In 1971 the biggest thing in my life musically was John Lennon. A big Beatles fan but right about then John Lennon was just it. I was buying all his records. Had his poster on the wall and had my John Lennon scrapbooks. Paul McCartney I didn't rate until much later. At the time I was buying NME religiously so I was very excited when i saw that John had a big hit in the UK with Happy Xmas. And I was waiting to hear the song on the radio. But it never happened. I had to wait another year before the record was released in Australia. By that time he had released some rubbish and effectively been taken over in my heart by Glam rock. Firstly T.Rex and then Bowie and Slade.
Being an English music mag reader it was incredibly frustrating to read about big hits over there and never get to hear them. Yet all the American hits you could hear on Casey Case's American Top 40. I once wrote to one of the radio stations demanding an UK Top 40 and had friends sign the letter. I remembered the songs and in some cases it took me many years to track them down. some of course were rubbish but others were totally brilliant. Why were they never pushed here?
I loved the John Lennon Xmas song. Even if I did get it late. I was sitting outside the post office in Box Hill when it came on the radio. sounded a bit out of place with the summer sunshine beating down on me. But still magic.
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