Another timeslip moment, dear reader, and one very close to my heart.
This time thirty years ago, I was on a little weekend trip to Bath (Georgian idyll) with a female friend. Having drunk all afternoon (some things never change), we retired for a "siesta" before the evening jollities (separate rooms, needless to say). I had, however, spotted earlier that day at the bus station kiosk a certain type of magazine that had intrigued little closeted moi...
And so it came to pass that I sneaked out of that hotel and purchased my very first gay
The music playing - or rather, being sung very loudly by a raucous group of young ladies passing the hotel window - on that auspicious occasion?
George Michael's Careless Whisper (the Number 1 hit in the charts this week in 1984)...
Ah, memories.
'Vulcan' was always my fave mag, much better than 'Him'. That is for those who remember.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the vid.
Before that, it was the underpants pages in the Littlewoods catalogue.... Jx
DeleteNah, 'Vulvan' had the pretty ones, I preferred the bulkier guys in Zipper!
DeleteEach to their own, sweetie!
DeleteAnd oh, dear, "Vulvan" conjures up something altogether less to our tastes... Jx
What an enjoyable story (although I don't think I have ever seen an actual copy of that magazine).
ReplyDeleteI can't believe it's been 30 years since "Careless Whisper" - still one of my favorite George Michael songs. To think he was only 16 when he wrote it...
Flatterer... Georgios is only two months older than me. Sixteen? I don't think so! Jx
DeleteWell, actually, the song was written a few years before Wham took of - and George was 16 in 1979. Wham made it in 1982/1983 and according to different reports "Careless Whisper" was written in either 1979 or 1980, although it wasn't released until 1984 on their second album.
ReplyDeleteA little bit of Tuesday trivia ;)
On Wikipedia it says: "Unlike all the other Wham! singles (except "Wham Rap!" and "Club Tropicana"), it was co-written by Andrew Ridgeley, the other member of the duo. The two had written it together as unknowns three years earlier, when Michael was working as a cinema usher in Watford." So that dates it to 1981... Jx
DeleteOK, 18 it is then (if Wikipedia is to be trusted) :)
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