So much for your promises
They died the day you let me go
Caught up in a web of lies
But it was just too late to know
I thought it was you
Who would stand by my side
And now you've given me, given me
Nothing but shattered dreams, shattered dreams
Feel like I could run away, run away
From this empty heart
You said you'd die for me
Woke up to reality
And found the future not so bright
I dreamt the impossible
That maybe things could work out right
I thought it was you
Who would do me no wrong
But now you've given me, given me
Nothing but shattered dreams, shattered dreams
Feel like I could run away, run away
From this empty heart
You've given me, given me
Nothing but shattered dreams, shattered dreams
Feel like I could run away, run away
From this empty heart
From this empty heart
I thought it was you
Who said they'd die for love
And now you've given me, given me
Nothing but shattered dreams, shattered dreams
Feel like I could run away, run away
From this empty heart
You've given me, given me
Nothing but shattered dreams, shattered dreams
Feel like I could run away, run away
From this empty heart
Oh, no, no, no
You said you'd die for me
Oh, for
Die for me
So much for your promises
So much for your promises
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Favorite song – Turn Back the Clock by Johnny Hates Jazz
Tony was a GREAT tennis player. It’s all he wanted to do. He trained religiously. His parents employed a personal tennis coach who kept him on a short leash.
During his teenage years he would devote all his spare time to tennis. As far as Tony was concerned, his future was tennis. Only tennis. No debate.
Sadly, as often is the case with my friends from the 80s, it didn’t work out that way. Following a nasty accident involving fishing wire, a washing up bowl and a meat tenderizer, Tony’s knee was badly injured, rendering it useless. His dreams of professional sports were shattered. His life was in ruins. He’d lost everything. But little did he know that this was NOT rock bottom. Indeed, life is a rollercoaster, and he was in one of its many, many troughs.
But not the lowest trough. To be clear.
Yes, Tony’s life was beset on all sides by the tyranny and evil in this world. Even his best attempts at creating a new life failed.
Tony left Chichester in 1991 to travel the word. He flew to Sidney where he worked in a factory for a while, until he moved onto Melbourne, before leaving the country for Thailand.
In Thailand he worked in the rice fields along side natives and other white-privileged twenty-somethings in a grotesque display of re-connecting to nature via hard labor.
Tony lasted two weeks in the fields before moving onto Bangkok where he wasted no time in employing the services of a woman of the night to show him a good time. Five days later he noticed small red lumps…
Now with a fresh case of genial herpes and a whopping amount of shame, Tony returned to the UK. He couldn’t face going back to his parents. Instead, he picked up a job in Stevenage as a farm laborer. He thought it would be a good gig. Keep his head down. Get healthy in the fresh air. Shake off the herpes. Get his life back on track.
Once again, Tony was only one step away from disaster. During a lunchbreak he managed to set fire to the hayloft when he accidently left a pop tart toasting too long in the breakroom, which was unfortunately in a portacabin adjacent to the barn.
Tony got his marching orders. On the road again.
It seemed to Tony, that wherever he went, whatever he did, it was bound to end in disaster and failure.
With the gaffers words still wringing in his ears, Tony boarded a National Express at Victoria Coach Station, and set of on a road to nowhere.
South Wales.
Gwent.
Newport.
I got word that he ended up becoming an HGV driver for Jerry Jones Transport and has been trying to keep it together since. Tony is single. He has a long-standing skin condition.
During the pandemic Tony tried to make it as an influencer. He started a YouTube channel specializing in conspiracy theories and anti-vacc videos.
The last I saw was of a live stream of Tony at an Ayahuasca retreat in West Wales with a notorious local shaman, who is wanted on a variety of (what he describes as) “jumped-up” sexual assault charges.
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1980s rewind: Just when you thought it would hit No. 1…the story of the most frustrating No. 2 peaks of the ‘80s
1980s rewind: Just when you thought it would hit No. 1…the stories of hit singles with the most frustrating No. 2 chart peaks during the 1980s; #Foreigner, #Bruce Springsteen, #JohnnyHatesJazz, #Madonna, #MichaelJackson, #TinaTurner
(January 29, 2022). Just when you thought it would hit No. 1…it suddenly didn’t.
Exactly 40 years ago this week, one of the most historic and, to Foreigner fans, disappointing milestones in Billboard chart history occurred on the publication’s flagship singles chart, the Hot 100.
It happened when, after nine frustrating weeks of sitting at No. 2 on that chart behind Olivia Newton-John’s…