I was telling Studly Doright about my recent blog posts dealing with songs featuring younger men in relationships with older women. He’d never heard the term May-December romance. “That’s us,” he said, when I finished my explanation. “That’s not at all us,” I countered. “Sure it is. You’re way older than I am.” To be […]
December-December Romance — Praying for Eyebrowz
This song, written by guitarist and vocalist Justin Hayward, is from the Moody Blues’ Seventh Sojourn album, released in 1972.
To my mind, this is one of the most beautifully written and produced songs that I know — and so underrated.
What is more, its message is very poignant for our times, a time of change, where new horizons are literally opening up for us, so we can leave all our present nightmares behind. Godspeed to us all.
Copyright Francis 2020
A review of the first classic album by the Grateful Dead in 1970 – Workingman’s Dead.
Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (1970) — The Ultimate Music Library
I have loved Clannad for many years, the family of musicians from County Donegal in the north west of the Irish Republic. They are most notable for singing folk songs in their native Irish tongue, though not exclusively.
This song comes from their 1987 album ‘Sirius’, probably one of their most ‘commercial’ albums, with some really gorgeous tunes, including this one, ‘Turning Tide’; it speaks volumes to me now all these years later — especially the symbolism and imagery, so appropriate to what is going on in our world at present. Take note of the lyrics.
Copyright Francis 2020
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Girls! Girls! Girls! -“Veronica”- Elvis Costello. Elvis Costello is another one of those artists- like a Neil Young or a Bob Dylan- an album oriented artist-not a singles artist. Elvis has had only two Top 40 hits in the United States- “Veronica” being his biggest hit #19 in 1989 off of his Spike album. This […]
GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! “VERONICA”- ELVIS COSTELLO — slicethelife
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