don't wanna be nobody's fool/i wanna be free/ i wanna be me...
this is my recollection of Toyah lyrics...
i owned a couple of Toyah 7" singles when i was a lass and thought her crazy hairdo quite the thing in 1982... i'm guessing the year cos i was little... my mum took me to see her live at the Liverpool Royal Court and i remember being a bit scared of all the noisy youths rocking it out! haha
it irks me to know that if you were born in the 80s you missed out on all of this and worse are still in your 20s! haha i'm swift becoming the next generation, soon i will stop shopping at topshop and head for marks and spencers! no!!!!!
in 1982 i also enjoyed Adam and the Ants down the local disco 'Prince Charming' - it seems such a shame that anyone should miss out on these fabulous bits of pop culture as they happened... a retro look at anything is always rosetinted you only ever experience something properly if you live in the same moment it was created... i love The Beatles for example but i have no clue how exiting it was to hear that kind of music for the first time - that memory belongs only to the kids of the 1960s...
i'm having trouble writing another song on my guitar, after the flush of first song success i'm seriously struggling with my lyrics... probably concentrating too hard, that always ruins everything! but it only makes me respect the songwriters i love even more...
i think being unemployed is a key element to any good songwriter... that is you need lots of spare time!
best start getting in late to work... haha
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