I’m in a hotel room in Ordu, Turkey.

I’m waiting for my female (at the time) to come into the hotel.

This song gives me energy to live in this time full of artificially created madness (Many governments all around the world have created political pandemics around a virus, which majority of people called Covid-19)

It our first meet face to face and being just the two of us.

We both are full of hopes and making plans for our life in the future, which might never come.

I love her a lot and full of anticipation.

Relatively soon, she will come…

youtube.com/watch?v=9U5fNLL1rYM

I’m in Edirne, Turkey.

I’m staying at an Airbnb accommodation with my young and attractive Turkish female host.

The song is being played on the TV.

Even without seeing who exactly is singing the song I like it.

I like it even more, when I see who is singing it: a young blond attractive female.

Since that time the song is in my collection of favorite songs.

Uzbekistan, modern settlement not too far from the capital city.

This song takes me immediately into my childhood. I’m sitting on the carpet, which lies on the floor in the living room. There is a movie on TV. It is a love story and I am too little to understand the love matters between young adults, however the song is very memorable, melodic and sets itself solidly into my memory, to the degree that even now, many decades later I still remember it.

I’m a child. It is 1980-ies.
We’re at my father’s best friend’s place.
I have the headphones on my head and am listening to the songs performed by Demis Roussos.
Headphones are of a very good quality and I simply immerse into the songs and music and after a while I go to play the ping pong game on TV screen.

I’m in my apartment in Munich. It is a windy winter day, however the spring is coming slowly and yet surely. One can already feel it and smell it in the air. Some birds are chirping and singing.

I just finished watching a movie called “Kuka” about a small girl, who lived with her dead grandmother to rely on her pension payments, which the girl would receive even longer after the grandmother died.

The movie was recommended to me by a female friend of mine, who I know since we were teenagers, after I recommended her a movie to watch.

If you don’t understand Russian and you didn’t watch the movie, the song itself won’t do any sense for you and won’t cause any reactions in you.

Central Kazakhstan
I’m at my college, where I was studying at the time.
We have a disco evening in our classroom, approved by our class teacher and organized by all of us.
We are blessed to have a great DJ guy in our group.
The evening was an absolute success, so we will have a remake of the evening one more time some time later again.
We’re young, the girls are pretty.
On one of such evening a friend of mine gets to meet his future and still his current wife and the life partner.

I’m in my apartment in England watching “Coupling” a sitcom, which was broadcast there at the time and I was still watching TV at the time.

This song was the opening theme of this sitcom. Every time I listen the song it reminds me of the time in England and about the sitcom itself.

I’m in central Kazakhstan. It’s cold winter.
My baby sister is in the hospital. She came to visit me and my grandparents and in the new year eve night her appendix brought her into hospital. My now deceased uncle was overseeing her recovery however not the operation itself.
The other girl in the hospital room is beautiful and quite experienced with boys and I am “dumb” and inexperienced. Nevertheless we end up meeting each other a couple of times. We didn’t end up as a couple because I “opened up” to one of her female friends (I told her some stuff from my life I’m not really proud about and she told it further) and it didn’t go well and we end up becoming strangers to each other. It was a pity because we both liked each other. She liked my reserveness, holding back and shyness and I liked her beauty and outgoing nature. She was clever as well.
Now every time I hear the song it reminds me of her. Her name was Elena Tikhomirova [*], however I didn’t get to know her as too quiet and too peaceful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bo6V7eHvlA

* Tikho means quiet in Russian and mir means peace.

I’m sitting in the cold and not heated room of a house which soon will be demolished.
I sit at a desk and close to me is staying my aunt. It is cold end of September days.
Before playing back this song to her I was doing in the internet what I usually do: research, listen to music, educating myself etc.
She asks me what the song is about as she doesn’t speak and understand English. I tell her that the song is about freedom and God.
Once the song finishes she goes back to watching TV and I go back to my usual activities.

youtube.com/watch?v=PLIKjKRU0YY

Every time when I listen to this song I cry, I don’t really know why, however I do. Every single fucking time.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=moSldGlDVdU

I guess the Russian part of my soul does…

England 2004 – 2005
The song was played by nearly all pubs in the country at some time.
Now every time when I listen to the song I make a time journey into this time.

I’m a teenager
It’s a late evening
In the TV runs the music marathon organised by Pepsi
This is where and how I saw and heard this song.

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I’m outside but the song is playing in my head.
Just a couple of days ago we had an earthquake and for this evening there was a prognose that it will be another earthquake tonight. Some people are on the streets, some however, like my mother, ignore the prognose and stay indoor, doing what they usually do at those late hours. It’s a fresh however not cold evening. Some children are playing. Some parents are talking to / with / at each other.
After some time spent outside some families start returning back to the apartments.

P.S. It didn’t earthquake that night.

Across the Stars: Love theme from Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones. Music by John Williams and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.

I’ve loved Star Wars I, II and III since I watched all three of them.
I simply love great love stories.

I’m sitting in the bus on an actual fresh morning in Nairobi, Kenya.
Next to me is sitting a young woman with her son.
We’re going to go into the city center.
The music is thundering from the all the speakers installed on the bus, and believe me there were many, however it is actually a very pleasant song.

I’m agnostic however I actually really enjoy the currently playing song, to the degree that I record a good portion of it onto my smartphone to remember it and I search for the song on my smartphone on the internet.
The sun is warming up the air and the day becomes pleasantly warm.

The category is called “The songs and music I love”

In this category I will place the song or music piece(s), which I love and I will also write my association with the song or music: the most bright location I associate the song with, activity etc

I’d like to start with a Russian song “Ты узнаешь её” / “You will recognise her” performed by Russian all male band “Корни” / “Roots”.

The setting:

One of the Baltic countries
A hotel room
Outside the window is the cold winter evening
I’m in bed with my girlfriend to become, sexing, in the background is a TV playing songs on a music channel.
Suddenly my female shouts “I fucking love this song”, slips underneath me, jumps out from the bed, runs to the TV and makes the TV louder.

She lays herself onto her stomach and for the longevity of the song I just lay near her caressing her hair and body. Once the song finishes we proceed with what we paused with.

This was / is this song.

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Another setting for the same song

I’m on the train with some mixed company of males and females: стажёры from Nizhny Novgorod; we are returning from a day out trip.

I have my O2 XDA and this song is playing in my headphones. I guess either the headset quality was low or I was listening to the song quite loudly that one of the guys recognises the song and affirms me about it.

– Корни?
– Да
– Я удивлён что ты слушаешь такое
– Ну, да, слушаю

And I look out the window, as we’re going in the area of Ditcot.