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A story about when I grow up "I want to be a singer like Peggy Lee". Which I think demonstrates a time when aside from watching Top of the Pops, and maybe listening to the top 40 on the radio, the only exposure to music you ever got was stuff your parents played. If they didn't listen to current music, neither did you.>
I went on a school trip in year 6 and my dad let me borrow his Walkman to listen to on the coach. I chose "Wurlitzer Gold" a fine collection of "modern hits" played on a Wurlitzer Organ.
Other possible choices were Jean MJ Equinox, Dolly Parton, Tubular Bells or Def Leppard.
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@Shoosh
I was showing my niece and nephew some of the school archive my mum kept.
School reports - from the days when teachers wrote what they really thought, not pussy-foot around. One teacher, a huge bully, who once tore up my chemistry homework in front of the whole sixth-form because he thought I'd cheated when I got almost full marks (I hadn't) wrote
Chemistry - "Conceptually beyond her".
A story about when I grow up "I want to be a singer like Peggy Lee". Which I think demonstrates a time when aside from watching Top of the Pops, and maybe listening to the top 40 on the radio, the only exposure to music you ever got was stuff your parents played. If they didn't listen to current music, neither did you.
But the biggest thing was reading a something that I wrote at the age of 6, which was a write-up of my weekend, where I had shut my finger in the door and my mum had "force-fed me wine" (explains an awful lot) and a different day when I ran up the road in my nightdress and dressing gown only to be "smacked hard" when I came home.
I'm guessing if any teacher read that now, Social Services would be immediately sent to intervene and I'd be taken into care.