Another Flashback to the 1980’s

I won’t comment on this other than to say this song really brings back memories.

I won’t talk to the issues it led to at my house at a certain time.

Or to some issues in my neighborhood when the neighbors across the street called the cops.

I won’t mention this involved a  party when my parents were out of town, with stereo speakers on the porch, a brand new Broadway Cast Album  and a young black man wearing my mother’s best 1960’s coat from Rippe’s, the one with the mink collar and cuffs, who was doing his own take on this song…repeatedly…in a very white neighborhood…on the porch.

Or that he was the first friend I lost to AIDS…

Or that I was scared and didn’t offer as much support as I should have…

This was just emblematic of a time and a place….

Andre Bentley, this one’s for you…