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Desert Island Discs

After much contemplation my chosen eight songs are.. Lindisfarne - Road to kingdom come  Growing up one of my first experiences of listening to music was playing old Beatles singles on a stereogram in me mam and dads house. The Stereogram was this huge wooden ottoman type piece of furniture that had loads of storage and a record player, wireless and speaker built in. I remember me mam used to have all her Abba albums stored there and my sister had a few records in there too (Debbie Harry ??). There was also a box where lots of cassettes were kept and this is where I stumbled across this song, my dad had a copy of the Lindisfarne anthology and I used to play it loads - I found it hilarious that Fog on the Tyne had a line in it about having a wee on a wall. The song I kept coming back to and played over again and was the first ever "ear-worm”  I can remember is this one. I can remember riding round the streets on me bik...