THIS IS A JOURNEY INTO SOUND

Songs attach themselves to our lives for a number of reasons: linked to memories of people and places, names and faces, loves won and lost, the birth of a child or the passing of a loved one, but one word can sum it all up - sentimentality. It's a oft-derided term, usually given cheesy or mawkish connotations, seen as somehow "naff" and reserved for soppy ballads and love songs. But it is why that song you kissed your first love to, why the lyrics of a particular tune remind you of happy or sad memories.It's certianly why Our Tune was so popular on Radio 1 for so many years! I say all this because i got married recently, and over the course of the five and a half years i've been with my wife we've acquired a few personal songs that will forever be "ours". Needless to say, we had them played at our wedding reception, so without further ado.....

A short post to highlight some of my sources that aid my memory in writing this blog. Although i consider myself to have a pretty good recollection of when and where i heard certain songs and artists, i'm not infallible, and whilst i remember most of the music i've loved and bought over the years there is just SO MUCH of it that some inevitably falls through the cracks! And whilst i am still a voracious reader of music magazines, websites and blogs, they will only help jog my memory so far. When it comes to writing my year by year posts, two websites have been an excellent help: one being the Official UK Charts website, and the other being James Masterton's Chart Watch. JM has been writing the latter since 1992 and his often witty observations about each weeks singles chart action have been a great help. https://chart-watch.uk