Fame At Last

Last week I finally got a copy of Bob Stanley’s epic pop history Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! and I wish I hadn’t taken so long about it. Not only because it’s a great book, but in the list of names acknowledged in the “Sources” section at the back was none other than ME! I was very surprised and, as you can imagine, well chuffed about that. Being in such a terrific — and possibly definitive — book is a real honour. Even my daughter was impressed.

I’m listed because I used to be a regular commenter at the Popular blog when they were covering the hits of the 70s and 80s. I don’t comment so much anymore because they’ve got to the point where I haven’t heard any of the records they’re talking about, but I still read it. Bob was obviously lurking around the site at the time, not only does he name-check it in his book, but Saint Etienne did a song about it on their marvelous last album Words & Music. Sadly I’m not mentioned in this though.

Download: Popular – Saint Etienne (mp3)