Love this, Justin, takes me right back to where--if I didn't look too closely in a mirror--I believed I could achieve glamour myself and move like Mads if I practised hard enough. And the 'play-rec' button anxiety was real, along with getting everyone to shut the f*ck up on a Sunday when I was recording my faves from the radio. Now, whenever I hear a blast from the past which I'd taped in those heady days, I still automatically know what 'comes' next, whether it was a DJ making a dumb remark and cutting off a perfectly good end, or the next track... funny how these recordings stick in the mind.
Love this, Justin, takes me right back to where--if I didn't look too closely in a mirror--I believed I could achieve glamour myself and move like Mads if I practised hard enough. And the 'play-rec' button anxiety was real, along with getting everyone to shut the f*ck up on a Sunday when I was recording my faves from the radio. Now, whenever I hear a blast from the past which I'd taped in those heady days, I still automatically know what 'comes' next, whether it was a DJ making a dumb remark and cutting off a perfectly good end, or the next track... funny how these recordings stick in the mind.
Haha today’s generation will (thankfully) never know the agony of trying to tape the Top 40. That’s the progress we fought for.
For what it's worth, Madonna pushed to get Paris is Burning a distributor.
Oh that's really interesting, thank you!