All That Glitters / August 24 2008
As I was passing the recycling bins in the car park of the Co-op - that comically provincial supermarket full of half-price frozen fagots-in-gravy and Aunt Bessie’s Traditional Yorkshire Puddings - I spotted Reg, who was emptying bags of what looked like CDs into one of them. ‘Getting rid of all the crap,’ he commented.
‘I did something similar a few months ago,’ I told him. ‘Feels good, doesn’t it.’
An old woman in a flowery dress and badly applied makeup wandered over. She smelled of lavender and gin, as do all old women. ‘I hope you’re throwing away your Gary Glitter LPs,’ she warned us, ‘because my nephew said –’
‘Never had any.’ Reg quickly jumped in before she could bore us to death with her nephew’s views on the glam-rock paedophile.
I’m ashamed to say that, although like Reg I never actually owned any Gary Glitter albums, I do have an old 45 rpm single somewhere of Leader of the Gang. And even more embarrassing is the fact that Enormous used to cover that very song in our live set a few years ago. We used to do it as an encore and it always went down a storm. Funny old world.
Filed under English Village Life / Enormous / Music / Pop Stars / Recycling / Reg / Streamlining
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2 comments on “All That Glitters”
Nelson Galaxy / August 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Are you resurrecting Leader of the Gang for your forthcoming November concert? It’ll be a brave move.
Napoleon Fantastic / August 26th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
No way.
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