This songs reminds me of going to the cinema for a pound on a Monday night back in Leicester in the 1980s!
Back in the 1970s when Leicester had two Odeon Cinemas and both were huge with large screens and many seats there was a small cinema near the Bus Station called the ‘Cinecentre’. The Cinecentre was very plush and had nice comfy wide seats but it was very small and may well have been independent. I seem to think it use dto show dirty movies in the days when you had to go the pictures to see them but I may be remembering that wrong! I do remember going to see ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ there, which was a bizarre film based on the Beatles’ album starring Frankie Howerd and the BeeGees as well as George Burns and Alice Cooper! Aerosmith were in it as well I recall and Peter Frampton!!
By the time the 1980s had come along the ‘Cinecentre’ had been taken over by Cannon cinemas and had taken to showing films which had had their time at the big cinemas and were in the death throes of their shelf life or small independent films. On a Monday you could go for a pound and my friends and I saw a huge variety of films including ‘The Hitcher’, ‘Stormy Monday’, ‘For Queen and Country’ and ‘Under The Cherry Moon’ to name a few. We also saw ‘Back To The Future’.
I must say that I hadn’t wanted to see ‘Back To The Future’ when it was on at the Odeon but as it was only £1 we all went to see it as it was the only film on that week and to be honest we all thoroughly enjoyed it! ‘The Power Of Love’ by Huey Lewis and the news is the theme song for ‘Back To The Future’ and from watching the film I came to enjoy it too…
Now listen to the song…
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