BIG Q CASSETTE CLASSIC
HEAD & THE HEART
CHRIS DeBURGH
Hey Der,
Big Q back again with another Cassette Classic. Most people know Chris DeBurgh from the “Lady in Red”, which was a fine song, but I was a fan far earlier. He had a hit in 1982 called “Don’t Pay the Ferryman”. I played the hell out of it because it too is a Cassette Classic, but I want to focus on a song that came out a few years later.
The album was Chris’s 7th, and its call “Man on the Line”. I learned about it from one of my roommates in college. You meet some strange people in college. This was the only other person who’d heard of Chris DeBurgh besides myself. Which was strange. When I told him I was going to the music store to pick up the album with “Don’t Pay the Ferryman” he said don’t bother, I should get the LP that came out after in 1984. He and his finance loved it because it contained their song. Well, I took a chance and picked up the cassette of “Man on the Line”. The guy was different but he wasn’t wrong. The whole album was good.
Like any other 18-year-old, human emotions were a little difficult to understand, but the song “Head and the Heart” struck and emotional portal in me that had yet to be identified. It talked about a couple who was having a tough time and the guy was going to let her go because his head…I.E. common sense told him it was the right thing to do. When it was time to hear from the Heart though a fight broke out. He had to chose between common sense and his emotions. The weaving of the argument was well done and like I said, it touched me. I don’t think it was ever released a single which is a shame because I don’t know anyone who was ever in love that hasn’t had the same argument in their head at some point.
Here is one of the best cuts on Big Q’s Cassette Classics…Chris DeBurgh and the Head & the Heart”..