FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #23: Pimp Who’s Talking
IAN GOMMÂ “Hold On” b/w “Another Year” (Stiff/Epic Records #50747, Fall 1979)
September ’79. School was back in session, and everyone but me had grown a foot taller. I didn’t care.  I was the only kid in class with tickets to the Dire Straits concert, thee hottest bill in town. I’d gladly sacrifice a foot of height to have Knopfler & Co. melt my face off from the 3rd row, hands down. What’s that you say? […]