When I was back in England 1974, for the first time after emigrating to Australia back in 1965, I stayed at my Aunt Sheila's house. On Little Murders "We Should Be Home By Now" you can see the place where I stayed for that time..3 months.. on the back cover. I was eighteen and my Mum was staying with my brother so I was having a great time hanging out with my cousin Neil. We did go out a lot and I would sleep in until about 11am each morning. We'd spend the night at Blackpool Mecca watching the great Northern soul dancers. Or down the Workingmen's club drinking pints which almost killed me.
Soon after I woke up in the morning Neil would come home from work for lunch. Aunt Sheila would have something in the oven ready for him. Cheese and Onion pie or similar. We'd eat together and he would play a record. He seemed to have only 2 records, Band On The Run and Simon and Garfunkel. Although I soon got sick of hearing them there was one song I never seemed to tire of. The Only Living Boy In New York was such a great song. I'd wait for the harmonies. To die for. Apparently they recorded them eight times in an echo chamber with the door closed.
In the 90s Everything But The Girl did an excellent version. I'd listen to that version a lot too.
Hop to 25 years after those lunchtime listening sessions and little Murders are recording a brand new record and we have Mick Barclay and Kate Stalker trying to reproduce those harmonies on songs from First Light and the aforementioned "We Should Be Home" album.
I like the Bridge Over Troubled Water album except I could never listen to the title track. Far too sentimental. ..nor el condo pasa or whatever the Peruvian song was called. But this song..brilliant!
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