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My Teenage Hiccups- Part 1

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1990's was the time when kids like us were trying to catch up on English music. The number of English songs you knew heightened your status in your own silly kid’s society.I will not lie & accept that I too have been a victim of such rat race. However given that we  didn't  have any internet in those days, no YouTube to explore  or incessant downloading techniques as available to today’s kids this information was solely   dependent  on exchange of cassettes, exchange of lyrics , which  you  would  write down after listening to the song many many times on your headphones. Not that this was a fool proof solution as it still puts a little smile on my face when this friend noted the lyrics as “Beat my lover” instead of “ Be my Lover-La Bouche ":-) . Few other techniques my friends used 1)   Buy a cassette, which you like, as gift  for someone’s birthday & then just  queue up shamelessly so that  you could record t...