My birthmother named me after this song. Sadly, it is SHE that will be waiting at the gates of heaven for me.. her son...TERRY! I was taken from her when i was only 4 months old. Thanks mum for having me, though you were struggling as a teenage mother.
I was also born in 1964, I found this song 10 years ago and I can't think of anything more apt !!! My 18 year old son called Terry, died in a motorbike accident , the words oh me when I first heard it I just couldn't believe it 😢
Grown up listening to Twinkle, due to Twinkle and my Nan being best friends through school and some of her career, but unfortunately went seperate ways. Would have loved to of met her. So sad about her passing.
If my information is right Twinkle sang this live in front of all those thousands of people and she was only 15 years old (she was 3 months off her 16th birthday!).
Is it my immagination or was this lady 20+ years ahead of her time, this performance would not have been out of place in the early 1980s and sounds fresh even to this day
It's so weird my mom is called Lynn and my dad is called Terry who passed away in 2011 rip dad I know you will be at the gates of heaven for Mam 😭 when it's her time
This a rather hard-to-find teen tragedy song -- haven't heard it since early 1964. Nice to have a video of Twinkle singing this song. Thanks for posting it, Tabbap!
Saw her performing in my local town in about 1964. A lot of people, including myself, were very disappointed with her live performance, but I have always loved the words of this song
Well no shit listen to the song shes allover the place I totally get that wasent as much of an issue then, people didnt expect robotically perfect voice and audio lol But shes obviously not gonna be great live if shes not in recording
Twinkle, whose real name was Lynn Annette Ripley, was the only UK female singer of her generation to write her own material and here daunting debut single was recorded by Twinkle at the age of 16. It went Top 5, but a follow-up stalled at #21, after which Twinkle's star faded.
The obit says that she was inspired to write this while being driven down the A3 in the back of her parents' limo, and seeing the bikers. Apparently Jimmy Page played on the record.
I believe she was introduced to Decca records producer Phil Solomon by her boyfriend - Dec McCuskey of the Bachelors, yes a bit of a surprise ?, that was kept quite as he was 20 and she was only 15, she came from a well to do family and went to private schools, I believe as soon as the BBC banned the song it shot straight to #3 in the charts, help by pirate radio stations I think she is still the youngest female singer to have also written a song that got into the UK top 5.
I SAW TWINKLE PERFORM THIS SONG IN MY HOMETOWN CORK CITY IRELAND 🇮🇪 IN THE SAVOY CINEMA CUM THEATRE IN 1965 SHE WAS A SUPPORTING ACT TO THE ROLLING STONES THE OTHER SUPPORTING ACT WAS THE BANSHEES BAND FROM BELFAST NORTHERN IRELAND A FANTASTIC WONDERFUL SPECIAL HAPPY GOLDEN MEMORY FOR ME 👍🏻💯❤
This song was the a side of twinkle 45 that I had as a biy and I used to sing this and the boy of my dreams on the b side these two songs how iwish they I had known how they would have helped to influence my gender and life so many times I thought when I realised that I had found the right partner but it went wrong from 12 to about 21 after the last girlfriend i after talking to quite a few different people realised that i was gay and my future would be with a man that was the best thing that happened to me i came down to earth and was grounded by my arthur who died in 2010 now on my own but happy
Tragically boys and men are still at higher risk of suicide than women. A wonderful 21yr old in my stepmum's family died by his own hand...and it is something one never forgets or really gets over. Gloomy Sunday was banned too in the same era, according to stepmum.
My mum ,a original modett from Chelsea in the 60s tolded me this song was banned from the radio,cus people were killing themsleves over it ,yet it’s such a beautiful song and wasn’t Jimmy Paige (led zeppelin) playing guitar?
A Luvly Girl Sadly missed Im curious in the backing group. the guitarist nearest her, the one wearing spectacles, does any one know what make/model guitar he is playing ? Also a strange high up playing position.
I accept I will probably get crucified for this, but it is only an observation and in no way meant to be rude to two Top Class Entertainers. Does any one else think that BRIAN CONNOLLY of the SWEET looked very similar to her,hair style etc, There is also a bit right at the beginning of this when she stars to sing..she smiles rather nervously, BRIAN does the same right at the beginning of one of the WIG WAM BAM videos Just an observation
I'm 12, and i can say, where the hell has good music gone? Oh fuck macklemore and that shit. people used to sing about things that mattered, not fucking "thriftshops" sigh. I hate now days music.
