Throughout this series, I've offered songs that I associate with the time of my first trip to Europe, and yes, I know quite well that this little ditty by Starship [...]| Roger Baylor
There was little if any Western pop music to be heard publicly in Leningrad in 1985. But this song was overheard playing on the single-channel radio set in my [...]| Roger Baylor
Accompanying these recollections of my travel year 1985 are some of the songs I kept hearing while on the road. This video features an actual library, otherwise known as [...]| Roger Baylor
The Euro ’85 Pilgrimage Compendium collects the installments of my series about “the first time” (the one you remember?) wandering the continent in 1985 with a gym bag, passport and […]| Roger Baylor
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025, Ch. 12: Omaha Beach to the Manneken-Pis and Little Mermaid. In retrospect, the itinerary I sketched out for the waning days of the inaugural Euro pilgrimage in [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage 1985-2025 Pt. 11: Sligo respite, Live Aid, then back to France for the D-Day beaches. (I’m not a Bryan Adams fan, but his song from ’85 about ’69 […]| Roger Baylor
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 10: Irish history with musical accompaniment and a Guinness chaser. I exited the Sligo train station on a pleasant, sunny day and strolled into a settlement [...]| Roger Baylor
Van Diemen's Land was the original name for the island of Tasmania, located 400 miles south of Melbourne, and notorious during the 1800s for its British-administered penal colonies. A significant [...]| Roger Baylor
Previously: Euro Pilgrimage ’85, Ch. 6: Pecetto idyll, with a Parisian chaser. During my stay in Rome, a veteran Australian wanderer taught me a “wedding crasher” trick he claimed to [...]| Roger Baylor
(I'm including examples of songs I heard while in Europe in 1985. I'd like to say that I recall music of local origin, but alas, my brain wasn't always [...]| Roger Baylor
Musical introduction, or "the songs I heard playing in 1985 as I traveled around Europe." I had no Walkman or radio of my own, so the urban environment provided the [...]| Roger Baylor
