it made richard feel as if he were thirteen years old again , listening to the top twenty on his best friend 's transistor radio at school during lunch hour , back when pop music had mattered as it only can in your early teenage years : the marquis 's reel was everything he had ever wanted to hear in a song ... a handful of coins chinked onto lear 's coat , thrown by passers-by , who walked on with a smile on their faces and a spring in their step .