This song reminds me of my friend and fellow actor Adam. I saw Adam on the telly last week and he doesn’t seem to have changed much but I remember meeting him on my first day at east 15 (some 22 years ago) and thinking that he was one of the funniest people I had ever met. He is still remarkably amusing!
I may be a mediocre actor but one thing that is certainly true is that I most definitely am a truly dreadful dancer. I have no ability for dancing what so ever however (like most drama schools) I had to have endless dancing lessons, which I loathed.
Over the summer holidays one year our dancing teacher Norman asked us to go home and create a ‘dance’ to music of our choice, which would be shown to the group in the first couple of classes of the new term. I did a (very poor) tap dance to ‘Pennies From Heaven’, Rachel and Julia chose music from ‘The Draughtsman’s Contract’ by Michael Nyman and Adam did a dance to a song by the Ink Spots!
I remember discussing music with Adam and we got onto the subject of the Velvet Underground. I had their first album and we both agreed that they were a truly inspirational band. I remember this being one of Adam’s favourite songs and so for that reason it always reminds me of him.
Maureen Tucker (the group’s drummer) takes the microphone…
Now listen to the song…
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