Del Shannon as he was around the time of Runaway

Mike's Pith & Wind - Del boy
I’ve always been the oldest. I suppose it started when I just happened to be the first born and therefore the older brother, then continued when I found that I was always the oldest in my class at school. My birthday falls as smack dab in the middle of the year as it’s possible to get and I seem to remember that fact played a part in the timing of my initial entry into primary school. Or maybe they simply couldn’t prise me off my mother’s legs. In any case, I was the oldest in my first year, (but by no means the brightest), and I was always the oldest thereafter.
Which is somewhat of a feat given the number of schools my brother and I went to until we finally lobbed at the forbidding gates of Christ’s College back in 1960. Our mother was a relief teacher and we tended to follow her around from school to school in our primary school days. I think this led to our feeling like perpetual outsiders, with prospective friends falling by the wayside at a dizzying rate as we were whisked off to yet another school half way through the year.
Although there’s a difference between being the oldest and just being old, I think that always being the oldest in the room has inured me somewhat to the sobering reality of being past my prime and sliding at gathering pace towards oblivion. At certain times of the day I wonder if I’m already there..
Anyway, it’s no surprise to me at least that I’m the oldest of the old on this Morning of the Earth read more

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