{"id":425,"date":"2007-02-09T12:14:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/09\/give-me-tonight\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T09:40:15","slug":"give-me-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/09\/give-me-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Give me tonight&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image424\" alt=\"Shannon - let the music play\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/shannon2.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>Back in the 80&#8217;s I had some records by an artist called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shannon_%28singer%29\">Shannon<\/a>. She&#8217;d made it really big in America with her debut singles &#8220;Let the Music Play&#8221; and &#8220;Give me tonight&#8221;. However for some reason she never seemed to make it big in the UK. The records used to get played at clubs in the late 80&#8217;s but I guess her records had long since been released by the time they became popular over here.<\/p>\n<p>I managed over the 80&#8217;s to get her first 3 albums imported. They were on Vinyl as that was the medium of choice as you will  recall. Anyway, everyone kept borrowing the records off me to tape &#8211; oh for CD&#8217;s and MP3&#8230; they were probably the only sort after records in my collection.<\/p>\n<p>I never managed to replace them on CD and have over time generally forgot about her. Once or twice I&#8217;ve done a search to see if the original albums can be bought on CD, but to no avail. ( You can now get a Best Of CD on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/o\/ASIN\/B00066VUNO\/\">Amazon<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/factual\/desertislanddiscs.shtml\">Desert Island Discs<\/a> ( yes I&#8217;m getting old now &#8211; deal with it! ) which featured <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Neil Tennant\" title=\"Neil Tennant\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil%20Tennant\" rel=\"tag\">Neil Tennant<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Pet Shop Boys\" title=\"Pet Shop Boys\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pet%20Shop%20Boys\" rel=\"tag\">Pet Shop Boys<\/a> and he talked about going to America to cover the release of a Shannon record. He talked about how her the sound of her records influenced early Pet Shop Boys. It was only while listening to the version of &#8220;Give me Tonight&#8221; that they played that I suddenly realised this link &#8211; and it&#8217;s such a pronounced one!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it was a slight trip down memory lane while I thought about that time when Shannon was in my life&#8230;<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Shannon\" title=\"Shannon\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Shannon\" rel=\"tag\" >Shannon<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Neil Tennant\" title=\"Neil Tennant\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Neil%20Tennant\" rel=\"tag\" >Neil Tennant<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Pet Shop Boys\" title=\"Pet Shop Boys\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Pet%20Shop%20Boys\" rel=\"tag\" >Pet Shop Boys<\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Neil Tennant\" title=\"Neil Tennant\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil%20Tennant\">Neil Tennant<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Pet Shop Boys\" title=\"Pet Shop Boys\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pet%20Shop%20Boys\">Pet Shop Boys<\/a><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/10\/15\/the-moonstar-hovered-bright-and-clear-in-a-deep-dark-sky\/\" title=\"The Moonstar hovered bright and clear in a deep dark sky\">The Moonstar hovered bright and clear in a deep dark sky<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/23\/the-lemon-tree\/\" title=\"The Lemon Tree\">The Lemon Tree<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/02\/20-years-of-giving-it-a-go\/\" title=\"20 Years of giving it a go&#8230;\">20 Years of giving it a go&#8230;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/14\/just-a-stone\/\" title=\"just a stone\">just a stone<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/12\/do-you-remember-chalk-hearts-melting-on-a-playground-wall\/\" title=\"Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?\">Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 80&#8217;s I had some records by an artist called Shannon. She&#8217;d made it really big in America with her debut singles &#8220;Let the Music Play&#8221; and &#8220;Give me tonight&#8221;. However for some reason she never seemed to make it big in the UK. The records used to get played at clubs in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/09\/give-me-tonight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Give me tonight&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-music","tag-memories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-6R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}