Jon and Vangelis: I'll Find My Way Home b/w Back to School

I don't know; it must have just been that the distributors didn't think that we in Woking — or Tonbridge, or wherever I bought this — deserved to have our singles in picture sleeves. Perhaps they were right. Mine always seemed to come in plain sleeves anyway, unlike the, ahem, pretty picture on this page. This is despite me buying it very soon after its release, as it rose up the charts and got Jon Anderson what would have been his second or third Top of the Pops appearance (I think he was on with Yes in the early '70s when there was an album slot on the programme, and possibly with Vangelis for I Hear You Now). Anyway, he looked right at home there, and either his halo was particularly radiant that night or he'd had a very large bowl of that radio-active Ready Brek™ cereal they used to advertise for kids.

Here's how he looked, more or less, when I saw him in 2005 (mentioned previously), with the hairy Greek bloke's part automated or edited out of the arrangement — no 'ping pong' synth drums here…

It's by some distance Jon and Vangelis' best loved track (see their Last.fm charts), yet always leaves me feeling ambivalent, verging on indifferent.

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