Update 20th June 2006

The Bee Gees wrote a song in 1976 called "You stepped into my life", well reverse the "76" to "67" and they did just that. I was listening to the radio in my room as I was getting ready to go out when I heard a song playing that made me sit back and listen. I missed the very beginning but caught the words "It's just a Photograph of someone that I knew", Wow, what a voice !! The song continued " have you seen my wife Mr Jones, do you know what it's like on the outside" As usual, whenever you wanted to catch the song title or the artists name it never mentioned again and true to form, it wasn't. I really liked that song so I decided when I got paid from work, I would go down town and buy it, I had a rough idea what the song was called but not the singers.

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 Update 24th June 2006

So come the weekend, I went down town to our local record store, in this case "Bruce Moores" (Which is no longer there) and asked the assistant if they had a song called "Have you seen my wife Mr Jones" The assistant looked rather quizzical at me and shook her head, "Sorry, we don't have any thing called that", Oh well, It looked as if I was going to have to try to catch the song on the radio again, I hadn't heard it again since the first time so there was little hope, but as I was leaving, the girl shouted across to one of the booths were another girl was setting up records for people to listen to, "Have you heard of a song called Have you seen my wife Mr Jones", "Yes" she called back over "except it isn't called that, It's called "New York Mining disaster 1941", she went on to say it was a new group called the Bee Gees and it was one of those rare records which doesn't include the title in the lyrics. I would never have guessed that title in "One Million Years" another classic song title but that's a different story.

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Update 23nd July 2006

So having paid for my record, I took it home so I could hear the song in its entirety. I didn't have Hi Fi in those days, I just had a mono Record player that had a volume control and a tone control.
If you turned it up full volume you could just about hear it over the other side of the room but I didn't care, it's all I had and I was lucky enough to have one of my own. I listened to the A Side for a few times then turned it over and played the B side "I can't see nobody",  WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Update 13th January 2007

I thought the A side was good but the B side just blew me away, I had no idea who was singing the lead vocal but his voice was so different to the normal singer of the day.

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