When you've been married for almost half a century, and if you both love music, then there's always going to be something from those early, exciting and utterly romantic days of your first meetings which will always tickle the tear ducts and smother you in warm nostalgia. For Wendy and I it's the Zombies' 1966 album, Odyssey & Oracle. When they re-formed after 40 years we were first in line for their concerts at Shepherd's Bus in London and at Bridgwater Hall in Manchester. Now they're no longer thrusting young pop Gods; just little old men with wrinkles and receding hair. Yet their art remains timeless, and Colin Blunstone's sweet voice still has the power to make me lean across my seat to my wife and kiss her. This, Mr. Simon Cowell, is what pop music is meant to be: eternal, romantic, poignant. But I suppose that would mean a 'no' from you and the judges, eh?
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