This song brings me gooood memories of my childhood. I remember when my uncle bought me my first stereo. It was one of those chunky ones with double tape recorder, fm radio and a record player. Lots of useless buttons and no CD player. Proper old school…
Well, the thing is that then I had to buy vynil records! I was quite young and I never used to have pocket money, so I would have to convince my mum to take me to the record shop. The record shop was manned by this old gentleman, whose taste in music was definetely translated in the stock that he kept in the shop. I don’t remember seeing many of the “radio hits” albums on the shelves. However, you could find all kinds of late 60s and 70s rock (the good old Patti Smith, Genesis, Dusty Springfield, Deep Purple, Alan Parsons, etc). Let’s just say that the selection wasn’t that good for a 10 year old girl… On the other hand, I was easily impressed back then and both my mum and I let that good old gentleman convince us that probably Lionel Ritchie and Phil Collins was the type of music that I should be listening to anyway…
I can’t be embarrased admitting that I enjoyed those albums, and when the next Phil Collins album came out (“But seriously…“) I was down at the shop waiting to buy it. The whole album captured me. It was so good! I remember sitting at my desk with my huge English-Spanish dictionary, translating the words into Spanish and singing the songs again and again (actually, a couple of years later my English teacher told me that my pronunciation was fantastic probably because I always sang along to songs whilst reading the lyrics)
And this song is awesome. Shame about the title… Clapton’s collaboration is genius and what actually makes the song.
Nah, how can I be embarrased to admit that I love the song? I can’t!
Happy weekend, everybody 
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You are not going to beleive that..but I think I still have the same stereo as the one in the photo!! 
I was more Beatles, Carperters, Elvis…they were my mum’s favourite!. After that I discover “Baron Rojo”, extremoduro, manolo cabezabolo, heroes del silencio…and I copied all of them!! 
We are not allowed to watch the video in Spain due to copyright reasons…
But I do remember that song…¡Gracias!
María
Phil Collins…? Ew! xD
I did the same with the music I liked, though. Because I never had the kind of parents that would take me to a record store, what I did was listen to the radio and record every song that I liked on my TDK tapes. Then I played the tape, paused, RW, played the song over, wrote the lyrics, paused, RW, played, sang along – it’s a great recipe for good pronunciation! I used to have an American accent all through secondary school (and mastered cursing pretty early on, too). Thanks be given to Marilyn Manson.
