First job and the song that goes with it! :-)
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Nov 2024
9:00am, 13 Nov 2024
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larkim
Most likely this album discogs.com |
Nov 2024
9:03am, 13 Nov 2024
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GeneHunt59
December 22nd 1973. I remember the date because we were driving along in London and there was a newspaper boarding with headline that Bobby Darin had died. I was 14 and went along with my big brother as he did Saturday central heating jobs. Anyway, 'Street Life' by Roxy Music came on the radio and I remember my brother saying that's a good song. Days later I bought the album it came from and was a fan from then on. Another Bobby Darin connection that I didn't realise at the time. He was number one with 'Dream Lover' on the day I was born and I read the announcement of his death on the day I really started to get into music. |
Nov 2024
9:22am, 13 Nov 2024
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Fitz
Young trainee accountant in a local firm in Essex. The song is from a few years earlier but is the closing track on one of my all time favourite albums. When the Night Comes, by Boomtown Rats from the album The Fine Art of Surfacing. One of Geldof's great narrative songs, it tells the story of Frank whose dead-end job is spiced up by an encounter with a colleague from Marketing. Even at my tender age, the lyric resonated strongly with me. One boring afternoon I wrote out the entire lyric, from memory, on the back of an analysis pad. I could probably still do it today. |
Nov 2024
9:25am, 13 Nov 2024
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Weath
August 1991 - August 1992. Worked in the technical department of Tunstead Quarry, Buxton, Derbys during my industrial placement from Uni. Unfortunately, a sizeable majority if that coincided with Bryan Adam warbling (Everything I Do) I Do It for You. Pretty much heard it everyday either around the site or on my commute 😒. |
Nov 2024
9:27am, 13 Nov 2024
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Ally-C
Community programme; garden labouring, not to be confused with community service, for the long term unemployed. |
Nov 2024
9:31am, 13 Nov 2024
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Derby Tup
Some great tunes (and the odd rubbish one!) Another for me: at a trade fair in China representing a company involved with denim c 2011. They had a three minute video showing the company site accompanied by Bryan Adams - Run to you. It was playing all day for three or four days |
Nov 2024
9:37am, 13 Nov 2024
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Mark J 🇳🇿
First Saturday job working at the local Spar when I was about 12 back in 1979. Walking on the moon by Police. I recall it will because it was so very different to everything else at that time. By then is been into discovering my own taste in music for a couple of years already. Buying stuff as diverse as Space by Magic Fly and Nuclear Device by The Strangers and Abba's Arrival was the first album of bought off my own as I recall. |
Nov 2024
9:40am, 13 Nov 2024
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Dave A
m.youtube.com Summer 1996. Had a job packing frozen meals into boxes between school and college. Radio 1 was on constantly. |
Nov 2024
9:49am, 13 Nov 2024
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HellsBells
1980 I was 15 and a Saturday girl in a greengrocers on Beeston High Street. Crazy Little Thing Called Love was everywhere
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Nov 2024
9:53am, 13 Nov 2024
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