Spicks and Specks – The Bee Gees

The song, Spicks and Specks, was my all-time favourite when I was a teenager.  It dates from 1966.  It was written and recorded in Sydney and was the first hit the Bee Gees had.  Well before their reincarnation in disco.  It is a huge ballad.  But looking back at the lyrics now I can see it fed into teenage angst very well.

“All of my life

I call yesterday

The spicks and the specks

Of my life've gone away”

Barry Gibb, who is the last surviving Bee Gee, was born on 1 September 1946.