A NICE LEAN BANGER and FAT LARRYS BAND

I was now Working on my Own, in the Butchery Department, as I said I had to do everything myself, but it did have its Perk's!

One being I had a Choice of all the Meat in the Shop, at that time I think you could have around £3.00 of Meat each Week Allowance, (as a Staff Purchase) 30 Years ago that was a Decent amount of Meat, so of course any  Meats I took home for my Family, was the Best Cuts, i.e Steaks and Loins, one thing I remember doing was Making Home Made Sausages, I use to use Prime Pork Leg Meat and hardly any of the Extras, which normally went into Sausages (Rusk, Fat etc) So our Bangers were always Tasty with Hardly no Fat!


I got on with all the Staff in the Co-op Supermarket (where my Butchery Department was) I remember a couple of the Old Girls names (who worked there) one was Vi and Ivy, I also remember one of them had a Son (who used to shop there) who was about 6 feet 9 inches Tall.

The Area where the Shop was situated was a place called "Cobholm" I knew it well as I used to have Friends in that area and when I was a Kid, and when I was about 13 years old, every Sunday Morning I used to play Football (for about 2/3 hours) in the Hairdresser's College Playground, it was about 20 a Side, that was a Great Memory from my Childhood!


As for Music around '82, a Great single Release was "Zoom" from "Fat Larry's Band" it reached Number 2 in the UK, it was taken from the Album "Breakin' Out" (this reached Number 58 in UK)


Fat Larry was Larry James, he was a Vocalist and Drummer with the Band.


Before his Death in 1987 (from an Heart Attack) FLB Released 8 Studio Albums and 19 singles in a 10 year Career.


Zoom was by far his Biggest Hit in the UK, but it was a different story in US, where about 10 of his other Releases faired better in their Charts!