I lived on an estate on the East side of England from being born.
All I knew and loved, apart from football, was Star Wars.
We didn’t get to go to cinema, but rented the videos from the video van that came round to our square once a week.
Star Wars was around the time of The A Team, Knight Rider and Airwolf. But Star Wars trumped them all.
Still love the original trilogy today. Don’t like the prequels and hate the sequels. But back in the days of Return of the Jedi and getting a few figures and toys for Christmas… well, I feel nostalgic for it.
At the time, Star Wars meant everything. It was my life. My first digital watch had R2 and Threepio on it. The memory of staring at it in school assembly when I was 5 years old is still there.
Thanks, George. You made a little boy very happy.