Flashback from a song

It still amazes me how a single song can bring back so many memories about a time you had forgotten not that long ago. Tonight I was walking down the highstreet, from my train, homeward bound, when Thriller started on my Ipod. I found it near impossible not to tilt my head, Zombie style as the beats continued and then I was thinking of my first ever concert. Michael Jackson, Wembley Stadium 1984.

Fond memories of the first time you see a Mega Celebrity, let alone, aged Eleven head off to an 80,000 seater stadium to see the King of Pop. An experience I will never forget. Of course I repeated this with several MJ and Madonna concerts (lucky bitches) in the coming years and those memories of the Bad Tour, the Blond Ambition Tour, all come flooding back every time I return to Wembley, the most recent times being both for Take That’s the Circus & Patience Tours. Who would have thought that Take That would return and be just as big, the second time around.

This had always left me somewhat agonised at the loss of my other favourite group, Steps. It somehow felt tragic that they split when they did and how I missed their cheesy style and their poptastic tunes. So you can imagine my elation when I heard the news they were reforming and tour dates were announced. So excited for the new tour which we managed to get tickets for (lucky bitches), and even more keen that Madonna will be back in the UK in the summer as part of the Olympic Seasons Concert programme.

La Isla Bonita reminds me of being in Miami, much like George Michaels ‘Careless Whisper’, reminds me of taking off in a 747 (from the days when you could listen to a walkman during take off). Anything by the Carpenters reminds me of road trips my family would take as would Rock & Roll.

Songs such as “Hands Up” and “Superman” remind me of Christmas at my Aunt & Uncles and the slightest hint of a bell ring and I am thinking of Coca Cola and the Holidays are coming advert. (Adverts could turn into a whole new genre of their own). Bugsy Malone soundtrack reminds me of being in the scouts and Yogi Bear of Juco Camp. They keep us sane and happy. S club Seven remind me of Cindy and Simon and Kylie, Rue Paul, Gail Tuesday, Bucks Fizz, Brotherhood of Man, Katrina and the Waves and the Weather Girls all of nights at G-A-Y and Sandstorm and Circles in the sand of Heaven.

They are all different songs, all with different meaning and different associations and yet they are all one thing to me. A trigger song. So my question to you is, what’s your trigger song and why?