Listening to my IPod on shuffle when this came on and it transported me back to 1972 and when I first got this album. Picked it up in Blackburn at the Newsagents near the station. $5:99. Carefully put it in my schoolbag and rode carefully home. RCA records tended to be very thin in those days. I bought it because I loved the Starman single. It was just too good. So I was nervous as I put the needle in the groove of my Mum's record player and started listening to Ziggy Stardust. Instantly I was in another place with 5 Years seemingly set out a scenario where all that was to come would happen. It definitely came across as a concept album. I would listen to it start to finish in order. When I took the album to friend's places I would sit my mates down and force them to listen to Five Years. Check out the words. The sounds. The 12 string guitar. That drum beat. Willing them to follow Bowie on this trip too.
We didn't have cars. We had big brothers and parents to drive us round. Most Saturday nights we'd go to someones place and just listen to records. Boys and girls trying to impress others with their musical tastes. Maybe there would only be 8 of us. We were seventeen. They were some of the best parties I ever went to. It was all about the records.
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