A Groovy Kind of Love
Posted in Popular Song, Rock on Jan 13th, 2009 No Comments »
“Extraordinary how potent cheap music is”.
This is Noel Coward’s celebrated remark about popular music. It’s true too. An instant bridge with others, in our nostalgia for lost youth, lost love, for the good old days.
Here’s mine, with no apology. It was 1965. I was 19, she was too. I was going to love her forever - now I can hardly recall her face.
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders.
