Bruv wrote today's lyric in his present to Number One Daughter on her 21st birthday - a beautiful photo album, which she's already filled.
"Bookends" was the first vinyl album (LP) I ever bought. I was 14 and working in a factory during the school holidays. I got £4 17s and 6d (work it out, you young whippersnappers!) for being a rear chassis panel driver - building piano-sized calculators for Texas Instruments.
Albums were then (if I recall correctly) 17s and 6d, so it took a big slice out of the weekly wage. I bought it 'blind' on the recommendation of a fellow student worker (is that an oxymoron?) but didn't regret it.
Listening to it today, it still brings a lump to the throat..
# posted by Mr.D. @ 8:26 AM
Drinking and Driving (but clearly not simultaneously)
