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Music Memory: Billy Idol, "Dancing with Myself"

November 23, 2013

Dancing With Myself
The cover for the 12" single of Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself."
Album art

This week's Music Memory comes from Patricia Johnson of Plymouth, Minn.

It's May of 1984 - I'm in a bar in Merced, California. I'm on the run from my current life and all its responsibilities. I'm indulging in all kinds of things that I shouldn't but, that year, who wasn't?

Is there a song from the Teenage Kicks era that immediately transports you back to a particular time whenever you hear it? A song that will always remind you of a certain person or incident? Share it with me, and you might hear it on air!