Queen on my iTunes
Queen’s The Game album is quite possibly my first memory of any album ever.
We were living in Germany (Air Force brats) and my brother got a turntable and The Game for Christmas. I thought he was 8 or 9 years old, but since it’s release date was in 1980, he must have just turned 10.
Anyway, like most of my big bro’s favorite music, I was subjected to listening to this album non-stop. Apparently, this brainwashing was performed during a very impressionable period of my brain’s development (My brain is, too, developed! Hush now and let me finish my story.), because I still have the entire album pretty much memorized word for word.
I did end up liking it enough that I bought it on CD when I was in college, and it is now part of my iTunes library. The funny thing is that, while I’m listening to it and singing it, I still expect it to skip in the same part of the album where my brother’s record had a scratch.
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