I was eight years old when my mum bought me this on seven-inch and it was the first pop single I owned. There wasn’t a lot of pop music in the house – my father preferred classical. He was an art school lecturer with something of the Gregory Peck about him. Then he tried to be trendy with it, and bought Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when it came out. He bought flares too, and a lime green Crimplene safari suit. The 60s happened to my dad right in front of me. I wasn’t impressed at all. This single also has a good B-side, “Poor Cow”, which I still really like.
[via Edwyn Collins]
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