This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is ‘gospel’. That’s a difficult one for me, as I do not have an iota of belief in any supreme or supernatural being. Better just leave it at that. Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of lifeEnd over end, neither left nor to rightStraight through the heart…
Song Lyric Sunday this week is all about the sweet stuff – sugar, candy, chocolate and so on. If it could ever be said that there are deep cuts from albums by The Beatles, this little confection from The White Album could qualify. Produced in homage to the ‘flapper’ style of the twenties and thirties,…
Maintaining last week’s sartorial theme, today’s Song Lyric Sunday is all about footwear and led me to this tale of romantic angst from Bob Dylan’s third studio album, ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’, released in January 1964. As with ZZ Top, I also saw Dylan at the old Wembley Arena back in the nineties. He…
One-Liner Wednesday 4 August 2021
I’m playing along again this week with the Weekly Song Challenge hosted by Laura at Lauravent69 Post a video of a song that makes you think of your youth. ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ by Stealer’s Wheel is forever associated in my head with revising for my final University exams in June 1973. In…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt from Jim at newepicauthor is the rather downbeat (nothing wrong with that) ‘Crying/Sadness’. This is the first song that came into my head. It’s by The Yardbirds, one of the seminal sixties UK rock bands who, at various times, could boast Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and, in this instance,…
“I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does.” – Oscar Wilde: ‘De Profundis’ – – – – – – – – Written while incarcerated in Reading Gaol. You really should read it.One-Liner Wednesday 24 October 2018
“I don’t believe in ageing; I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun”. – Virginia Woolf – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 10 October 2018
“There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world, but no ruined stones” – Hugh McDiarmid (1892-1978), Scottish poet, journalist and essayist – – – – – – – – – – – One-Liner Wednesday 15 August 2018
“You and I have memories/longer than the road that lies ahead” – ‘Two Of Us’, by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon & McCartney), from the album ‘Let It Be’ – – – – – – – Last week’s One-Liner was about the future, so in the interests of editorial balance here’s one about the…
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