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7 Feb is a Monday. What is it with Geldof and Mondays!
I look forward to trudging through the snow if the weather is anything like last year to buy the cd in the old fashioned way. You've got to make the effort rather than just pressing a few buttons to download- in years to come you'll remember going to the shop in the twilight and your sense on anticipation and the indifferent shop assistant who could be selling you baked beans in HMV.
I always remember my Boomtown Rats and Geldof purchasing in the past- the act of going to a record shop and all the little things associated with this. Joseph O Connor the writer explains this very well in one of his articles on the Rats and its the same for me. Maybe I'll slip in the February ice storm!
Very nice article. But let us not forget the song might have been even worse if it was not for Midge's intervention. He should share some of the blame, but also credit for making it less twee...
Midge talks about it in his autobiography, says he thought it sounded like Z Cars. Everyone under 50 will be saying What??? Which is everybody except me I think.