Article: Na, na, na, that's the sort of thing my Granny sings; If you only... get one song stuck in your head.(News)

Byline: LEO CULLEN

WE WERE bus conductors in London, Lawless and I, that summer of 1968. Coming off our shifts some evenings we went on to places, without bothering to change out of our uniforms.

As that summer grew hotter, we favoured fatigues, khakicoloured light wear; they were passable we thought, almost trendy. One afternoon we jumped on the 134 into Oxford Street to see the matinee of Joseph Strick's film, Ulysses.

We sat in the midst of a puzzled audience right through the film, recognising our own home city of Dublin.

But that was the day that Lawless from Cork fell into an explosion of the titters. He had only been able take ...

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