No relation to the Grateful Dead’s ‘Terrapin Station’, this is a song written by Syd Barrett, founder member of Pink Floyd, who was born on 6 January 1946, and thus qualifies for the theme of Song Lyric Sunday this week, which is to feature a song by somebody born in this month. The reasons for…
“But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools” This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is all things nautical, and my immediate first thought was this – one of my favourite Jerry ballads by the Grateful Dead. Searching my previous SLS posts I was relieved – indeed, pleasantly surprised…
It seems that I’m to blame for setting the theme for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. This I did by dint of a throwaway reference to the BBC’s iconic ‘serious’ music show, the Old Grey Whistle Test, which was distinguished from others by avoiding ‘pop’ candyfloss and featuring live performances in a stripped-bare studio.…
Thanks to Jim’s very helpful habit of giving us up to a month’s notice of future themes for Song Lyric Sunday, when I was mulling over what to select for last week’s Brit Album of the Year challenge, I was able to see that one of my strongest possibilities – David Bowie, with the (posthumously…
The first thing to say is that the list of winners of the Brit Award for Best British Album looks a lot more respectable than last week’s Best Song category, even if there’s too much (i.e. any) Coldplay for my taste. The 2004 winner was ‘Permission To Land’ by The Darkness. I remember the first…
After a sequence of the finest that the (American) Grammies had to offer, Song Lyric Sunday is focusing on British award winners for the next few weeks, beginning with winners of the Brit Award for Best British Song. My word, but I found some utter drivel in that list when I looked at it: a…
My word, but this is a Song Lyric Sunday challenge that makes me feel old. Jim wants us to furnish him with a song from a winner of the Grammy for Best New Artist. Looking through the list, there could really only be one of more than passing interest for me. Apparently, Jim himself feels…
We’re on a little thread of Grammy Award winners for Song Lyric Sunday at the moment, and this week we must choose something from the list of Record of The Year laureates. Having drawn from Carole King for last week, Paul Simon a couple of weeks earlier, and not being a particular fan of U2…
When I looked at the list of winners of the Grammy Album of the Year Award (an action that I choose to describe as ‘research’) there was, for me, only one standout candidate for my contribution to this week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. It had to be Carole King’s 1971 winner ‘Tapestry’. The fact that…
This week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge is what some Brits (me, anyway) might describe as ‘a bit niche’. We’ve been asked to feature a song by the child of another famous singer. I could think of two straight away: Liza Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland, and Frank Sinatra’s daughter Nancy.. But then, from the depths…
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