Musical Memories

Greatest Hits Radio has a 10 at 10 slot which is a guess the year and my husband and i spent many evenings in the Summer on the balcony listening and if i had a penny for every time he said 'Wow, i haven't heard this one for years' i could have bought myself some headphones to block him out and listen to the Thompson Twins and Culture Club in peace and while we generally rocked the 80s and 90's, anything from the 70s we generally sucked at.
It is always amazing how the first few bars of a particular half forgotten song triggers a memory which sends the years spinning back and you are transported back to your younger self doing whatever your goofier, stupider younger self got up to with equally goofy and stupid friends.
I could easily make up a musical timeline through all my life's important moments although Billy Joel would feature very heavilly because from a young age he has been a constant thanks to parents who had all his Albums and played them on a loop and through sheer weight of Mr Joel in my ears, he has followed me into adulthood like a Piano-Man comfy blanket.  
If the 70s were a bit of a blur then the 80's was the time of all lifes first so there are many songs which spend me spinning back in time like an older and more female version of Marty McFly, some brilliant, some sad, some i'd rather forget and some which probably made sense at the time but all are memories lurking in my brain just waiting for a 80s singer to drag them into the light.
There is one song which i forced into a situation, a song which i knew i would be hearing, hopefully alongside the man who would share my Radio on the balcony decades later although it's a bit of a strange one, the German National Anthem.
Turns out that the tune to Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken is also the same tune as Das Deutschlandlied, the German National Anthem so when we had to choose a hymn for the Wedding Service, i chose that one as i knew we would be hearing it at every World Cup, European Football match and generally where-ever Germans  gather to sing about Germany, Germany above everything in the world.
Obviously it could all have gone very wrong and my husband could have turned to out be a complete git and a bitter divorce and i would be throwing Schnitzengruber at the TV screen every World Cup and European Championship but we are about to embark on a much delayed 25th Wedding Anniversary European Tour for most of November then it turned out okay and if i can just find somewhere in Munich to hear their National Anthem on the 25th November, then it would complete a very
romantic circle.