1975 Festival Hall West Melbourne. 400 people in a venue meant for so many more. The first in a year of concerts. My second big concert after Slade at the Showgrounds
Absolutely brilliant. Roxy Music.
This was a song off their third album, Possibly it's their greatest song. It comes in two parts. The first fast and ferocious. A night out. The second part falls into a groove. I used to listen to those Roxy Music albums constantly and dream about the glamorous life Bryan Ferry seemed to be having. And here I was living in Nunawading. Australia. I wasn't ever gonna get close. Though we used to have these school dances where I used to get dressed up in shirt and jacket and paisley cravats while the other kids thought putting a shirt on was dressing up. Unfortunately I spent a good deal of my teenage life being short so I didn't have luck with the girls for a long time. And they never played the music I liked. it was all boogie or prog rock. Never Bowie or T. Rex or Roxy Music.
Actually I think I had to wait until 1979 until I went to a place that actually played decent music. I guess that's how I became a DJ. No one else was playing anything good at parties. I just came loaded with mix tapes where songs faded into each other. Then fight over the tape deck. Once I chucked another guys tape out the window. Then I ran for my life.
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