Blog: The Vinyl District

Jon Sidel is on vacation and will return with all new episodes of the Idelic Hour on 8/31. This episode was originally broadcast on 1/27/12. —Ed. Greetings from London, England! In 1973, when I was twelve years old, my best friend and I came to England for summer holiday camp. Yesterday, walking down an east London street I had a flashback to one of the many "teen dances" we attended that summer. At the time I remember thinking "Brit kids" were a queer bunch of fairies, dancing to such music. I had never heard [...]