This song reminds me of roller-skating on a Saturday afternoon at the Grandby Halls in Leicester.
When I was a boy roller-skating involved wearing boots which had four wheels, one on each corner of the foot, rather than along the middle in the style of ice skates. I bought my first pair of skates from Zodiac Toys in the town when I was fourteen and used to go on a Saturday with my friends Mark Vickers and Stuart Monteith! Over the years I became quite good at it and moved up to some lovely leather boots with superfast wheels and when the technology developed some stiff plastic boots with amazing high speed wheels by Bauer which were the ‘dog’s bollocks’ of skating equipment.
Roller-skating (and I could go backwards and do jumps and so on) was something that I continued to do well into my twenties until I went to drama school and sometimes when I was home from there I went along to see what was happening. The Grandby Halls was a former drill hall and very large and an ideal venue for skating and they always played the latest music very loud! Sometimes when I would hear a song we would all jump up from our seats and skate as fast as we could to it and this was one of the songs. I can remember loving skating to this and smoothly gliding along impressing the ladies with my skills…
Every time I hear this song I am reminded of the fun I had roller-skating and wish I still had my boots…
Now listen to the song….
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