This came out when I fist really started taking notice of the pop charts and when I first started buying pop papers. I was at the the local newsagent in Blackburn South trying to decide which one to get. My money came from taking back my brother Coke and soft drink bottles in the days when you got a 20 cent refund on each bottle. There were two music papers. Rolling Stone and Go-Set. Rolling Stone was folded into this A4 size quasi magazine. Go-Set was big and bright although in retrospect it had very limited colour. I bought Go-Set. Pop music for me. I quickly turned to the charts. There were my 2 favourite records sitting near the top. Hot Love and Dave Edmund's I Hear You Knocking. Eleanor Rigby by the Zoot was up there too.
At the time my record collection was limited to presents my Mum bought me or sales at Coles where they'd sell off old chart hits for 25 cents. So I had to wait until this came out on a compilation. Which didn't take very long. However while I waited for Bolan Boogie to come along I'd spend all day waiting for it to come on the radio. Being a chart hit it was on regularly. And it was sound that just cut through the airwaves. Simple and exciting.
Glam rock was an exciting development in music at the time. Before that I was really just following the bands and music my older brothers had been into. The Beatles and the Stones. Glam rock was the seventies. It something new and cool. And the older kids didn't care for it. Brilliant.
I replaced my John Lennon poster with a Marc Bolan poster. Then Slade. And then along came Bowie.
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