Reliving my Fame days.

My first full time job, when I was just out of college and still wet behind the ears, was in a central London, luxury department store.  Over the course of my time there I met many wonderful and varied people and I struck up some friendships that have lasted to the present day.

One friend who I was very sad to lose touch with has just come onto Facebook and I have been delighted to catch up with her and share a little of our news and I’m hoping to meet up and share our news properly at some point in the future.

Inevitably it got me thinking back to our time working together and it reminded me of some music stories to share.

One of the things we initially bonded over was our shared love of a relatively obscure band called Ezio (I have written about them before in ‘Finding that Musical Sparkle’) and I remember how we were both so excited when we found out the other one liked their music also.  I felt an immediate kinship with her and we spent ages talking about their music and how it had moved us.  As the cliché goes, it was the start of a beautiful friendship.

We used to stand there and have in-depth discussions about religion and evolution and other topics like that and go on our lunch breaks together.  It made the day go so much faster and more pleasantly having someone like that to work with.

Eventually we went to an Ezio gig together and we got our CDS’s signed by the band and had great fun dancing together and singing out the lyrics full force and then reliving it all again the next day as we set up for work.  Such a fond, happy memory for me.

Another thing we used to do (don’t ask me why) is sing the opening verse and chorus of ‘Fame’ by Irene Cara to each other.  We’d be setting up in the morning for the day ahead, or standing around waiting for customers and one of us would start singing the opening line.   ‘Baby look at me’ and then the other one of us would smile and sing back ‘And tell me what you see’ and then we were off together until we sung out the chorus.  It was a strange and funny thing to do and I’m sure we must’ve got some disapproving looks from our managers and I’m also sure there were some dance moves we made up to go with it too!!!  Eventually my friend bought me the ‘Fame’ soundtrack and to this day I can’t listen to that song without a goofy grin spreading across my face and my memories going back to my friend and our time together.

For some reason when I left we never staying in touch (I remember it was a busy and complicated time in both of our lives) but I thought of her many, many times over the years.  I even rung her old phone number a few years back, but sadly it no longer worked.  Then Facebook did something useful, rather than the usual cat and joke photos and I managed to find my friend again.  Hopefully we won’t lose touch and I hope we can maybe share a dance and a sing-a-long at an Ezio gig one time again.  Who knows, maybe we’ll even relive our ‘Fame’ days too!!!!