musical memories

It is amazing how hearing a song can put you instantly into an otherwise forgotten time and place.


It never leaves you either does it? No matter how much time passes, you still get the memory whenever you hear the music.

For me, hearing the B52’s Loveshack ALWAYS takes me back to a bar in Mayport, Florida – a somewhat large American Navy base.

It is the summer of 1990 and I’m a wee 19 year old serving aboard H.M.S. Ark Royal, the now sadly decommissioned British Flagship, and absolutely loving being young and single.

We were docked at the base for a couple of weeks and I’d already returned from a Greyhound bus trip to Orlando with my friends, somehow we had managed to convince some barmen we were 21, and had reaped the rewards for doing so.

It had been a great few days, apart from when I got chaffed in a somewhat embarrassing place while walking around Disney and wound up hobbling about as my friend helped himself to the girl I’d had my eye on.

Now we were back in the port, and out in a bar playing Spoof and Quarters. I was losing badly at the drinking games, but then Loveshack played and the whole place jumped up and danced and sang in one huge International moment of togetherness.

These were the best of days.


This was my time.

It also turned out to be a 150 Kilo sailor loving woman’s time too – but that is a different story, all I’m saying is Budweiser can eventually start making decisions for you if you get through enough pitchers of it.

Anyway – each and every single time I hear that tune, even after 21 years, I still remember that night – well some of it.

So what song instantly transports you somewhere, and where or when does it take you?

Lastly – as an experiment – I’m going to say this…

Oasis – Champagne Supernova.

Where are you now?