"Boys may come and boys may go,
And that’s all right you see.
Experience has made me rich,
And now they’re after me."
They were
hearing only bad news from Radio Africa. While the pop masses could only tune
in to Radio Ga Ga, Radio Goo Goo and Radio Blah Blah. But on Frimley Park
Hospital Radio in the mid-Eighties, they were listening to my homemade
17-minute Madonna megamix.
Disc Jockey
was one of my dream jobs growing up. (The others included designing T-shirts
with giant slogans on and filming the further adventures of Princess Leia.) My
school friend Mike beat me to it on the DJ front, landing a job on local hospital radio. Mike was one of
those guys that looked five years older than anyone else in our year. And he
was obssessed with Fern Britton (who presented the regional news at the time).
Mike invited
me down to the hospital one Sunday afternoon to watch him at work. Which I translated
as ‘co-present’. So I came loaded with TDK C90 tapes full of endless remixes
that I’d made. Blame Jive Bunny. Throw a few songs together and get to number
one. You just needed a good memory for drum breaks and a fast finger on the
pause button. Yep, Jive Bunny and I were leading today’s mash-up generation.
Somehow I convinced
Mike to play my Madonna megamix towards the end of the show. Kinda forgetting to
mention that all my mixes were ridiculously long. If you liked Madonna, that
was a great afternoon to be in hospital. It got cut off about two thirds of the
way through though, as we risked crashing in to the next show. And on future visits,
it was thought best that I leave the remixes at home.
Mike went on
to his dream job the next year: providing Tannoy announcements at the local football club. And I’m still working on that Princess Leia screenplay.
Spotify linky:
Call this a remix 'Jellybean'? Only 6 minutes long!
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