This is one heck of a good mix tape, if you like interesting sixties and early seventies music.
The diary tells me that Paul popped around with records etc. on the Thursday evening (9th). My diary entry for the 11th reads:
Lazy sort of day. Shopped etc. Taped for Paul. Lazy evening.
My guess/vague recollection is that Paul popped around with a sample of the records he had been acquiring since we left school. I would have shown him the records I had acquired since he last had a look at my (by his standards) minuscule collection. So we agreed to do a mix tape swap.
Unquestionably I’ll have got the better end of the deal. I suspect that the mix tape I made for Paul is lost in the mists of time. Whereas the above tape is an absolute cracker. Not the only mix tape from Paul that week either; there is an even longer tape dated 15 April 1981 in my collection. And a great many others from the following two or three years. More on those anon.
This tape, along with the longer one that I shall write about over the next few days, was a huge part of the soundtrack of the summer term at Keele that followed and way beyond. I still listen to Paul’s mix tapes occasionally; these from Easter 1981 surprisingly often.
Great stuff Paul. Thanks again, forty years on!
To the extent I am able, I have made up that mix tape below with YouTube links. Some might get broken over time, but I’m sure you can find the items for yourselves if you are interested.
4 thoughts on “A Mix Tape Fest With Paul Deacon, 11 April 1981”