The Stories and Song Meme

Geekymummy at The Hair Dog Chronicles tagged me for this Meme.  The idea being you choose a song (not necessarily a favourite) that has a personal story attached to it.

Lots of songs spring to mind and it is difficult to choose one! Its funny how music and memories work together.  A song can transport me back to a particular moment in my life almost like opening the page of a photo album.  A picture pops into my head as soon as the opening bars of the music begin.  Of course, these days I often don't have time to indulge in the memory. A fleeting smile being all I allow myself before dismissing the memory and moving on with the constant to-do list I carry around in my head!  However sometimes there is nothing like wallowing in a good reminisce.
So here are some of my song memory snapshots:

The Wombles of Wimbledon (1970s) I remember playing a rather scratched LP on a very small cheap turntable over and over again as a child and singing along to this......it reminds me of the first house I lived in (until I was 13) and the 70's decor all flowery wallpaper!!!

Queen - Another one Bites the Dust (1980) Our next door neighbours of the time loved this song.  It was a 3 bed semi and so the party wall used to throb to the sound of the beat!!  Over and over they played it and I remember how angry my Father was......there was even some banging on the wall.....

Michael Jackson - We are the World (1985) This one is all about my first slow dance......I am in a disco in the early afternoon in France.  It is the school French Exchange.  I have no idea why there was a disco on in the afternoon.......but on hearing this song I am instanty transported back to that disco....I am wearing a navy all in one trouser suit thing....baggy with a wide bright red belt round the middle (probably looked like a sack of potatoes tied in the middle!!).  I have no idea what the boy was called......

Starship - We Built This City (1985) This takes me back to one of many arguments with my sister.  I am in the hall and need something from her room.  She is playing this song and won't let me in.  The memory is more about her attitude and the petulant look on her face than anything else!!!

I could go on and on with snapshots of the 80's ..... but I won't.... 

This is the one that I can't stop thinking about though.  Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet child of Mine (1988).  This one is all about my first year at university.  About falling in love (with The Husband!) and about leaving home and making my own way in the world.  It was an exciting (and slightly scary) time in my life.  I am transported back to the kitchen (communal) area in the halls of residence.  It is the flat The Husband shared
(with 11 other men) in the high rise accommadation at The University of Essex (Colchester).  Sweet Child is playing loudly on the stereo and there is a bunch of other girls there singing along.  They were paying far too much attention to The Husband for my liking and I remember the jealousy all too well........but I don't know why I was worried about them as he only had eyes for me really and we listened to that song alot over the years and still do.  We have seen it live together and head banged till we couldn't hold our heads up!!
Despite all the 80's pop which I still hold dear (the soundtrack to Top Gun and everything Wham! and George Michael ever did.....Cyndi Lauper, Madonna and Rick Astley) I am definitely a Rock Chick at heart and I always love it when my true musical tastes are revealed to my current friends as they can't quite beleive that the frumpy mumsy middle aged woman they are friends with really likes Iron Maiden and Metallica and would dearly love to still be attending the Monsters of Rock Festival at Donington Race track every year!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-AYAv0IoWI