The first thing I remember is sitting under the piano listening to my mother playing Chopin Preludes. My father was (is) big on Louis Armstrong and Broadway show records, so I grew up with them, and Piaf (we lived in France at the time). I have always thought that was a pretty good start! The earliest pop song I can remember is "Hey, There" -- which is not an easy song to sing or play, to say the least. About the same time I remember "El Paso."

The most knockout song for me in the last X years was Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U". Completely flattened by it. It was like being 13 again.

yours, Peter T.