This title track of the classic album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road follows up my post from last month of the opening of the record – Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road above just about…
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The AnkiDroid Collection (Part 14) – Ancient Egypt, Einstein & Spartans
Ankidroid additions related to Science, History and Philosophy. More information about Anki can be found in this article. The Ancient Egypt Mythological Story The following ancient Egyptian mythological story was referred to many times in Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules…
Goodbye Girl (1978) – David Gates
I wrote about this song back in November, 2019 because it premiered in the hit movie of the same name and is one of my mother’s favourites – Goodbye Girl. I loved this song from the moment it played at…
In Commemoration of ANZAC Day (25th April)…
Yesterday, after my children finished playing Tennis at their club here in Bogota, I returned home to open my ‘Reader’ page on WordPress and found Bruce Goodman’s solemn tribute to the ANZAC fallen – ANZAC Day 2022. It’s a beautiful…
Going Home (2012) – Leonard Cohen
44 years after the release of his first album, today’s track Going Home opens Leonard Cohen’s (at age 77) 12th studio album Old Ideas which has featured here prominently. This track is in polar contrast with the track which ends…
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) – Stephen Zaillian (Friday’s Finest)
The American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer has featured a lot here at Observation Blogger. One of my favourite documentaries – Bobby Fischer Against The World was reviewed here at Friday’s Finest back in January this year. Today’s movie Searching for Bobby…
Going Home (1983) – Mark Knopfler
This is one of my favourite tracks by Mark Knopfler, but it’s purely instrumental made for the above movie Local Hero, which is a really good movie by the way. I must revisit it and review on ‘Friday’s Finest‘. I…
Of Love and Other Demons (1995) – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian novelist and considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th Century, especially in the Spanish Language. In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature. García Márquez started as a journalist…
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Goin’ to Acapulco (1967) – Bob Dylan
Goin’ to Acapulco is the first song to feature here from The Basement Tapes recorded in 1967 by Bob Dylan and the Band and released in 1975. After Dylan was injured in a motorcycle accident in July 1966, four members…
Gladiador – Asa de Aguia
Someone on the Delta Force: Black Hawk Down multiplayer game recommended this song to me some years ago and I was always impressed by it. I went on to explore others by this group and liked them as well, but…
