I mentioned the song ‘This Boy’ in a post the other day when I was writing about Alan Johnson’s autobiography of the same name. The song was written by John Lennon, although it is always credited to Lennon and McCartney. I was a great Beatles fan and first heard it as the B-side when I bought the 7″ vinyl single ‘I want to hold your hand’. There is an interesting Wikipedia entry about it, apparently it was written with a nod to Motown, and is actually a very clever and quite complex number. It was released in 1963 and is sung by John, with Paul and George harmonising with him, and to a teenager in the sixties, it was dreamy and romantic – and that is how I still hear it now!
I know vinyl is becoming more popular again – but I wonder how many people actually play their vinyls, and how many just have them as collector’s items? There is a whole vocabulary connected with them, A-side, B-side, and those magic numbers, 33, 45, 78, and I still talk about records when I mean CDs or albums.
If you want to read my other post about This Boy, the autobiography, look here:
http://loiselden.com/2015/05/30/this-boy/
Lois Elsden 