Not a Xmas song but I will always relate this to the snow and the cold. Christmas 79 I was in Blackpool England staying at my brother’s house and this song seemed to be on the radio constantly. It was number one. It was the sound which kind of summed up the weather. Walking the frozen streets it just seemed to be the soundtrack to those few short weeks in Blackpool.
I first came across the Police in Readings bookstore in Carlton when I saw their first album on sale second hand. Still in the mode where I bought anything that looked remotely New Wave I bought it. Before that I didn’t know much about but the album contained a clutch of brilliant singles and what I could only think they made up in the studio. But I do have a soft spot for the Police. I especially like Stewart Copeland’s drumming. And all the space in their songs. And they have a greatest hits CD loaded with top tunes.
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