True / Spandau Ballet (1983)
"True" is an essential soundtrack item for being nine years old in the summer of 1983, where it constantly played on the radio at Charlotte Swim and Racket Club. I knew nothing about the song except its melody and ubiquity; I was still a year away from tuning into Z-100 on my own, all day, every day. I was in high school before I rediscovered "True" on the jukebox at The Honey Bee diner in Glen Burnie, where my best friend Eileen and I would eat fries, drink coffee, and chainsmoke Camel Lights (still legal to smoke indoors and underage in 1990-91). Playing "True" was the first order of business every time we went there. I don't recall anything else from that jukebox, but "True" was an early experience of the hold musical nostalgia has over me. The lyrics of "True" evoke a school dance -- "Head over heels when toe to toe;" "With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue / dissolve the nerves that have just begun