Who said The Beatles were upper-class twits? My wife, who is English and is an expert at class distinctions, says that the Fab Four were pretty much working class blokes, while Mick Jagger was quite well educated and spoke with the Upper Middle class accent.

Anyway, there are many songs that act as time machines for me. I can still hear Green Fields by the Brothers Four coming from a radio in a motel room in San Francisco, ca 1957, where I stayed with Mom and Dad on a vacation. One cold night in November 1966 after a High School Football game , some friends and I jumped into my pal Lanny McCoy's Galaxy and the radio came on playing Good Vibrations , the first time I ever heard it.

I took a full-time job working until midnight at the Post Office in Louisville in 1968, and the local AM station had "underground" music from 12 til 1 am. I first heard many "acid-rock" anthems on my lonely drive home through the deserted streets. Memorable among these were Mechanical World by Spirit, Time by the Chambers Brothers, and Led Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused .

Mick, I'm with you on the early Buffalo Springfield. My favorite was Expecting to Fly .

My brother-in-law loved CSNY and had to be the first to get Deja Vu on eight-track. I remember lying on a blanket with my then girlfriend Patty, hot summer day looking out over the lake, and the first strains of Carry On wafting through the cannabis mist.

I had an eight-track in my Volkswagen Convertible which I cleverly mounted under the passenger seat, in order to deter thieves. I found that reaching down there between my date's legs to change tapes was a real ice-breaker.

LEJ