My Legendary Girlfriend

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Nothing deeply profound, and it invoked more wry smiles than belly laughs, but a nice little story nonetheless. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.

Down and down we go, until there comes a point where there’s no other way except start rising, cos we just reached the bottom of the “down trail”!After that it’s all feeling and free-association, the verses wracked with desperate yearning (“let me in, let me come in”), the chorus a descent into relief – but sad, lonely relief, the girl now deserted, abandoned.

You can listen to me on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone talking about BBC Records And Tapes and playing some highlights from their catalogue here.

There's Alice (who remembers his birthday), Simon (who doesn't), Martina (the one-night stand), Kate (the previous tenant of his rented Archway fleapit) and of course Aggi - the inimitable Aggi. To hear this clearly, listen to the live version released as a limited edition single by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne the same year – nothing is sequenced here, just a group of musicians getting into a groove together, and the song is all the better for it. Mike became a full time novelist in 1997 following the publication of his Sunday Times top ten bestseller My Legendary Girlfriend, which was hailed by The Independent as ‘Full of belly laughs and painfully acute observations,’ and by The Times as ‘A funny, frank account of a hopeless romantic.