'When The World Knows Your Name' - Deacon Blue (1989)
When I was 20 years old I accepted an offer to travel from Kent in the south of England to work in a small hotel in the tiny village of Plockton in the Scottish Highlands. It was September 1989 and was the first time I'd lived away from home before and it was all a bit strange and disorientating. Thankfully I soon made friends - especially a local girl called Dawn who also worked in the hotel. Her parents owned a number of holiday cottages in the village and she used to help out with cleaning them. One day, after our shift making toast and serving breakfast I went to help her out with cleaning one of the cottages. She put on one of her CDs - 'When The World Knows Your Name' by a rock band from Glasgow called Deacon Blue. I'd vaguely heard of them before, mostly for their weirdly-titled single 'Chocolate Girl' [ 'He calls her the chocolate girl / Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her / She knows she's the chocolate girl / Cause she...