GRAPHIC CONTENT What we’ve been talking about
HEADLINE It’s Scotland. It’s June. The rain is hammering against the window but, if you’re lucky, some sleet might be along in a minute. And if the sun does actually make an appearance, there’s a fair chance that midges will soon be destroying your flesh. There is literally nothing quite like a classic Scottish summer. Still, we can but dream of balmy hot evenings and the perfect aid to those cruel mirages are the songs of summer. So, what tunes get people digging out past-its- use-by-date sunblock and imagining those heady youthful days of being buried in quasi-asphyxiating sand?
HEINZ MEIER & JOHNNY MERCER’S
SUMMER WIND AS SUNG
BY FRANK SINATRA Happiness is only a whisky sour away
NOW IS THE MONTH
OF MAYING BY THOMAS MORLEY
Because ‘barley-break’ ain’t nothin’ to do with harvesting, right?
SUMMER NIGHTS
Was there anything hotter than a pre- scientology Travolta?
RIDE WIT ME BY NELLY Every time
BJ THOMAS’ RAINDROPS KEEP
FALLING ON MY HEAD Sums up a Scottish summer for moi!
RAMMSTEIN BY
RAMMSTEIN Not sure why a
catastrophic air show
disaster makes me think of summer, but
there you go
DJ JAZZY JEFF
& THE FRESH PRINCE’S
SUMMERTIME Say no more
MELANIE’S GARDEN IN
THE CITY ALBUM
The smell of summer in case
that was not obvious
DON HENLEY’S BOYS OF SUMMER It had boys. And it
had summer. And that jangly guitar intro which
immediately evokes ice-cream in Largs
PORCELAIN BY MOBY
It was played round the pool constantly on my first ever trip to Greece where it was a boiling 40 degrees every day. As soon as I hear it I long for the sun and Mythos!
ELLA FITZGERALD’S
VERSION OF THE GEORGE GERSHWIN
CLASSIC SUMMERTIME You can almost feel the oppressive heat of the southern states bleeding through as her lazy drawl wraps around
the lyrics. Quite why I associate heat with Scottish summers is another question
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