I'll protect you from the hooded claw,..

..keep the vampires from your door

So Frankie said, in the days before Holly became HIV positive. This evening I heard a posh version, sung in Italian by a male classical quartet. It was good enough, but synapses fired in my head. I knew the lyrics, the english lyrics, without having to look them up. Once upon a time this song reverberated near constantly in shared house and was played until the record (yes, a vinyl record) wore out. Gay or straight Frankie had a appeal beyond the manufactured gloss - disco (well strictly HiNRG) but with a trite message and expansive production values. Not much from that era has aged well, IMAO, but Frankie, well especially 'The Power of Love' - it still stirs.

And you thought I didn't have a soul.