My Top Tracks: The Only Ones, Another Girl, Another Planet

The eleventh track of My Top Tracks When I was doing A levels at my local college in the early '80s the were two groups of students that hung out in the common room. One was the trendy types into Culture Club and so on with floppy fringes and fashionable clothes. The others were the weed-smoking hippies. I was in the latter group, hair down to my stomach and long heavy coats. But I got on with both camps. In the trendy one there was a guy called Howard or Malcolm something like that with the floppy fringe look and and an old men's suit. His favourite band was The Only Ones and we discovered our mutual love for the group. The day after they broke up in 1982 he wore black to college, came over, and we mourned their end. The Only Ones did manage to straddle the two sub-cultures although I don't think any of my friends were really into them. I think I first heard The Only Ones' Another Girl, Another Planet on John Peel's Festive 50 chart. Every year in November or so the listeners to his…