Tuesday, 18 November 2014

You�re Probably Around My Age If...

...you remember waiting all day long for a song to play on the radio on this type of machine...

Radio-Cassette Players (image source)

...so you could record it on a cassette like this:

( image source)

And you hoped that your player didn't eat the cassette and make a mess of it, which happened much too often...

Oh, the horror!

If it did, you had to stick a pencil in the tape spool to spin the tape back in place.



Unless the tape was broken. Then you were out of luck. Good times, eh?

As you can see in the photo below, I had a radio-cassette player in my room when I was a teenager.

I also had a cool banana I'd won at a fair, a smurf and big 80s hair! And crappy wallpaper.

And what might I have been waiting to record in my teen years? There are so many songs that come to mind, but this one was definitely a favourite because I was a HUGE Billy Idol fan:



Do you remember the radio-cassette player? What song(s) did you record?

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