(Top 50 Countdown!!!) 44. Don Henley - "The Boys Of Summer"

Look, I know what you’re thinking: you’re wondering how something as defiantly 80s mainstream AOR could possibly be a bigger influence on The Pooh Sticks than “Throw Aggi Off The Bridge”, right? But maybe only if you’re not American, cos American fans (OK, I say ‘fans’, but I maybe just mean ‘enablers’…) do seem, on the whole, mostly, on balance, more often than not, to happily join the dots between the boy Henley’s sportscar/Deadhead-sticker/sun-tan Grammy-bothering and our, kinda, other. Plus, he does sing it nice, doesn’t he? It is, fair play, one of the best singings I know of on a record, so I was immediately on board when this one was getting spun our end during the recording of “Million Seller” and it was being decreed that “Jelly On A Plate” was going to be ‘this, but different’. Turned out quite a lot different, I know, but if I asked I’m sure I’d be told that the ‘feel’ is there.

"Think Bubble" is an album (LP only) of 1995 demos for an unreleased Pooh Sticks album.
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