I think of Eugene O Neills words when I think about Gerry Rafferty a beautiful songwriter who wrote upbeat groovy tunes. Like many of my favourite artists he was a perfectionist socially awkward who had been disillusioned by the music business and its pernicious grip on your spirit after legal...
Smokey wrote Being With You for Kim but his manager persuaded him to record it himself and he ended up in the No 2 spot behind Kim’s monster hit. Ray Charles – Them That Got 1962 Always a winner Ray Charles had it all when it comes to an encyclopedia of music talent, barrelhouse,...
A year later, Master Baravilala heard that Lagani was enrolled at Queen Victoria School and wrote to him, asking if he was interested in singing a number he had composed back home in Levuka. Lagani sent the letter to his father in Nadi and the OK was given. So began their lon...
On the first anniversary of the baby’s death, Cannonwrote on Instagram, “I can’t believe it’s been a year already since the toughest day of my life occurred. Such a painful anniversary. Losing a child has to be the heaviest, most dark and depressive experiences that I will never ge...
Jeremiah. Sigh. At times, I’m even angry that God asked me to write something so personal that nobody would be willing to read. The writing was guttural, reliving it and trying to detail what nobody outside of depression understands. So, there it is…my heartache. Posted on this ‘li...
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“True Companion” or Sarah McLaughlin sing nearly any song she wrote, but it’s because they touch me so deeply that I would never want them gone for good. I wonder at what point my ten-year old fourth graders will turn that corner with music when it becomes all-consuming and their ...
Take a few deep breaths, right now, Love, and pull out a piece of paper or a journal, if you have one. I want you to read over what you wrote me and then I invite you to answer this question: What would a person who loves herself do? Really listen for the answer—imagine anothe...
an intervention that ended badly when you declared yourself “the greatest rock-and-roll star of all time” and wrote them anyway. So we ended up with an entire verse about sitting down in a chair—in the middle of a song about aging, which must be very hard for you at 24 years old...
“London is an amazing place,” he wrote to his mother. “One is constantly discovering new quarters; this woman lives in a most beautiful dilapidated old square, which I had never heard of before; a square in the middle of town, near King’s Cross station, but with spacious old ...