Elton John 'Peachtree Road' SACD [SACD] { } ~54.00.00 88280

A lot of that rock would now be called Heavy Metal: Uriah Heep, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath were, unless I’ve leapt ahead of myself, already going, and cool people already knew about David Bowie whose ‘Major Tom’ had flopped the year before but was a coming man. There was a rumour too that Long John Baldry’s old keyboard player, Elton John, had produced an album that was so far out it was far in. These were things I did not know. There was one band, however, that I soon came to know everything about. About halfway through my first term, Rick Carmichael ran out of cash and decided to hold a Study Sale, an auction in which all the stuff, gear and rig he could do without became available to the highest bidder. I came away from this sale with the complete set of BBC tie-in Jeeves Penguins and an LP, the very album whose first track ‘Hunting Tigers Out in India’ had been playing when I had first knocked on Rick’s door. It was called Tadpoles and was the work of The Bonzo Dog DooDah Band. I had heard of them because they had enjoyed their one and only Number One hit with ‘The Urban Spaceman’ while I was still at Stouts Hill ...»