This music reminds me of...

[Mad Doug Biker]

This when Concorde was retired. I'll forever more think of it as 'The Concorde Song' (even though it isn't):

View: http://youtu.be/HgzGwKwLmgM

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And on going through the line up of competitors in things like the Grand National and The Universary Boat Race, the BBC would always play this (the main tune anyway). Maybe still do in fact:

View: http://youtu.be/YWdOFgDQIn0

 

[Accy cyclist]

Long John Baldy's Mexico reminds me of when i had my tonsils out at Accy Vic' in 1968. It's not played that often so when i hear it it reminds me of the horrible place!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AvaxTKfhCc

 

[TVC]

July 1985. The end of my first year at Leicecter Poly. The halls of residence on Stanley Road. Everyone had finished their end of year exams, no lectures, just 100 students waiting for their results.
A hot July afternoon in the halls garden, Pete's sterio speakers pointing through the windows, football, beer, a barby and a load of 19 year old lads kicking back after a bunch of hard revision. Bliss

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

After I had my operation to reverse the bag and create a pouch, an op that was unsuccessful, I was lying there in the Hospital one night. I had been given my own room, so all was still, quiet, peaceful. I lay there in some discomfort looking out the 6th floor window as darkness gathered outside, the lights of the surrounding area twinkled at me, the summer sky, with a few whispy clouds, was a most exquisite blue colour, the type that only happens after dusk.

I was there contemplating the ramifications of my failed surgery whilst listening to the radio. For some reason I had never really bothered with BBC 6 Music before, but I put it on purely out of curiosity. It was a show by Gideon Coe (I think) and seemed to be a wide variety of different things (as I now know 6 Music to be like). I listened to the pleasantly ecclectic stream of music, wondering why I had never listened to this sooner, when, Jon Hopkins's 'Immunity' came on. I was hooked, and remember saying out loud 'That's Beautiful!' as it made me relax even more.

Of course, I was drugged up, and although it is a nice, chillout piece, it isn't exactly the most exciting thing ever. Nonetheless, this is what I think of when in hospital that time!

View: http://youtu.be/Y8eQR5DMous

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Being driven around the middle of nowhere, on a pitch black country road, lost, somewhere in the north of England, with this playing, jeez!:

View: http://youtu.be/04EShclPAa0

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Even now, Le Tour!!:

View: http://youtu.be/1IMjb6sU5Mg

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Football in Italy!:

View: http://youtu.be/kHXfHFNlJ_w

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

In all it's terrible tackyness, complete with Vangelis having a quick drag of a cigarette between parts, its, this, and it represents for me the Olympics, iint!?:

View: http://youtu.be/TYJzcUvS_NU

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

And finally, this for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics!! I was 10 at the time and it left such an impression on me that I went about singing the tune with

'Fartsalona!!'

At the crucial points for quite a while afterwards (it wasn't as bad as it sounds, I was in the School chior, so could actually sing at the time, albeit several octaves higher that I can now!)!!

This video is also camp on a good scale, from the days when I only knew camp to be a place where tents were!:

View: http://youtu.be/IHRd0R-uKHc