day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain event

I am cheating a little here, for two events are brought to mind any-time I hear a Queen song. One is when I first met a gifted musician that became a lifelong friend, and where I met other good friends, and the other event is Live Aid.

Firstly, I remember hearing Queen being played brilliantly and the sound of the piano drifting from a music room at school. It was late 1975, and I had just joined the schools 2nd year after moving home so I was short on friends and a bit lost after moving from a boys grammar school to a mixed comprehensive.

Playing the piano in that room was a boy who became my best mate. There were also friends of this musical genius, who also became my friends for the life of my secondary education and teenage years and I still count one as a good friend now, but became disconnected from the other two.

Matt Jessup is quite simply one of the most talented musicians I have EVER seen, and he was that pianist. He could play Queen or Genesis or Floyd at will along with many other tunes anyone would care to request. He was usually surrounded by entertained masses in the tiny music room at most breaks or lunchtimes, so there is my first "event" that any Queen tune reminds me of.
Alan Chun is the other thoroughly good friend, decent human being, and an early martial arts teacher, early "life coach" and worldly wise friend, albeit that I didn't know it at the time, of mine. Glen and Rod completed the quintet that was a happy quartet before I intruded, but they all welcomed me into the fold, after the usual teething and testing of course.

The second "event" that any Queen tune reminds me of is simply the day Queen ruled the musical world in my opinion............Live Aid at Wembley Stadium 13 July 1985.