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He always makes things seem so easy. I do wonder if he truly knows and understands how talented he is. I like Alan Parsons a lot, but Mike Oldfield will always be my top choice, even when I was in my youth, I thought Oldfield was one of a kind.
Memories there, Cat. I remember the priest who my Father supplied cheap wine to had a Tubular Bells tape in the car; he played it full blast along with Truck.
Downing Street Cat wrote: Many moons ago my lasting memory is going to Dartmoor with an ex and Tubular Bells playing through my Walkman. Perfect accompaniment.
I was exposed to Prog rock, jazzy rock and Americana from an early age. The punk, Oi scene was just noise to me, and in the early 1980s, when New Wave came out, some of it was good, but it was full of smouldering poncy posers.
In the 1970s, kids at my school at BCR, Mud, ABBA, KISS, Diana Ross, Wings, Korgis, and Stevie Wonder in their collections. One girl was obsessed with Tee Set.
I had the likes of Mike Oldfield, Genesis, Johnny Paycheck, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Waylon Jennings, Ted Nugent, Moody Blues, Camel, Soft Machine, Johnny Cash, Kayak and Gram Parsons. I was never ashamed to buy the MFP reissues either, especially their Steely Dan releases. Looking back, many were badly mixed, but we knew no different.
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