As you all know this is my favourite album of all time and takes pride of place in the centre of my gallery of albums in the bar.
So when I heard that ABC were going to do a tour to mark the 40th Anniversary of the release of the album by simply playing it from start to finish live there was absolutely no way I was going to miss out on that. I'd got the tickets on the morning of release and John & Pauline were coming as well.
There was no way I wasn't going to enjoy and remember this event so when we went for a beer before the show I think I only had one - similar to the Pet Shop Boys evening.
It was brilliant - I loved every minute of it, we had good seats near the front and I was like a kid in a sweet shop, they kept laughing at me as I sat on the end of my seat straining forward to hear everything and take it all in.
They got it spot on by playing some of the music from other albums (Lexicon of Love 2 and Zillionaire) in the first half and then after the break it was the album itself, magical! Shame there was no dancing as such but the place erupted with The Look of Love and they used that as the encore as well which wasn't surprising as it went down a storm.
Such a fantastic memory, it was good as he asked the crowd if anyone was in the New Theatre when ABC played here about 40 years ago and of course, I was there then!!
Brilliant, brilliant night - loved it.
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