Ooooommmmm
Peter Davison's Dr Who. Mike Oldfield.
An amazingly painful crush on the keyboard player from a band called Sky (yes, the one with Herbie Flowers in it, should anyone have the faintest idea who I mean) - I had invented a whole personality for him as, this being that days of no internet and Sky not exactly being the sort of band you'd see in Smash Hits, I had never heard him speak nor seen more than one publicity still of him. But jaysus, it was a painful crush and no mistaking, at twelve. It went on til I was thirteen so it counts. ;)

Don't know if any of these make my go wobbly now though. Poor old Steve is most likely ancient if he's still about.

Wobbly making now are:
Jeff Healey (altho the man is no longer with us, but eeeee, talent in spades, sense of humour and doesn't hurt that he was tall blond and gorgeous)
The guitarist in one of the bands I'm in. In fact both guitarists. I'm engaged to one of them, who is the centre of my universe, but if he ever left me once I'd figured out life was worth living again I'd crawl over broken glass to get to the other one. If he didn't have a wife and child this is - but we're talking harmless crushes here not relationship breaking plans so .... yeah.)
All of these are tall (well, taller than me anyway), blond and gorgeous. Where as in my later teens and twenties I was more into yer dark haired bloke. I've obviously gone full circle.
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 11:05, 5 replies)

WOW!
I'm a straight bloke but even I think Mike Oldfield is a disgustingly handsome guy! And he can play just about any instrument known to man, which makes it doubly worse! Never had a crush on him, just adore the music. Got everything he has ever done (Mike Oldfield's music is the soundtrack to my life) and currently reading Changeling, which I cannot put down.

And Sky too? My first 'proper' fave band (saw them live in about 1983 at the Harrogate Centre. Good gig!), whom I recently re-discovered a few years ago. Would the keyboard player be Francis Monkman or Steve Gray?

Always good to read a post from someone who knows music that not many people have ever heard of!
(Ghostlight, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 12:19, closed)

It would be
Steve Gray. Although I had all the albums so I admired FM too (the boy sure can play - I learned Gavotte & Variations, by ear as a pre teen keyboard player. Pity I can't still manage such a feat these days ;) ).

I got a warm and fuzzy feeling when I heard recently that Herbie Flowers is still going strong and was touring with Jeff Wayne on the War of the Worlds tour. Not sure what the others are doing now.

I shoulda known there would be people here who knew of whence I spoke. The B3TA class reveals itself once again.

Fav Mike Oldfield album has got to be Five Miles Out. I was totally stunned when I saw the inner of the gatefold sleeve for that lp - with the studio track sheet laying out the arrangement of "the long side". That's exactly how I see music in my head. I'd never seen such a thing from someone else before.

Ah, memories.
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 19:18, closed)

Oh, shittyness.
Just poking about on a forum I hadn't frequented for a year or so I find that Steve Gray passed away in September 2008. :(
www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/31/steve-gray-obituary
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 19:27, closed)

Sky
Bloody hell, that takes me back. I've now had to track down some Sky to listen to it again. Spotify is my friend.

Didn't fancy the musicians, mind, but I liked their music.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 12:20, closed)

Re-releases
I managed to get Sky 1,2 and 3 as a CD boxed set a while back. Cadmium, the first album I ever owned, had a limited CD release but it took me months of eBaying last year to get hold of it. Managed to track down Five Live on vinyl but no luck with the other stuff...
(Ghostlight, Fri 6 Nov 2009, 12:38, closed)