1986 and all that jazz

1986 was three years on from leaving school, changing posts but at least in terms of outlook no different from them, hardly in mid teens mentally just masking along trying to impersonate a grown up with a lack of conviction.

That much had stuck me the year before staying in a guesthouse struggle between wanting to play on the beach which I found relaxing and going around museums which I do like - always did as a kid - but not all day.

One couple expressed the thought I was lost. Oddly enough that couple from Dudley just about got it as really nothing really connected to me how others thought you "should be" and keep a bit of an eye on me at least.

I preferred things as they had been sat reading the Beano while everyone else watch the politics on the tv missing not being able to play with action figures as I still still watch mainly childrens tv.

The big news musically was in 1986 I got a cd player although the discs were twice as expensive as my records so it took a while to build up any really decent collection and some recording took ages to come out in that form. 

For much of the mid to late 80's you couldn't get any RCA 70's Bowie for instance so I ended up still buying a lot of releases on record,

Jazz was secret like of mine borrowing recordings from the library and playing some of Dad's albums when he was out so I did get a couple of compilations from the Tandy store on compact disc.

It also helped the Aristocats soundtrack was very much jazz based.

Really they were samplers by other labels being a bit short at around three quarters of an hour but with some great performances recorded digitally but not too expensive.

You loaded them in the player and shut the lid which caused it to run for a few seconds, find all the tracks and wait for to press play.

I slowly started building a Queen collection as their albums outside of Greatest Hits and The Works came out on cd and bought Notorious, that years Duran Duran on cd.

I began to realize I needed to be me more.