Jeremy Vine

This is a very, very precious piece of paper.

Okay.

So my daughter, when she turned 18, said to me, I want to have a tattoo.

And I said, well, that's not happening.

And she said, well, actually, Dad, when you're 18, you can actually make decisions about your life.

So I can have a tattoo.

So I said, yeah, but it's still not happening.

So she said, what I want to do is I want to have a Smith's lyric.

And I want to have half of it, Dad, and you have the other half.

So I said, let's do it tomorrow.

Of course I did.

This is the incredible thing, Dilly.

The Smiths were actually 1983 to 1986.

So I was 18 in 1983.

And their first album had a song called Still Ill on it.

And it had this line, For there are brighter sides to life and I should know because I've seen them but not very often.

So here's my daughter aged 18 and she's listening to the same song.

Do you know how that makes me feel?

It's so incredible to the point where when I go to bed kind of early and she's still up and she's playing music upstairs in the room above that's keeping me awake, but I don't care because it's the music I was listening to when I was 18.

And I don't even know how it's happened.