Obviously I did not hear this when it came out. I heard it first at university. I was surprised that the Equals were a group of different ethnicities. Even in the 80s that was not common.
I was born in 1966 in Newmarket Hospital.
In those days the mother stayed in hospital for day afterwards. My Dad spent most of that time in the Mount pub. He was only 22…… My Mum was 20.
(The Mount, no longer a pub).
My first four years were spent living in Luton, but my grandparents lived in, or near, Newmarket for the rest of their lives. I loved staying with them in their house – Mike and I were of course spoiled rotten. Our grandmother was an amazing cook and would feed us until were no longer hungry (which is a hell of a long time with two growing boys). They indulged my desire to search every newsagent within 10 miles for American comics. They took us to the British Legion on Saturday nights to drink coke and eat crisps. You don’t realise it, but life is never better than being a kid with indulgent grandparents.
(Molly and John Wood with me at the front circa 1973).
(2 Linton Close from Google streetview).
Little did we know that the just round the corner in Field Terrace Road lived a couple where the husband would murder the wife not long after my grandparents moved.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wifes-body-is-found-10-years-after-her-murder-1591452.html
Eleanor Rigby was number 1 when I was born, but another Beatles track is on my list further up. My brother Mike gets Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkins. My sister Alison Church gets Honky Tonk Woman and my sister Frances Etherington gets Long Haired Lover From Liverpool. I think I win😊
This is Baby Come Back.
Five Miles Out 