XTC, December 1980

The day of John Lennon's death

Everyone remembers where they were the day John Lennon got killed. I’d been commissioned to go to a nightclub called Rotters (which was as it sounds) to see XTC. It was a relief to get away from the banalities on the television, but it was a bit of a weird night.

I wish I could remember which Beatles song the band chose to play, and what they might have …