But while both those records spent much of the summer months inside the UK top 10, on its initial release Urgent crashed and burned outside the top 50 and spent only four weeks on the chart. Thus, in the second half of 1981 a 7” copy of Urgent by Foreigner, costing a mere 50p, became as much a part of the soundtrack to my summer as the decidedly more typical Tainted Love by Soft Cell and OMD’s Souvenir. But every now and then a record which could only be classified as ‘Rock’ would nag its way into my brain and then inevitably into my record collection.
Okay, I tried it once when I was a teenager, but I only did it in a pathetic attempt to fit in with my Heavy Metal friend – everybody had to have at least one at my school – and it never really stood a chance of taking hold considering the fairly strict ‘No Guitars’ preferred listening policy I was subscribing to at the time.
All that posturing and ‘axe grinding’ never really appealed to my predominately pop-orientated palate. I’ve never been what anyone could even remotely describe as a ‘Classic Rock’ fan.
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