Paul Simon – ‘The Boy In The Bubble’“The first album I remember hearing was ‘Graceland’, and the first song on that is ‘The Boy In The Bubble’.
I think there were a lot of children my age whose parents were ‘recovering hippies’, I think is the phrase, who played that album around the house a lot.
My dad had it on vinyl – and we used to have it on cassette as well because I remember it being on in the car.”Blur – ‘Parklife’“It would have been Christmas 1994.
I was a singles and compilations guy up until then. That album hit me as I was starting out at secondary school, and it defined all the music that I’d be into for my teenage years.
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