a memory assist in my lap
Jan. 16th, 2026 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwI woke up thinking about ICE and vigilantism. Then I wanted to hear the song "The Vigilante" from some time a long time ago. A quick search of youtube with just the title gave me a gazillion wrong hits. I dredged up a line of the lyrics, typed it into duckduckgo with the word lyrics, was given the whole song and the singer's name, went back to youtube, and here is is
It's from 1973. Someone in the last 20 years or so thought it was worth making the lyrics readable. Someone else thought youtube users would like to hear it. Was it actually Topic records, when they did the reissue? I knew some people who worked at Topic in London in the early 1980s. If I think very hard, will I remember Tony's last name or the street address? Or maybe if I think of other things it will just pop into my head.
Julian Barnes said some interesting stuff about memory in a Fresh Air interview yesterday. He's 80. I remember going to hear him read (something) decades ago at a bookstore in Boston (I don't remember which one, or what book he was promoting).
edit - it was easy to confirm that it was Tony Engle, but I haven't come up with the address yet. Probably somewhere in the Finsbury Park area.
https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/topic-records-full-length-biography/
It's from 1973. Someone in the last 20 years or so thought it was worth making the lyrics readable. Someone else thought youtube users would like to hear it. Was it actually Topic records, when they did the reissue? I knew some people who worked at Topic in London in the early 1980s. If I think very hard, will I remember Tony's last name or the street address? Or maybe if I think of other things it will just pop into my head.
Julian Barnes said some interesting stuff about memory in a Fresh Air interview yesterday. He's 80. I remember going to hear him read (something) decades ago at a bookstore in Boston (I don't remember which one, or what book he was promoting).
edit - it was easy to confirm that it was Tony Engle, but I haven't come up with the address yet. Probably somewhere in the Finsbury Park area.
https://www.topicrecords.co.uk/topic-records-full-length-biography/
