This song reminds me of going to Loughborough Grammar School in 1979 when it was a massive hit. As I lived in Leicester and Loughborough was some 15miles away I started my commuting life early (aged 11) and before the start of a dedicated school bus I had to walk round the corner and get a lift with Michael Walker (a bank manager who worked in Nottingham) and his son and two 0f his friends.
I can’t say that I enjoyed my time at Loughborough Grammar School and luckily for me it was my outside interests (namely the local youth theatre group of which I was a member) and the quality of my local friends with whom I did not share my schooldays that kept me from going mad there.
I did, however have a number of friends at Loughborough, and bound together by a common desire to survive the experience as best as we could we loved and shared our music. A number of the boys were heavy metal fans and had I not gone to LGS (as it was known) I would never have discovered Rainbow, Deep Purple, Free, Cream and Motorhead so it did me some good at least.
This is a classic rock number that will always remind me of LGS!
Rock on Mr. Bonnet and the lads….
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