I would have loved to have been a teenager in the 80’s, if only to have experienced ‘Smalltown Boy’ in the nightclubs of London…
The debut single of the British band ‘Bronski Beat’ (what an introduction for Jimmy Somerville’s spine-tingling voice) – how many club tracks have this level of poignancy and depth?
Although the lyrics describe the story of a gay man forced to leave his hometown, the song transcends one particular narrative to become a universal anthem for anyone wanting to get out – wanting to make a new life for themselves, just the other side of that train journey…
