Phil Collins, Elton John, and Gloria Estefan dominated Adult Contemporary radio back in the 1980s and '90s, yet have disappeared from modern radio. Seemingly, the only time you ever hear them is at the grocery store or your local CVS. This blog remembers the music, the stories and the quirky characters from my days working in Adult Contemporary radio.
Monday, January 21, 2019
The Police "King of Pain"
As a forty-something adult with no criminal history (minus that time when I was 12 and shot off bottle rockets in a park near my home), I still feel a guilty sensation whenever a police car drives past me. My first instinct is: they're looking for me! I'm not sure who or what to blame for my always-guilty-for-no-reason conscience. An equally guilty feeling overcomes me whenever I exit a department store for fear I'll set off the ever-embarrassing "you stole something" alarm. For the latter, I seem to always be that guy who finds that one clerk who forgot to remove the security tag from my newly-purchased slacks. As for the former, this may or may not stem from Halloween 1991. As that night of trick-or-treating began, I literally walked across the street from my house to my friend Matt's house when a police car stopped me. He offered this threatening warning: my description matched that of a neighborhood bully who was stealing candy from other children. The description apparently was: a boy wearing a black coat. GUILTY! After explaining to the officer that I literally just walked about 50 feet from my house and, for that reason alone, I didn't do it. He warned me that he'd be out all evening to keep an eye on things (i.e. "me").