September 1st
Bought Alice Cooper poster at antique bicycle
shop in C[arnaby] Street.
[I remember the poster, but why in a bicycle
shop? Those crazy Carnaby Street hippies!]
September 2nd
Came through London and went to Olympia DIY
Ex. Ran out of money. Bought Masai statue though.
[My parents loved the Ideal Home Exhibition.
Whether that was "DIY Ex" or not I can't remember. Dad also used to
go to Olympia for a big electronics fair we always called the Ideal Ohm
Exhibition too. In those pre-credit card
days it was quite easy to run out of money, and dad did. Please note it wasn't
me that bought the Masai statue, a two-headed, bright magenta sandalwood
monstrosity that scared the daylights out of visitors for years to come. I seem
to remember we actually ran out of said money in an Angus Steak House, where we
had to hurriedly cancel an order after the soup course and flee.]
September 7th.
School's back again. And School's Out is now
number 11. Big drops.
September 8th.
I prithee, gentle Samaritan, abolish homework
and Sweet and Slade.
[I know I'm celebrating Glam Rock, but I'm me.
And anything that could possibly threaten T. Rex in the charts got deprecated.]
September 11th.
Heavy sounds regale the chart! Up with Mott
the Hoople, Alice and T Rex and whoever else. Sink the Stones!
[I don't know what the Stones had done to me,
as the album that year was the immense Exile on Main Street. Perhaps I meant
something else. If I was thinking of the sublime Rocks Off, Shame on me.]
September 19th.
Ziggy Stardust for Chief Sewage Inspector!
He's insulted Marc. [Mary] Whitehouse
thinks Alice is insulting.
[I think that was the interview where David
Bowie called Marc Bolan "prissy
and fey and engrossed in his own image", which even at the time I
thought was a case of pot/kettle/black. Mary Whitehouse was a
Campaigner for Decency who never did grasp the
difference between Art and Having Low Morals. She was the PMRC of her day.]
September 23rd.
Got tickets for Lindisfarne!
[I was becoming all grown up! Phew, rock and
roll!]
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