Heart Beat - Thompson Twins
This was sometime in 1986 I should think. These were tapes that Kumar bought on his trips abroad. He was not a big western music fan but bought them anyway. He asked me if I wanted to listen to them - one was this tape and another was Journey's Frontiers. I took them home and listened and liked them both.
Thompson Twins (I wonder if they named themselves after the characters in Tintin) had two major hits - 'Hold me Now' and 'Doctor Doctor' Both songs really nice to listen to. I did not care much for the other numbers. The recording was top class.
After a week I visited Kumar and he playfully suggested that if I wanted to keep those tapes he would trade it for my bike helmet. I had another one at home and the offer looked too good to pass. So I gave him my helmet and acquired these precious tapes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9694K85Xc8 (Hold me Now)
I like those labels on the cassettes. I don't remember who printed them but for a hundred bucks or so I got some colored stickers with my name and address and phone number. I stuck it all on my tapes - if they got lost perhaps they could have been returned. I lost a few, none came back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APyl6Cnbfzw (Doctor Doctor)
Kumar was this cricket crazy senior who lived in Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar. His father was an ex- MLA and Kumar was a tall, lanky person, with a cheerful face, a permanent smile and an entrepreneurial spirit. I should think he was about five to six years older to me then which would seem like a lot when you are in your junior college. He bowled off pin and batted lower order. We would play together at Ameerpet grounds. I actually remember seeing him play in the TB Hospital grounds with Hayagriv and others. Funnily I was the one who made it to the first class level from this locality - no one else did. Though he was senior he was always treating us like equals. He was great pals with my other good friend from the cricketing circles Timothy Paul and we went on several private tournaments those days - Machilipatnam, Zaheerabad, Guntur, Vijayawada, and once even to Parbhani. Paul was the mastermind behind all these trips. In Machilipatnam Kumar did one famous vamp dance that will traumatise us for the rest of our lives. After many years of playing cricket at league level, he played for Deccan Chronicle for many years, Kumar gave his house in SR Negar for development and made his second love - playing cards - his profession. He came with me when we saw Ram's first movie 'Ashta Chamma' and is always in touch with me once a year.
All in all, this tape is dedicated to Kumar the great!
Thompson Twins (I wonder if they named themselves after the characters in Tintin) had two major hits - 'Hold me Now' and 'Doctor Doctor' Both songs really nice to listen to. I did not care much for the other numbers. The recording was top class.
After a week I visited Kumar and he playfully suggested that if I wanted to keep those tapes he would trade it for my bike helmet. I had another one at home and the offer looked too good to pass. So I gave him my helmet and acquired these precious tapes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9694K85Xc8 (Hold me Now)
I like those labels on the cassettes. I don't remember who printed them but for a hundred bucks or so I got some colored stickers with my name and address and phone number. I stuck it all on my tapes - if they got lost perhaps they could have been returned. I lost a few, none came back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APyl6Cnbfzw (Doctor Doctor)
Kumar was this cricket crazy senior who lived in Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar. His father was an ex- MLA and Kumar was a tall, lanky person, with a cheerful face, a permanent smile and an entrepreneurial spirit. I should think he was about five to six years older to me then which would seem like a lot when you are in your junior college. He bowled off pin and batted lower order. We would play together at Ameerpet grounds. I actually remember seeing him play in the TB Hospital grounds with Hayagriv and others. Funnily I was the one who made it to the first class level from this locality - no one else did. Though he was senior he was always treating us like equals. He was great pals with my other good friend from the cricketing circles Timothy Paul and we went on several private tournaments those days - Machilipatnam, Zaheerabad, Guntur, Vijayawada, and once even to Parbhani. Paul was the mastermind behind all these trips. In Machilipatnam Kumar did one famous vamp dance that will traumatise us for the rest of our lives. After many years of playing cricket at league level, he played for Deccan Chronicle for many years, Kumar gave his house in SR Negar for development and made his second love - playing cards - his profession. He came with me when we saw Ram's first movie 'Ashta Chamma' and is always in touch with me once a year.
All in all, this tape is dedicated to Kumar the great!
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