97. I Hear You Knocking by Dave Edmunds 1971

February 1971. I was a regular buyer of Go-Set the Australian pop magazine. I loved the charts and began making my own charts at home. This song might have only reached number 4 in Australia but it was number one on my charts for ages. It was another one of those unique sounds that seem to have been plucked from space. Later I was to find out he played all the instruments himself. But it was all this reverence to the fifties shared by Roxy Music et al. At the time I couldn't stand fifties music.

I would buy my Go-Set weekly at the Houston Newsagency which was just across Middlesbrough Road from Laburnam South where I lived. I worked 3 shops up at the chemist delivering medicine to old people. Sometimes I took them nappies. Piled up on the back of my back. One day a rain came down and washed the nappies away.
The newsagent also sold Rolling Stone but it looked odd and it was folded up. I preferred Go-Set. Sometimes it had posters. So I began decorating my half of the room.