my sheryl story

 

ok, well, it all started when i heard the tune 'a change' on the radio. at the time i was only 14 and hardly ever bought music as i was skint. I was more of a 'listen to it on the radio till you get bored with it' sort of person. It was being played every now and then and i liked it, i thought it was cool, i also saw the video to it (the soon to be re-made original video) and found it funny although i didnt really pay much attention to it.

I really would have gone out and bought it, but as i said i didnt have the money and i soon forgot about it. At the end of that summer my cousin came to stay with me for a weekend and brought a collection of his cds with him. I looked through these cds and saw that he had 'a change' by sheryl crow, i immediately remembered it and rushed to put it on my cd player. The next day i new i had to get it cos i really liked it, so when we went into london to shop i went to HMV to see if they still had a copy. Luckily they did and I bought a single which stated to have 'a change', 'everyday is a winding road', 'cant cry anymore' and 'leaving las vegas' on it. When we got home i played it and to my amazement it had completely different songs on it. Instead of 'cant cry anymore', there was 'if it makes you happy' and 'hard to make a stand' on it. Id heard these songs on the radio before and liked them but i never knew they were by the same person.

I played that cd excessivly for ages, much to the annoyance to my family. I loved it. At the time the much publicised 007 film 'Tommorow never dies' and i heard sheryl's song had been chose as the theme. I heard it and it sent shivers down my spine, it was yummy. so i rushed out and bought it and again much to the annoyance of my family i played it excessivly. It was coming up to Christmas so I asked to have 'Sheryl Crow' bought as a present for me, and my family obliged and when i listened to it it was SO cool. My parents, noticing i really liked her stuff, offered to take me to her '97 tour, and foolishly i said no because a) I wasnt a massive fan yet and b) i didnt really want to go with my parents, something which i now regret.

Anyway, one day i was just thinking and a song came to my head, it was 'all i wanna do'. Suddenly something clicked in my mind and i remembered when it was released and that it was sung by sheryl crow. i remembered it being a huge hit at the time and i really liked it loads but id forgotten about it and paid no attention to who it was by. I was already a fan of sheryl just by listening to the single so i looked up info on her on the interenet and found that 'all i wanna do' was from her first album 'tuesday night music club'. so i set about trying to find it so i could buy it. it took me a while as i follishly kept looking in the wrong place for it, but eventually i found it and i was well happy, so i bought it, took it home and played it. I didnt like it as much as 'Sheryl Crow' and i didnt like all the songs but i still thought it was really great.

By now i was a huge fan and i searched out info on her on the internet and met other fans. after a long while i heard that she was releasing a new single from her new album. i barely heard it once before i went out and bought 'my favourite mistake'. it was so beautiful, i loved it. a couple of weeks later i was sitting at my computer typing, when i heard 'my favourite mistake' being played on TV, my ears pricked up and i paid close attention, it turned out it was an advertisement for her new album to be released the next day, and guess what, the very next day i went and bought it, brought it home and again fell in love with it. I was such a huge fan of sheryls by now and id joined her unofficial mailing list and met other fans which was cool.

A little while later, a friend of mine who liked sheryl crow told me that shed just bought tickets to a sheryl crow concert. I hadnt heard anything about this concert so i was shocked and i really wanted to get some tickets but because I didnt know when theyd started selling tickets i didnt know how many were left or whatever and i didnt want to go on my own so i was desperately trying to organise people to go with! I dropped hints to my parents because christmas was coming up but they made no sign that they were going to get them. However, christmas came and they had bought me tickets and i was so happy i could have screamed. Id organised people to go with and i was just impatiently waiting for over a month before the concert arrived. When it did i was so excited, i went to wembley and queued up and went inside. I immediately headed for the merchandise stand but the t-shirt and poster i wanted had sold out so i went for the next best thing, a long sleeved tight t-shirty thing (which i later discovered was a womans top yet i still wear it!). Anyways we went into the concert and got our seats and they were pretty damn cool ones too. I enjoyed that concert so much - IT ROCKED and i danced and sang my heart out. As we left there was a man selling huge promotional posters for 'anything but down' outside for £3, so i bought one and took it home and its now on my bedroom wall!

Since then, ive just been sitting around awaiting a next sheryl thing to come up. Im desperately wanting to see 'the minus man' in which sheryl plays a small short part of an asmathic junkie pleading to be killed. Also recently shes released a cover of Sweet Child Of MIne by Guns N Roses.. i personally dont think that it was a song that should have been covered and her attempt could have been better, but i dont hold it against her cos no one is perfect!!! Im also waiting for christmas when i recieve Sheryl's live album *yay* with loads of cool oldie rockers ;)