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
(I’m including songs I heard while moving through in Europe in 1985. I’d like to say that I recall music of local origin, but alas, my brain wasn’t always trained [...]| 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
Introduction to the 2025 Edition 1984 gets all the ink, but it was the year 1985 that changed me forever. There was no keeping me down on the farm after [...]| Roger Baylor
