It’s quite possible that this song is the “Sliding Doors” moment that put me on the musical path that I would ultimately follow.

This is strange, when you consider that “Your Imagination” is the fourth, overlooked single from the band’s 1981 mega-hit Private Eyes album – and the only single of the 13 singles the band released in a four-year span that didn’t crack the Top Ten – but the video for the song featured something that I had never seen or heard before: an extended version of the song. This mix itself is nothing special – it has your typical instrumental build-up and a mix-out point for the DJ – but that hardly mattered. The mix opened up a whole new world of possibilities to me. You mean there are people who take a finished song and then screw around with it? That’s awesome!

I proceeded to spend the rest of my high school years as that kid who took his records, which by then consisted mostly of 12” singles rather than albums, and made his own versions of the songs by hitting ‘pause’ on the tape deck at just the right time. It’s a miracle that I ever managed to kiss a girl before college.
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