This is the first in a series I’ve decided to write about individual songs that have affected me for life in some way or another. If I can figure out how, I’d then like to make it a social site of some kind where others …
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 Tags: 1950s, autobiography, elizabethan serenade, song Category: Articles, Every Song Has a Memory No Comments 
I got a call one day from my friend Carole, asking if we could meet soon. It was the summer of 1978 and I had just come back from Cairo , where I’d been doing TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) with an international …
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I Wasn’t Born …
A freckle-faced boy with big eyes looked out from under his fringe on the front page of the Weekly News . The paper was anything but news, a predictable menu of human-interest stories, recipes and doctor’s advice, which had a regular Thursday …
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Some thoughts on songwriting …
It’s just magic! It feels that way anyway. Writers may disagree about the proportions of inspiration and perspiration that go into making a song, but everyone recongnises that leap of the heart when you think ‘Hey, this is actually …
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Step this way – How Mike Heron opened the door for me
A review of Mike Heron’s Smiling Men with Bad Reputations previously published in the Incredible String Band fanzine Be Glad.
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