cricket and football all in the space of one day? I’d be [...]