O no! It’s the trance record that befuddled a generation
Who would have thought just one song could have caused so much controversy, but that was the case on my breakfast show recently. Each weekday morning on the show about 8:35am I have a feature called My Guilty Pleasure in which listeners own up to a song they secretly love.
You know the song, you wouldn’t ever ask a DJ for it at a party or play it in front of friends as one of your favourites, it only gets played when your are on your own!
I introduced the feature when we entered our first lockdown, knowing that hearing some of the worst songs ever recorded would lift spirits and put smiles on faces.
We’ve had it all, Star Trekkin’, Shuddup Yer Face, Making Your Mind Up, Ernie
The Fastest Milkman In The West and so it goes on.
Where else would you hear the likes of Bucks Fizz, Dollar, Englebert Humperdinck or Chas & Dave all in one place but on my breakfast show?
Well it’s been going strong every since and looks like no sign of drying up and I’ve just started doing My Christmas Guilty Pleasure with Showaddywaddy and Jose Feliciano already played.
I’ve always said we should never mock someone’s personal choice, if it’s their guilty pleasure, who are we to diss it?
Well, last Thursday I played one such guilty pleasure that I’m still getting people talking to me about, asking if I got into serious trouble for playing ‘that’ song.
It was a song which incredibly went to No.2 back in 1981 by an American woman called Laurie Anderson and it’s called O Superman.
It’s eight minutes 20 seconds long and you would have heard nothing like it before, with a repeating ‘oh, oh, oh, oh’ all the way through it.
Well, the phone lines lit up and emails flooded in. The boss was unhappy
I’d played all eight minutes of it and subsequently banned the feature for fear of losing listeners.
Happily the thousands of pleas from people wanting the feature to stay saw him do a government-style U-turn as long
as I stay out of trouble. As if !