Jane's Getting Serious

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  Seven Songs for the Week #126 - 3rd Sept 25

  Jason Carty

  Memory is a strange thing. From the same 1987 hinterland as Wendy & Lisa comes this song. Now, for background, as a kid in 1987 the most exciting thing to happen was when Music Box/Super Channel launched and MTV Europe thereafter. There was access to a bunch of music that hadn't been there before.

  Skip to 2025, and I'm reading about the upcoming rerelease of The Who's Who Are You album, which had been co-produced by Jon Astley who is someone known to any big Who fan as the man Pete goes to to remaster and organise Who reissues for over 30 years. He was also Pete's brother-in-law until Pete divorced his first wife.

  Reading about Jon Astley I learned he had a brief recording career of his own in the 1980s, and that this was his only "hit". I immediately remembered the song having not thought about it or heard it (AFAIK) for 38 years. It would have been in that 1987 milieu. Memory is strange.