Sound Of The Suburbs - Members
I think I mentioned before that when I graduated college I worked for Air France at London Heathrow. It was the worlds largest airport in terms of international passengers carried, which meant there were a hell of a lot of planes flying in and out between 5am and midnight every day. I lived in Isleworth, in a house with a railway line at the end of the garden, directly under one of Heathrow’s flight paths. We were right where the pilots typically lowered the undercarriage when the planes were coming in to land. You certainly couldn’t hold a conversation when planes were overhead and they were coming in every 30 seconds or so. Concorde would make the house shake. It’s amazing what you will put up with when you’re young!
“Sound Of The Suburbs” was out around the time of our mock O Levels in 1979, and at the time I was pretty sure they sang “Johnny’s upstairs in his bedroom sniffing in the dark, annoying the neighbours with his punk rock electric guitar”. If you do a lyrics search now, old Johnny appears to have cleaned up his act and is merely “sitting in the dark”. How boring.
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