I love Marc Bolan and T Rex and I love this song particularly and remember it from when I was a child. I would have been three in 1971 but in the 1970s songs hung around and got played on the jukeboxes and in clubs and cafés etc and so they had a much longer shelf life. My Dad reminds me that I used to love this one when I was a toddler whenever he hears it and it does take me back to a time of black and white television, Top Of The Pops on a Thursday night and playing in the park with my mum!
When I was working at Lloyds Stockbrokers in the late 1990s I had a friend called Keeley who used to work in the post room. She was from Hockley, which is near Southend in Essex and was just starting out in the city at the time. These days she’s a hot shot at Citibank in the docklands but back then she used to bring the post to each member of the department every morning and throw it on the desk with a very casual and disdainful attitude, which I loved. We became friends and I still get a Christmas card from here every year. When I was working at Lloyds in the late 1990s I was going through a period of renewed interest in
T Rex and I remember listening to ‘Hot Love’ on my Walkman on the way to work. I was particularly taken by the line ‘she’s faster than most and she lives on the coast!’ and I remember thinking that this was my friend Keeley who was wasted delivering the post and was definitely heading for greater things.
Whenever I play this song I am not only reminded of my seventies childhood but my friend Keeley who is still ‘faster than most and lives on the coast’ although she now lives with her husband in Leigh On Sea!
Now listen to the song….
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