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Feeling Surprised
Hearing Groovy Kind of Love
Mindbenders/10cc
My wife taking the pee.
Just like France is wasted on the French, youth is wasted on the young, of course. Looking back on my teens from my fifties is never comfortable. Still, as the web's leading name dropper, I will once more suffer the discomfort for your entertainment.
Used to be skinny (see earlier pix), rode a cool red Triumph scooter, wrote a teen column and used to have to call at Taskers Girls School in Haverfordwest every Thursday for their news. Eventually, my editor stopped me doing it because I was disrupting the girl's lessons (when I honestly denied doing any such thing deliberately, he called me naive.)
On one of my calls, Julia - one of the senior girls - blocked my path to the head's office. She asked me whether I'd be her partner to the forthcoming County Ball. I'd just learned a "Look" ... holding a gaze just a fraction of a second longer than necessary, while smiling wistfully ... so I gave it a go. Seemed to work. (Just tried it on my wife ... she fell over laughing. What a difference 40 years make!)
This was my first black tie do. Borrowed a suit from one of Julia's relatives. Shirt collar so tight I turned purple, trousers so baggy I had one hand holding them up all evening. Couldn't dance, couldn't talk. Disasterous. Image completely blown. Reputation at Taskers completely undermined.
In an attempt to rescue the situation, I invited Julia to a Mindbenders gig I was covering. They had just had the "Groovy Kind of Love" hit. Determined to show off, I invited her backstage to join me as I interviewed the band. Lead singer Eric Stewart, later of 10cc, took little notice of my questions ... instead, he was intent on picking up Julia. No contest. I left alone.
Youth. Wasted on the young.
Julia is now in HER mid-fifties. I wonder whether she remembers the Look.
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