Posted by admin on 21 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: meanings, news, tribute
I have to say that I love this idea. An artist in Saginaw, Michigan, has been decorating the town with lines from Simon & Garfunkel’s “America”. “We drove through the city and tried to find areas that symbolized abandonment: the broken railroad track, the empty school,” Eric Schantz told ABCNews. In one poignant note, he [...]
Posted by admin on 05 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: meanings, RIP, tribute
Image via Wikipedia There is much talk at the moment about the George Harrison “track” that was featured on British radio recently. The story is that Beatle biographer Hunter Davies came across a scrap of paper with some Harrison lyrics, “Silence (Is Its Own Reply)”, speculated to be about his relationship with John Lennon. During [...]
Posted by admin on 20 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: tribute
As I was spending some time in Normandy recently, I couldn’t resist the temptation to visit the last home of the legendary French scriptwriter, lyricist and poet Jacques Prévert. I have a copy of his book “Paroles” somewhere around the house. I am also a huge fan of his films such as “Quai des brumes” [...]
Posted by admin on 06 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: news, tip, tribute
Superbus – Heart of Glass – Live -Generation 80Uploaded by Channel_Zero A perfect pop band (Superbus) playing a perfect pop tune (“Heart of Glass”). It doesn’t get much better than this on a rainy Friday. But what about the words?
Posted by admin on 02 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: meanings, RIP, tribute
Reading the lyrics of “The Saints are Coming”, it’s no surprise that U2 chose it as a song to celebrate the re-opening of New Orleans’ Superdome with Green Day. The song, written by singer Richard Jobson and guitarist Stuart Adamson of Scottish punk group The Skids, made an impression on the Dublin band as it [...]
Posted by admin on 04 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: meanings, tribute
I thought I’d have a look at the lyrics of Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back�. I did, and there’s not much there! It probably ranks as one of the songs with the fewest individual words in the charts. But so what? When I listen to the track and read the words, I keep hearing the ghosts [...]
Posted by admin on 04 May 2006 | Tagged as: tribute
This sounds real interesting. One of France’s most distinguished chansonniers was George Brassens, a man that sang gentle songs with an acoustic guitar. It turns out that he had many fans in a very unlikely location: Africa. Cameroon singer Kristo Numpuby is bringing it all back home when he appears this weekend in Pierrefitte near [...]