As you may or may not know, I’m a bit of a rocker on the quiet. Tell me about a music festival and I’ll do my best within my budget to get to it. We can all link certain songs with events in our lives, and I’m no exception. But when I try to think of songs by just one band that sum up my life, I keep coming back to the same one- Abba. Here’s why:
‘Dancing Queen’: Sums up my late teenage years and early twenties as a disco dancing queen!
‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’: Ooh, heart-breaking teenage angst! ‘Nuff said!
‘The Way Old Friends Do’: This is me and Sam down to a tee. We can share a silence without having to say anything.
‘One Man, One Woman’: Another one for Sam and I. The song says it all really.
‘Thank you for the Music’: To have music in our soul brings us untold joy. I know, because I’ve got it in mine.
‘Move on’: Everything changes with time, and we must change with it and move on.
‘I Have a Dream’: I have had many dreams. Some of them have come true, and some haven’t.
‘Eagle’: Ah yes, sometimes in dark days I’d like to have been an eagle flying on the breeze…
Which band sums up your life?
Stevie Turner 
If Abba isn’t cool then I don’t know who is. Still wonderful after all these years. My fave “Fernando” The angst, I loved it.
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Ah yes, another lovely song.
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Some were brought up with Elvis, some with the Beatles, like you I grew up with Abba. I know a lot of people won’t recognise two of the songs you quoted there (Move On, that’s an early one, and One Man, One Woman).
To the list I would add The Piper, Our Last Summer, I Let The Music Speak and My Love, My Life. I blogged about Abba and how I liked them at a time when it was clinically uncool to like them and paid the price for it. And in the next Toten Herzen novel I pay homage to Abba by naming Rob Wallet’s boat the Agnetha.
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Well, I’ve learned four more Abba songs that I never knew existed! Thanks Chris, I’ll have to check them out now on iTunes. I don’t care if I’m uncool; I stopped bothering about that years ago!
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Bryan Adams, 18 till I Die, The Summer of 62, Everything I do, I do For You, Straight From The Heart, Cloud Number 9, The Best Was Yet to Come, Coming Home and many more. I swear they were all written for me!!
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Ha ha, sometimes it seems like that, doesn’t it?
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I think the song that summarizes my life is from Paul Simon, “Still Crazy After All These Years”.
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Woh! Still crazy….
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I was turned on to (what was then called) modern Jazz back in the mid 1950s. I still love it. But over the years I’ve grown to love all manner of folk, rock, and country. I don’t think any one band sums up my life. If you fancy it, there’s a superb festival takes place within earshot of where I live. The headline acts have yet to be announced but I believe all the camping tickets have sold out. Can’t offer our spare room as grand daughter will likely be using it. But there’s space on our drive for a camper van. https://www.electricpicnic.ie/
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Sounds great, but looking at the date I can see that Sam and I will be on the Isle of Wight for the first week in September. Perhaps next year?
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We go to http://www.redrooster.org.uk/ each year, which is a rock n blues festival, we stay in the motorhome for the weekend. The music is delicious, acts come from all over the world. But The only music that isn’t for me is chamber music and lone sopranos. My husb has four guitars and loves Leaonard Cohen, David Bowie, cream… the list goes on. Swing music brings my dad back in a flash ( we lost him Oct 2015 ) taking me around the house standing on his feet. We went to Tuscanny to soak up Andrea Bocelli singing in his outdoor theatre in the Tuscan hills. Music is part of our existence.
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Wonderful! Sam and I will be going to the Red Rooster festival on the Saturday. Thanks for the info. If you’re still there then we can meet up? Euston is just up the road from our place, about 8 or 9 miles.
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Fantastic! We will look forward to it. *claps excitedly* we are their for the full weekend . Wooho! email me the week before and we can swap phone numbers or arrange a time and place to meet.
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I’ve just noticed kiddy tickets are free. We might bring 2 of our grandchildren as well; one is 11 and the other one is 9. It would be their first festival.
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It is one of the smaller fests and last year had a tent with supervised play, art and games time… a couple of hours where they can have children type fun. Look on the site to see if they offer it this year. They have face decorating for older ones as well as face painting and hair braids flower weaving and lots dress up. Kids and adults pirates, fairies, the waltons… dont get that but all adds to the fun.
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I can remember me and my daughter-in-law traipsing about the Download festival all weekend wearing a pair of fairy wings. It was Download, so anything goes. My two sons and husband wore tutus… as you do.
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Yep maybe you should just do it! I want a tutu now *sulk* and long legs at 4ft 11inches I’d just look a rite bugger in a tutu…
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It’s a shame we can’t add photos to these comments. I have a great one of my sons leaning on a railing having a conversation, waiting for their father to get his ‘I’m over 18’ badge for the beer tent. They were both chatting away normally, but both of them were wearing tutus.
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Send your mobile number to stevie@stevie-turner-author.co.uk just beforehand and I’ll reply with mine.
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Mmm no signal there mostly maybe arrange a spot that you can find easily… and a time.🤗
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Ah. I haven’t been to that festival before, so if you can think of something that’s always there every year, then we can meet up there.
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The food /shopping area hasn’t been moved … yet they have a water feature/ fountainy thing in the middle.
Now just a time to arrange.🤗
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Say midday? I have your email address from my mailing list subscribers. I’ll send you an email nearer the time to confirm.
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Fab idea 12 O’clock sounds good.
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