Sunday 11th November

At last I've written a guitar song I can be proud of. "She's so automated". A killer bass line, great soloing and silly lyrics add up to a hit song, to be the star of IBM T5 *

Someone will have to be very foolish to buy IBM T4. Side one is side one of T2 but quietly. Side two is absolute silence. I'm not going to be a popular character in school. Who cares? Who would bother buying it anyway?

"She's so automated" is really good. I mentioned the title in Bk 9 and wrote the bassline about 3 weeks ago. I wrote the lyrics on the spot rhyming "her" with "answer". Hopeful track listing for T5 - "Dance", "Slight", "Waltz", "Transit", "She's so automated", "Parallel objectives". Side two. "60 seconds in heaven", "Heaven and hell", "You say", "Insult", "Live without you" ** (could be a reject?), "Embarrassing situation", "The way we were", "Fond regards to the bitter end". I might put "You say" after that. It will be on a C90 tape with incredibly long versions of "Dance" and "Transit" (15 mins each!) *** 

On the Money Programme, in a segment about ACT Computers they had "Computer love" by Kraftwerk as background music.

I mustn't get bogged down in IBM tapes.

Ok. True fact. Beverly reckons I fancy Jackie Whitehouse! ****

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Footnotes

* I have absolutely no recollection of this song at all and I definitely never recorded it.

** A totally different song called "Live without you" would be written and recorded in 1987, the 1984 version was probably better. 

*** Remarkably this is actually quite close to what became my debut tape "Robert Morgan Learns To Dance" a few months later - instrumentals on one side of a C90, songs on the other. It's online but not recommended. I have no idea what "60 seconds in heaven" was and doubt it actually existed.

**** And she was right, not that I ever admitted it. Jackie was the absolute spitting image of Debbie, but was in the year below me so "too young". Not that that stopped Rachel and Kinny who were a year apart. Bear this in mind for future mentions of Jackie. 

This is also the answer to the question "Was I writing for an audience in school?" Because if I wasn't writing for an audience I'd have admitted that Beverly was right, wouldn't I? 

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