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HonoraryGreek

HonoraryGreek
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Lived in Rhodes, Greece since 2005. Current playlist: Joe Bonamassa, Joe Bonamassa, oh, and Joe Bonamassa!! Faith or credulity? You decide.

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MARCH 15, 2010 12:25PM

Those Defining Moments

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You know those little moments in your past when a particular piece of music defined that time. Those pieces of music that, should you hear them today, elicit in your senses those smells, scenes and people that surrounded you as you listened?

Here are some of mine.

Pretty Flamingo - Manfred Mann.

When I stood outside the "fish and Chip" shop in Bath, the city of my birth, with my girlfriend of the time, Julie Tucker.

The Weaver's Answer - Family

Driving to London with my dad in his Triumph Spitfire. It came on the radio and I told my dad to listen to the words, then tell me rock music was frivolous!

Meddle - The entire Album by Pink Floyd.

In 1971 I was working for a Bank and was sent to Birmingham (UK) for a month-long course. While there I bought the album and my friend Tim Sankey and I met some guys who were at Birmingham University, who not only invited to play snooker at the campus, but they got hold of the key to the "Stereo" room so we could all listen to the album in the dark, with the starlight coming in through the tall windows of the old University building.

Without You - Harry Nilsson

 When I realised that I was going to spend the remainder of my life with the girl who's still by my side. I bought her the 45 and we played it late at night while her mother slept upstairs.

 

I'm gonna do some more of these!!

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These are great moments, Greek! And my English friends have taught me how important Fish & Chips really are!!
Oh, how wonderful those memories are. The stereo room, a special treat. A 45 to mark the beginning of a lifetime. Yes, they were more than albums and 45's, they are truly records of our lives. The songs make the memories feel like the present. Thank you.