Jonathan's Disco Blog

  Floorfillers Part 2- Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You Picture Credit Ronzoni wikipedia creative commons Background If at first you don’t succeed, try try try again. Billy Ocean’s song, Love Really Hurts Without You was his tenth release after his first nine songs completely flopped. It reached number 2 in 1976 and from then on, life was never to be the same again. In the early 70s, Billy Ocean, real name Leslie Charles was working on the production line at Ford in Dagenham by day and at night, a struggling singer doing demos at Southern recording studio in London. It was here he met producer, Ben Findon. Around the same time, he bought a second hand piano for 30 pounds and started composing a demo for ‘Love Really Hurts Without You and played it to Findon who added his own parts to it, before releasing it in January 1976. The song steadily rose the charts to its peak, only being held off the Number 1 spot by the Eurovision winning song, Save All Your Kisses for me by Brot

 Thankyou for reaching this drop in the ocean on t' world wide web. As some of you may know (and others not) I have been doing this DJ lark for twenty years now. In those years of DJing at hundreds of weddings, birthday parties, kids parties and any other celebration you care to mention, I have many stories to tell and acquired a decent knowledge of music too. I hope you enjoy my foray into the world of sticky dancefloors, drunk aunties, overpriced beer, stroppy bridesmaids and dad dancing that make up the very fabric of private parties in the UK. Jonathan             

                              Mika in 2007 Source Seraphim Whipp wikipedia creative commons Sometime in late 2007, a 40 th party was not really going to plan. Everybody was sat down, no dancing, just talking and quite frankly I may as well have been invisible. That is until I was approached by one of the guests who asked, Could you play Mika, Big Girls You Are Beautiful mate? which at the time was in the charts. I gladly obliged and the transformation was amazing! To a man the entire crowd rushed onto the dancefloor and started dancing like their life depended on it. At last, the night had begun, or so I thought! As soon as the song ended and the next one started, to a man the whole crowd sat down and it was back to an empty dancefloor once again and like that for the rest of the night, until I was asked for Mika – Big Girls again, when true to form, the whole crowd got up and danced, then promptly  sat down again once the song had finished. This happened a couple of times more,