Wow!! I just realised my life can be recalled by listening to one double CD.

Spent a lot of time in the car yesterday, so whilst sat twiddling my gear stick I leaned over to the glove box (WTF is it called that for? When was the last time anyone stored a pair of gloves in there?) and found double CD left there by the boy – The Best of Bowie.

So in it went and my life just whistled by!

Not every song had a special meaning, but lots did. The dates are guessed at. I could have looked them up I suppose but the guessing is part of the fun isn`t it?

LIFE ON MARS @1972
School trip to somewhere and getting slagged off for my poor singing voice and even worse Bowie impression. Song was arranged by Mick Ronson (God bless him and Billy Porter).
JOHN, I`M ONLY DANCING @1973
Missed it at the time but 6 months later I just had to have it. A mate got it for me off a stall on Scunthorpe market of all places – Cheers Cat.
REBEL REBEL @1974
Hot tramp, I love you soooo. And I did, but she didn`t.
YOUNG AMERICANS @ 1975
There ain`t one damn song that can make me….break down and cry. After 5 years at a boys school, the first year at college was ermmm enlightening. So much so that a new mate ( a bit older than me with his own flat!!!) from Liberia lent me his flat for an afternoon and me and J went there and kinda broke his bed. After college I never heard from him for 25 years (I presumed he`d gone back to Liberia and been killed in all the bad stuff there) then one afternoon he called me on my mobile from the USA where he`d been for years; his first words were “Can you afford to pay me back for the bed yet?”. PMSL!!!!!!!!!
FAME @ 1975
Me sat at the front of the bus and my mate A sat towards the back. Me singing one line and him singing the echo. And that was before a drink! Interestingly, co-written by John Lennon – not a lot of people know that.
GOLDEN YEARS @1976
I really was the Thin White Duke miming in front of the jukebox in the Staff of Life.
HEROES @1977
Did I really sing this line by line to F and expect her to be seduced? Little wonder that she cleared off to Germany for the Summer.
BOYS KEEP SWINGING @ 1977
And boy was I a boy! You have times in your life when you couldn`t pull your own plonker, others where anything with two legs just falls at your feet (female and male shhhh).
ASHES TO ASHES @ 1978
F returned with the most amazing shirt for me. The girls loved it, the boys hated it. So much so that one night they did actually rip it off my back and tear it to pieces. Even worse, I couldn`t get a taxi to stop for me without a shirt on.
MODERN LOVE @1983
My mate`s wedding (get me to the church on time). Four of us in a hired Fiesta tearing up the A1 when it started to get noisy and draughty. Looking in the mirror I saw the hatchback slowly rising and the big red hat starting to hover above the parcel shelf. Moments later, it was gone. The girls were not happy!
JUMP THEY SAY @ 1993
Must have been in the middle of my first mid-life crises. JUMP!!
LITTLE WONDER @ 1977.
Just too personal to write about.
WILD IS THE WIND @ 1976 - 2007
Still a great track for loving to (and at 5 mins long it just about suits me – there!! I said it first).