Radio Kent broadcaster and producer Andy Garland looks back to his early days of courtship to unravel the mystery: what is love?
I want to know what love is... At least I did when I was 15; then, my knowledge of this elusive Valentine’s emotion was sketchy at best. I knew it had something to do with how I felt when Melanie gently blew in my ear in a darkened corner of the village hall disco.
But mostly, what I knew about what my seemingly ancient relatives all called courting, was gleaned from a rather natty Telstar compilation LP with the grandiose title of The Love Album.
Heavily publicised on TV, the cover featured a man and a woman silhouetted in dark blue, with their faces revealed in soft-focus colour. He looking like a middle-aged George Michael minus the beard, she looking like an older Cheryl Ladd.
Why I ever purchased this is lost in the mists of time, other albums I could have bought that year included The Smiths’ Meat is Murder, Talking Heads, Little Creatures or Tears for Fears’ Songs from the Big Chair.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Kent Life.
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