Midge Ure – Free socks

So we’ve got this thing in the Navy that you get given free socks. Well, you get given free uniform in the Navy and they give you two variations of socks.

Thin black, thick black, so there’s a thin polyester, never really liked them, they don’t fit well, they don’t do anything for your feet, or you get the thick Pussers black socks we call them.

Thick wool, heavy wool with a cotton mix or whatever, but again your feet sweat in them, your feet are torn to bits. You wear them for 8 weeks at sea; you know about it.

So, that was always the thing. I had a few friends that collected them, and they had a garage box full of them.

He said, “Once I’ve got enough socks up there, I will retire out the Navy and I’ll never need to need socks again, and it was always a running joke in amongst our little group, you know, socks were the thing. “Oh, get me a pair of socks when you’re up there” ‘cos they were free.

You just get them; you didn’t have to account for them.