I remember a Donna Summer "I feel Love" advert for them as well " I feel lo oooo ooooo is, I feel" sort of one but cant be sure if I'm making it up or not.
I dont think it affected us at all mate. no matter what we were going through, at that age, all we did every day was play out. Then come home for tea and bed.
I remember we had an "uncle" joe who used to do our leccy for us. After we'd had it cut off, he came round and sorted it again. One day when me mam was at work i was talking at the dorr with a couple of my mates when the leccy man came round. Is your leccy workin? Not wantin to be embarassed, or even understanding the trouble it would cause then, I said yeah, and turned the lights on and off to show him. He said nice one and off he went. I told my mam when i got home and all hell broke loose. funny as fuck looking back on it as I remember every detail of running up the stairs with my mam screaming at me and smacking my arse along the way :-)
I also remember writing "Billy lives here" all over the front of our house in thick crayon. I think it was to impress some girl. Anyway I went back after we left, must have been about 4 years later and you could still see it there. The letters were about a foot high each. Think I got a good smack for that as well.
I was tempted to try and get in touch with my old man. I could do it quite easily really, but never got round to it. I think you're right about the fact he'd have a few good stories to tell. Something I could laugh along with. I certainly dont hold anything against him, and the last time I saw him, probably 20 years ago now, we had a good chat. He said the usual "You'll always be my son" stuff. I said, "You're really just some feller I know a little bit". I think my sister missed having him around more than me. But I remember some escapades with him even when I was a young kid.
I know it wont go down well probably on here but I'm glad we moved away. Dont get me wrong I still love Liverpool, and still refer to it as "When I go home for the match" etc. Fuck, I call the Chaser my local :-( But at that time I think I was in serious danger of losing my way so to speak. Even then, we were getting mixed up in some stuff that could easily have had very bad outcomings. I'd say 70% of the lads I knocked around with have either done time, are dealing drugs, are addicts, or are part of crews that are pretty serious now. I think even as a kid back then, even though we got up to some low level stuff, i had a pretty decent moral compass and was never entirely happy at how the future looked or my part in it. Easy to say in hindsight though eh.