Take Me Back - Downloadable MP3 by Alan Dreezer published on 2023-08-10T15:46:50Z The idea for “Take Me Back” came from hearing “Heart Of Glass” by Blondie a few months ago. It made me start to reminisce about the late 70’s / early 80’s and my first teenage crush Tracey Williams. She was a neighbour and loved Debbie Harry. I was infatuated with Tracey but never told her how I really felt being a shy 14 year old (although I think she might have known?) until eventually she moved away. I’ve often wondered what might have been had i said something? We were good friends though during those days and hung out on the streets around where we lived, teased each other about music a lot and played games like “Run Outs” and “British Bulldog” with a bunch of the other kids from our area. Those were such great memories and they felt like simpler times. So I started jotting down some of the names of those kids, then the songs that soundtracked those days and then the movies and concert tickets we queued for as teenagers. Then a specific memory came to mind of recording the “Top 40” countdown on a Sunday afternoon. Didn’t we all do that as teenagers back then? I started shaping the lyrics around those thoughts and added in questions like “Was life better then?” “Has technology changed things for the better or worse?” within a few hours "TAKE ME BACK" was a song! Genre Pop