Category: Music
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Niagara Falls
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“As long as Niagara FallsAs long as Gibraltar stands‘Til Hell freezes overI’ll always be your man” I haven’t visited Niagara Falls since I was a child and Eva has never been there, so it’s been on our “to do” list for a while. We were taking care of three cats…
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Thank You for the Music
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“Thank you for the music, the songs I’m singingThanks for all the joy they’re bringingWho can live without it? I ask in all honestyWhat would life beWithout a song or a dance, what are we?So I say thank you for the musicFor giving it to me” – Benny Andersson /…
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Tea and Theatre
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“Lean on my shoulder nowThis story is doneIt’s getting colder nowA thousand songsStill smolder nowWe play them as oneWe’re older nowAll of us sadAll of us freeBefore we walk from this stageTwo of usWill you have some teaAt the theatre with me” -by Pete Townshend (the Who) – 2006 Many…
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Bleecker Street
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“This is life on Bleecker StreetWhere the tourists shuffle to a boom box beatOld men sit and stare at their feetThis is life on Bleecker StreetAll kinds of people come from who knows whereAll kinds of people who knows how much they care” As a fan of Richard Bush and…
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Lunchtime Fun in my Golden Years
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In 2023, I set an unusual goal for myself- to treat a different musician to lunch every week. I saw plenty of bands in my younger days but never considered the possibility of actually meeting or getting to know the musicians. After retiring, I began attending so many shows I…
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Rockaria
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“Well, we were reelin’ and rockin’ all through the nightYeah, we were rockin’ at the opera house until the break of lightAnd the orchestra was playin’ all Chuck Berry’s greatest tunesAnd the singers in the chorus all got off on them singin’ bluesAnd as the night grew older everybody was…
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Let There Be Music
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“It’s so hard to keep on smillin’when people try to make you frownBut, we’re all in this togetherSo why run one another downYou know we can’t expect our problemsto grow wings and fly awaySo fight the fight just as hard as you canwhen it’s time for you to playLet there…
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Time Waits for No One
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“Yes, star crossed in pleasure the stream flows on byYes, as we’re sated in leisure, we watch it flyAnd time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for meAnd time waits for no one, and it won’t wait for meTime can tear down a building or destroy a woman’s…
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1973 – I Never Knew Me A Better Time
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“Crocodile Rocking is something shockingWhen your feet just can’t keep stillI never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will”– Crocodile Rock (Elton John/Bernie Taupin) As a child, I would listen to the radio with my portable cassette player at my side, hitting “record” whenever a song…