28 May 2025

What song makes you think of your childhood home?
When I was in my early teens I would have spells of insomnia where for several days I'd spend most of the night lying awake. I'd lie in bed with my ears hooked up to a pocket radio tuned to the overnight show on local station Cool FM. As I remember it (we're talking thirty-something years ago), the playlist for that show leaned heavily on radio classics, and I remember "Black Velvet" being one that came up regularly. It works well at 3 am when you'd rather be asleep.
Decades later, it's a song that I still find very comforting to listen to.