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first
record remembered
COSEY: Perry Como - Catch A Falling Star. My mother used to
play it and sing along to it. Later when I was about 5 years
old my friend and I did a public performance of it complete
with dance routine to our gang of
friends.
CHRIS: The Laughing Policeman. This record haunted me continually
through my childhood in the 1950s. Funny in a weirdly fascinating
way (to kids anyway) but with my adult ears it sounds a bit
creepy now.
a song that reminds you of school
COSEY: The Monkees - I’m A Believer. Whenever I hear
this I can picture myself with my school friends laughing
and getting up to all kinds of things. My school days were
wonderfully happy.
CHRIS: Procul Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale. This track always
brings back fond memories of school trips, discos and 'fun'
behind the bike sheds.
a record you fell in love to
COSEY: Love - And More Again. My very first love in 1969.
CHRIS: ABBA - Dancing Queen. One of my all time favourite
ABBA tracks. This was playing everywhere when I fell in love
with Cosey.
your ultimate heartbreak song
COSEY: I don't have one in particular. When your heart is
broken all songs seem to represent what you have lost.
CHRIS: Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water.
I played this album a lot (not a good idea) when my first
serious relationship broke up. As a result I find it a bit
depressing to listen to nowadays.
a record that evokes greatest summer
of your life
COSEY: ABBA - Dancing Queen.The year Chris and I became lovers.
It was the hottest summer on record and whenever I hear this
song a smile breaks across my face, my stomach flutters and
I'm right back there in the same emotional state. I am unbelievably
happy.
CHRIS: ABBA - Dancing Queen (for the same reason as Cosey).
Also „Kites“ by Simon Dupree & The Big Sound.
The summer I left school this was on the radio such a lot
and brings back some very happy memories.
best Kraftwerk record
COSEY:The Robots
CHRIS: Radioactivity
A song you you wish you had composed
yourself
COSEY: Future Bible Heroes - Losing Your Affection. It has
the most beautiful melody and lyrics and it's in my key! It
just resonates and touches all the right places inside me.
CHRIS: Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The
Sun. Still a classic and one of my all time favourite Floyd
tracks. And I’d be a millionaire from all those royalties
if I’d written it.
a song guaranteed to make you feel
depressed
COSEY: ANY Country and Western music. I hate it, I call it
'slit your wrists music'.
CHRIS: ANY rap music.
the song played at your funeral
COSEY: Chris & Cosey - October Love Song. The lyrics are
about the unfolding of our love affair and the overwhelming
feelings we had for one another.
CHRIS: John Barry - Walkabout. JB at his most melodic and
melancholy, I never tire of hearing this. |