My parents had pretty different music taste. Ma did early Beatles and Motown, Dad did Rod Stewart and the more hippy stuff. So travelling in the car was interesting musically.

They did agree on Don McLean (there were others and I will get to those.. I did not as a general rule, but how often do the tastes of a teenager coincide with their parents?. I am so pleased that American Pie is the song they could always agree on and which I’ve known all the words to as long as I can remember but the rest of Don McLean did not do it for me.

I have a theory that the first version of a song that you hear is generally ‘the version’ of that song that you carry. My version of Crying, which I know is a Roy Orbison song, is the version by Don McLean (and the only version to get to No1 in the UK). I know it’s not the original and I don’t care, if I think of this song, it’s this version.

And it’s been an earworm this week, so now it’s yours