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This morning as I was driving to work listening to Radio 1′s Golden Hour (I was clearly a little bit late since the Golden Hour starts at 9am).

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I love it when the hour is from way back and as soon as I heard the first few notes of Betty Boo‘s ‘Doing the Do’ I immediately thought 1990 (and then wavered between that and 1991 for the next 10 minutes)!

This was the year I was 14, I went out with a Spanish boy called Alex for about 2 months.  He said ‘te quiero’ but he didn’t really mean it because, well, he was 14.  It was the year I hung around the park with Sarah, sitting on the swings and talking about the things 14 year olds talk about (i.e. boys, school and other friends).

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The next song to play was Deee-lite‘s ‘Groove is in the Heart’ – what a tune! At the time, this song got on my nerves for two reasons: a) it was played WAY too much and b) one of the band, a Miss Lady Kier, kinda looked like a girl I didn’t like called Janine.  It wasn’t always that complicated being 14.

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The last song I heard before arrived at the office was I’m Free which I thought was by The Farm but a quick Google reminded me that it was in fact by The Soup Dragons – I forgotten they even existed.

Whenever I listen to the Golden Hour, I have to try to link the song with a particular event or memory if I have any hope of guessing the year.  If they had played Bryan Adams ‘Everything I Do’, then I would have been sure it was 1991 because it was number 1 for all those weeks in the summer I went to Majorca with my friend, her parents, her 18-year-old brother and 5 of his friends (it was a good holiday).  My friend and I were the only ones in the world who still loved that song every time it played, even after 16 weeks at number 1. Good times.

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