The Megastore's sound system dragged my memory back 50 years.
The moment I heard that song again, I was instantly transported back to that magical summer of 1973.
David Bowie singing Time from his hit album Aladdin Sane produced an immediate, embarrassing and slightly discomforting rock hard, raging boner surrounding my crotch area, leaving my trousers somewhat misshapen..
What a trigger!
It felt like everybody was staring at my stiffy. As I stood in the queue at the checkout with the items I'd chosen for my evening meal. I attempted to strategically place my carrier bag to hide my embarrassment.
Once I'd finally managed to successfully negotiate my purchase and make my way outside, I uncomfortably hobbled to my car.
It was quite fortuitous that I had selected a nice dark, secluded area of the car park.
Furiously masturbating into a hastily snatched tissue from my glove compartment, I satisfied my sudden urge for relief.
All the while my mind re-lived the very real sensation that I had felt all those years ago - the first time somebody had had my cock in their mouth.
I sat there in my car -- now flaccid cock in hand -- and I was whisked back all those years ago to the weekend that awakened my first sexual experiences with another person.
It all tied in with the music of the time.
Bowie's Ziggy Stardust was the musical masterpiece of the moment and I was, and still am, a massive fan of all things glam rock.
It was not long since I had turned 18 years of age, and really was still just a confused teenager.
What I loved to do, or thought I was doing, was being outrageous and shocking everybody.
I would wear dark eye make-up. I was small enough at the time to fit easily into women's clothes. All my spare time was spent trawling thrift shops for retro garments.
Up until that point my raging hormones had only ever produced copious amount of semen through self-produced imaginings.
As I sat in my car that evening, which was quite warm for the time of year, memories of the events surrounding Bowie's visit to my hometown started to stiffen my prick once again.
Every male teenager who is negotiating and passing through puberty more or else follows the same pattern. We awaken every morning with an erection that is almost painful. A hopeful, erotically imagined scenario and a minute or two of vigorous pounding produces much stickiness and temporary relief.
That familiar process is practically the law. This daily ritual will I'm sure resonate with about 50% of readers, and greatly amuse the other roughly 50%.
I was an only child. A single product of an Irish, (lapsed) catholic, family, which at the time had caused questions to be asked and tongues to wag. This was not how Irish Catholics behaved!
A single child with a quasi-religious rearing was enough to produce the usual amount of guilt and repression to confuse my sexual awakening.
I had 2 close friends who were not much older than me, and we all really loved the music scene of the time. All the dressing-up, make-up, and outrageous behavior made us feel as though we were rebels, but also part of a tribe.
We all heavily bought into the look, feel and sound of our chosen form of expression. But up until that point, that was all. Never once did we speak of sexual feelings, practices or any deeper analyses of what our young personas were experiencing.
I did catch one of my friends choking his chicken once though. I called at his house one Saturday morning when he was alone. As there was no answer to my knocking on his front door, I went around back.
As I glimpsed through a rear window, I was excited by the spectacle of my friend furiously jerking off. I was transfixed by the size my best friend's rather large penis, which I had never seen before.
Blaring out from his record player was the song Time, from David Bowie's album Aladdin Sane. The section where Bowie sings '...falls wanking to the floor..", was when my friend spectacularly climaxed, spraying an enormous load onto the wall next to him.
I waited for what seemed to be a reasonable amount of time before returning to the front of the house and knocking again.
This time he answered and ushered me in.
I remember us manically commenting on how great we thought Bowie's Aladdin Sane sounded, whilst trying to ignore the clearly visible, massive, glistening semen globules dribbling down the wall. next to us
On the July 20th 1974 David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars, on the final date of their Diamond Dogs tour, played at New York's Maddison Square Gardens. Myself and my 2 best friends managed to secure tickets to see our hero.