113. Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles 1979

 

Christmas 1980  I was staying at my brother's house in Lytham St. Annes just outside of Blackpool. There was lot of pop songs playing in the house. the British are very tuned in to the hit parade. Earlier in 70s I remember staying at my Auntie Sheila's and every Sunday night the whole family would sit around the radio listening to the weekly chart.
Anyway this was a song that takes me back to that Christmas spent at David and Brenda's house with my nieces Sharon and Sarah. Just kids then but grown up now Sarah told me this year that this song always reminds her of that time too. It was a lovely time with snow outside and plenty of Xmas celebrations. Relatives popping in for a drink. meeting a bunch of fellow students from Burwood Teachers College who crashed at David's.
Leonie and I hired a car to drive to Edinburgh. Brenda had one of the new electric stove tops with a glass top. One of us forgot to turn it off when we left in the morning. Yikes!
Later this song became a regular on the set list at Barbarella's Beehive and The Lizard Lounge. A very Eighties song that managed to keep it's own special coolness. Maybe because it's a bloody good song.