I was playing tennis one Saturday. My team was in the church league or whatever it was called. we were playing in Croydon. Of course in a team you get breaks and during the break I would lean up against the weatherboards on the tennis rooms and listen to the transistor radio. !973. And this song came on. It was just so off the wall, The congas and bass seemed to be the main instruments or was it a synth. There were huge gaps in the music. It was like an alien singing about James Dean.
I had to wait ages to hear it again. Sitting at home on a Saturday night waiting to hear this song. Hoping it would come on before you went to the drive-in or a friends place.
I liked a few of David Essex' songs. But apart from this song he was never cool. girls had a soft spot for him though. I'd often find a David Essex album lurking in the album collection of girls I went out with around that time. And he was great in "That'll Be The Day" and "Stardust"
Nothing he released after this sounded anything like this song. It really is a one off.
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