The Soundtrack of my Life: Essex Girls and Electric Warriors continued By Lee Cassanell

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Their subsequent singles One Inch Rock and Hot Love both made the top ten but it was the 1971 album Electric Warrior that really propelled them into the dizzy heights of super-stardom. It's an excellent album, one of the best of the seventies as far as I'm concerned. Each track is a mini masterpiece of Mystic lyrics, rousing orchestral accompaniment and throbbing electric bass.

Everyone knows the foot tapping Glam Rock stomps of Get it on and Jeepster but It's the more mellow, philosophical tracks such as Cosmic Dancer and Life's a Gas that really demonstrated the depths of Bolan's song writing talent. I could have loved you girl like a planet/ I could have chained your heart to a star;

It's strange looking back at some of the songs I remember from my early childhood. I suppose the ones I remember best all had an uncomplicated nursery rhyme quality to them that I could sing along to without actually understanding the lyrics. Another two of my mother's favourites, The Monkees and The Mama's and the Papa's are prime examples of that. Songs such as Daydream Believer and Monday Monday are very simple and immediately accessible and I bet your bottom dollar if you played those tunes to your kids today they'll be singing along to them by the end of the week. I have friends who's parents never really played a lot of music when they where growing up and I'm thankful that I had a chance to experience such wonderful diversity at such a young age. Thanks for reading

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