At a youth camp in 1975, I performed two songs. Well, I mimed to two songs. A kinda fake band called Flashcoe. Why play the song ourselves when the record sounds so much better? The first was “All The Young Dudes” The other song we mimed to was "I Know I’m Losing You" by Rod Stewart off his Every Picture Tells a Story album. A great album full of top songs this just being one of them but in a way, it was my introduction to soul music. Deep cuts if you could call it that.
I like bands doing covers because it can lead you to some interesting places you might have yet to go to. Of course, I knew the big soul hits but this was a cover of a song I’d never heard. I followed it up and came home with a double album of soul. After that, I went through a period of listening to nothing else. Then at the end of Year 12, I went with my Mum and sister back to Blackpool on a holiday.
While I was there I went clubbing with my cousin and one of those places was the Blackpool Mecca. So I got my introduction to Northern Soul watching guys throw talcum powder on the floor and do high kicks or swivel in circles. Amazing stuff! Then there were the records they played which were familiar and different, a cross between soul and Motown featuring artists I’d never heard of.
For a while there Rod was the coolest pop star out there. Then he made an Atlantic Crossing, met Britt and that was that. However, I saw him 83 and it was one of the best concerts I’d ever been to.
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