My formative years are up till 1979ish in West Germany where I was born. My father was in BAOR, and we were rotated in and out as is the way of military life.
Later eras are reformative because (for example) we might be discarding the flared trousers to adopt the skinny jeans. Our formative years however are unique because there's only virtual history to compare with or even reject. So, it uncoils slowly creating new forms and is imprinted on our memories. To a greater or lesser degree.
The sounds of the Seventies are not just my soundtrack to those formations. Often, it's only the music that stood out to the exclusion of everything else. That's how nourishing music in the 70s was.
The music production broadcasts on British Forces Radio in those days are my leitmotif to the past, and in those moments, one friendly optimistic and in love with music voice narrated those times. That voice sounded like Johnnie Walker.
Was it Heraclitus who said all flows? I'm not great at remembering names but ideas are easier to retain, and Heraclitus might be misinformed about formative years music broadcast on the wireless as my Northern pals called it. When I listen to Sounds of the 70s the immersion in the past is complete. I'm more present there, than in the here and now as it were.
Johnnie Walker has hit the 500th mark towards his stated 1000 today. Congratulations Johnnie.
What a tribute. Decades later and I'm still swooning head over heels to the 70s.
Keep it up Johnnie and Thanks for the time travel. I mean it
