Song Lyric Sunday: Sun – ‘Fat Old Sun’

Seeing this week’s theme of ‘Sun’ took me straight to this song by Pink Floyd, and also straight back to June 1973. I had finished my final exams and was occupying the peculiar status known – at British universities any way – as ‘graduand’. That’s the strange no-man’s land between being an undergraduate and a…

Song Lyric Sunday: Forgiveness – ‘Please Forgive Me’

As soon as I opened up this week’s Song Lyric Sunday prompt and saw ‘Forgiveness’ I knew exactly what song to post here. GIven that I even name-checked this song just a few weeks ago in the first instalment of my Music Lexicon project, what else could it be but Bryan Adams’ ‘Please Forgive Me’?…

My Music Lexicon: B is for Beatles (and Beefheart)

C’mon now: I was born and grew up on Merseyside. My age reached double figures in the early sixties. The B in my Music Lexicon could only possibly be The Beatles. There again, it’s pretty much beyond me how anyone could fail to pick out The Beatles in any review of their popular musical tastes…

Song Lyric Sunday: Parent/Child – ‘I Will Take You Home’

As soon as I saw this week’s theme – the parent/child relationship – two possibilities sprang to my mind. However, as I featured John Lennon only a couple of weeks ago, ‘Mother’ was out. Plus it’s not exactly life-affirming (although obviously always worth a listen). So it had to be this. Brent Mydland was the…

Song Lyric Sunday: Cold – ‘I Am A Rock’

Helen’s latest Song Lyric Sunday prompt over at This Thing Called Life One Word At A Time was inspired by the weather. Well, it’s been a bit chilly over here in France for the past few days, and although we’ve missed the worst of it, yesterday’s -5°C was plenty cold enough for us, thank you…

My Music Lexicon: Introduction

Isn’t it handy that there are 26 letters in the alphabet and 52 weeks in the year? If my arithmetic is correct (it is), that means one letter for every fortnight. So here’s the plan. Every two weeks, working my way through the alphabet, I’m going to publish a post about a group or artiste that…