OK, what was your first ever favorite song on the radio? The one you just couldn't get enough of, the one you of course went out and bought the 45 single of?...
Mine was "Rock the Casbah" by The Clash. My real introduction into the world of popular music came in the fall of 1982. The Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics and Patriots weren't doing it enough for me anymore, and I was still at the time way too shy with girls. Never a big TV person, I turned to FM radio -- specifically 103.3 WEEI FM Boston. That was the big Top 40 radio station at that time. That riveting sounding guitar/piano intro to "Rock the Casbah", Joe Strummer's forceful and energetic voice thrusts -- and that crazy echo chamber at the end of the second verse! Incidentally, of the two versions of the song that got radio airplay, the one with the echo chamber was the only one I liked.
So thank you is in order to The Clash -- whatever else you were, you were my first stop along the path of a lifelong love and devotion to contemporary music.
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