Groovus interruptus

In January 1973, Sweet—then The Sweet—released the single “Little Willy” in the United States. A short time afterward my family bought a copy. A short time after that my older brother sat on the 45 and broke it.

Whether he did this intentionally or not is up for continual debate in my mind’s court of law. I was a kid, he was a few years older. I think we were probably horsing around down in the rec room, and he inadvertently threw himself onto the couch where sat the prize record. (Why we’d toss...