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Ha! It's completely out of character on the album. All of their albums.

I got into them very early, think my cousin had bought 'It's Not Me Talking' in 1981, and loved the keyboards. I obviously thought they were American.

Most people over here at the time thought A Flock Of Seagulls were an American band. Big in the States, not much going on over here.

The Hitchhikers Guide theme was my introduction to The Eagles in 1978.

Thank you for that, very interesting. He comes across as a very nicely spoken and thoughtful man.

Do you call him lucky Steve?

I would imagine 'all the excitement' was due to a few posters proclaiming this choice as the best ever on the thread...that's what my head is telling me anyway and I'm sticking to it.

Was mega awesome Radiohead?

I spoke to him earlier today and he remembers it differently. He sat on my head.

Even I don't know that! It was a toss up between this, some banjo or 70's smooth...

Agree on Mark White, now give us a score!

That was later MTV...early doors it played a hell of a lot of different stuff.

Nice one centurion.

In 1983 30% of US record sales were by Brits. It started with Pop Muzik by M, Human League, Duran Duran...even Billy Idol counted!! Blame MTV.

He's on about Love the TV show and not the ABC album.

Too pieces, I before C, Midnight, In My Room and Tuesday. To name 5. I'll try and keep my diet simple for when you pop round...;)

It went gold in the US. Not bad.

A few years later, I worked for a beer delivery company running out of Peckham. We used to deliver to the Houses of Parliament , Mansion House etc etc and we were never checked as the guards knew us. Big truck, full of kegs...what could go wrong! Especially as at Parliament we used to leave the...

ABC - Lexicon Of Love For my choice this time out we are travelling back to the weird and wonderful times that were 1982. A year dominated by a trip to the Falklands, the IRA blowing stuff up, a strange number of aircraft crashes, Villa winning the European Cup, an old ship being raised and...

Series called Love and the building is called The Lexicon. I'm nothing if not simple...