This record has a particular personal emotional resonance for me. Forty years ago was my first year at university, That year is and always will be a hallowed glade within my memory banks. Yeah my soul. I do believe in the soul. This one takes me back to the impossible and unsurpassable experience of youth. Spending time with friends you've become fast with immediately. And just happen to be rooming in the same corridor together .In four adjoining rooms. Listening to music. Talking about life in the quiet glow of the night. It only happens once.
Rod had this record. And Rod, Ben, James and I used to listen to it in his room the first and second terms of our first year at Fifer's Lane Student Residence in Norwich. We were probably back from the Fifer's Lane Bar full at the end of the evening of pints of snakebite and black.
Hands clasped around steaming mugs of coffee. Minds aglow with the events if the day. As close as human beings are ever likely to get in some ways. before events eased us apart like a spider's web being brushed aside in morning dewlight on a forest walk.
I'm listening to What Goes On now that glorious rollercoaster mesh of guitars, organ , bass and drums at the heart of the record speeding inti the everlasting night and the moment is aglow again. Lou Reed and his gang beckoning us into the night to whatever lay ahead. We had no idea. That's the inescapable mystery of life. We're fools if we imagine we know what it's all about and where the road is going to take us.. 'It's the beginning of a new age...' .
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