In 1975 30 years after this song was recorded I started to go to see international acts regularly at Festival hall in West Melbourne. Before then I'd only been to see one overseas act and that was the Slade, Status Quo, Lindisfarne concert at The Showgrounds. In 1975 me and my mates started to go to see the big bands though. The first gig was Roxy Music and it will always be my favourite gig ever. Then at the same venue we saw Leo Sayer, who was huge at the time, Sweet, Queen, Lou Reed and a few others I can't remember off the top of my head. I did turn down the ticket to Jethro Tull. Couldn't stand them.
Two of the main things I remember about those gigs was the support act always seemed to be Split Enz. before they got big. The other was every gig seemed to have this song, Rum and Coca cola, playing over the PA before and after the show. We traipse out of Festival Hall with with the Andrew Sisters singing their jaunty song about prostitution in Trinidad. Of course we were nowhere near drunk. There wasn't a bar there in those days. We had to get a pass out and have drinks in the car.
The early seventies saw a lot of this retro music in vogue. Can't say I was too interested. But I liked this song. I think it was the bass sound coming out of the huge PA at Festival Hall. Or maybe it was the cheap alchohol we drank in the car.
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