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| The tapes were second-hand when I bought them in '81. (Or 'pre-played' as they'd be described nowadays) |
It was 1981 and I was living down in Southsea. One day, me and a friend decided to take a leisurely stroll into Fratton, and while we were in a record store, I purchased two JAMES BOND 007 soundtrack cassettes - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE and DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. Curiously, the tracks on the latter tape were not in the same order as listed on the index card, but I put it down to an error and learned to live with it.
11 and a half years later (which was a significant proportion of my life back then), in '93, HMV opened a record shop in my local shopping centre, and I bought two CDs, the same soundtracks mentioned in the previous paragraph. Back home later that night, I covered the openings on the top of the DAF tape, and recorded the tracks in the correct listed order from the CD. It's strange just what a sense of accomplishment I felt doing this, as if I were putting right some great injustice of many years standing.
It may have taken me nearly a third of my life to get to hear the tracks on that tape in the right running order, but it was worth it. Although I didn't really need to play the tape because I had the CD, I made a point of doing so anyway, just so my effort wasn't wasted. Still got those two tapes, and whenever I look at them, I'm back in that record shop in Fratton (JACK's, I think it was called) and I'm a young man in my early 20s again.
If only it could always be so.
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ReplyDeleteI don't need any help, Baab. The maid and the butler take care of everything.
ReplyDeleteI had that OHMSS tape, listened to it in my old yellow Ford! I loved that movie.
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, PS, that's the only '60s Bond movie I never first saw in a cinema. Saw it on TV.
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