Not been sleeping very well due to ear infection. Last night I got about four hours, which is tough when I'm taking sleeping pills as they don't wear off that quickly so I feel like a zombie.
Any way, this is not so much of a nay in the whiny sense but I didn't know where else to put it. I bought an album the other week called BBC Sounds of the 80s Vol 2. Any way, on it is a acoustic version of UB40's Red Red Wine...
When I was nine years old I used to go to a summer project during the six week holidays. Basically they would open up a school and you would go there during the day and do fun things like bingo, sewing, art etc. They also had special days where they would bring in trampolines and we would go on trips by coach down to the coast. It was fun, and I guess at that age every one gets along and whilst kids can be kids you harbor no true anger or hatred.
Any way, that summer a friend of mine from summer project was taken to waste ground opposite the bridge at Streatham Common station and was murdered by a local kid called David Fox. David had learning difficulties but Aaron's mother trusted him to look after Aaron. Any way, they went to play in the waste ground and for some unknown reason David flipped and killed Aaron.
Right around that time Red Red Wine came out by UB40. It's not the most cheerful song, but I distinctly remember not being able to listen to it without crying my eyes out for Aaron. So this morning I finally decided to listen to the song. I didn't cry (probably because of the meds I'm on) but I felt extreme sadness. As I say, not in a pissy whiny nay kinda sense but just extreme sadness that my friend's life was taken so soon. I decided to see if there was any record of this online and it turns out there was.
Dated September 1983.
It's been a very long time. However, Aaron will never be forgotten. Not by me.
This is not the only song I have trouble listening to. Just after my dad died it was Leaving on a jet plane by John Denver that I just couldn't listen to.