Peggy and me
1991: in our shared house on a quiet Cambridge back street, my friends and I have gone Julian Cope crazy.
His single "Beautiful Love" has been a chart hit, which is why Caroline rushed out and bought "Peggy Suicide" - but she was distraught to find the rest of the album very, very different.
But my best male friend Dickon and I love it. So much we buy a vinyl copy each - unheard of for students usually content to make taped copies for one another.
Dickon, however, has a huge pair of home-made speakers, everything sounds so much better through them. Every time I play Peggy Suicide now (probably once a week), especially every time I listen to "Western Front 1992 CE", I remember an occasion in Dickon's room where he and I sat mesmerised, our cups of tea going cold and our need for study fading into the background.
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