The Pompey Chimes Forum

Music has the ability to take you back to a time in your life that sometimes you had forgotten. The older you get the more this happens and the more it often opens memories of which some are bitter sweet, it certainly does for me. Music can bring back a feeling you felt at a particular time before you realise it is the record you are listening to that is responsible. This happened to me today whilst I was driving. I was driving along and all of a sudden I felt a happy glow and then I realised that Amarillo was playing on the radio. It took me back to a sunny day a few years back when we were playing Southampton and Pompey fans had hijacked this song and put their own words to it. What a day that was because we hammered them 4-1 and the crowd that day were ecstatic, including me. Everything about the day was absolutely brilliant and it's all brought back by Tony Christie and Amarillo.

On one of our moves, we drove through Amarillo......my poor kids had it playing repeatedly. Years later, they hate the song. I wonder why.