Candle in the Wind is one of those songs that feels to me like it’s been around forever. Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote it in 1973 as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe, though it always reached beyond her story.…
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Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word (1968) – Joan Baez
I first heard Joan Baez perform Bob Dylan’s song Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word in the 1967 documentary of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England – Don’t Look Back. From 3:00 minutes in the second video you can hear…
Love Dream (Liebesträume No. 3) – Franz Liszt
Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat major (Liebestraum – German for Dreams of Love) is the second piece to feature here from the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Liebestraum is a set of three solo piano works published in 1850 by Liszt based on poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand…
22/5 – 28/5/23 – The Grievance Studies Affair Special Edition
Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. ‘Our goal is to publish as many papers as we can that are unbelievably sophisticated parodies, and we are going to publish these in…
Tagged with: grievance studies, helen pluckrose, james lindsay, Peter Boghossian
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Love Buzz (1969) – Shocking Blue
I was telling Bernie at his blog article on the (2015) Steve Jobs movie that California Dreamin’ as seen in Dragon ‘The Bruce Lee Story’ is the ants’ pants, because it demonstrates how delicate and fraught the whole notion ‘a…
Love and Mercy (1988) – Brian Wilson
The biographical Brian Wilson – Beach Boys movie by the same name brought me to this song. The original 80’s drenched synth recording of Love and Mercy left me cold, but his later renditions such as the one below I…
Lost Without You (2003) – Delta Goodrum (Darren Hayes Cover)
The Australian singer-songwriter Delta Goodrum made her mark with Lost Without You, but the version I want to focus on today is from Darren Hayes. Delta was the Pop Diva of Australian music in the early 2000’s…then she was diagnosed…
Lost in the Dream (2014) – The War on Drugs
Lost in the Dream is the 5th song to appear here from the American band The War on Drugs. This song was the first which hooked me and is the title track from their third studio album released in 2014.…
Losing Your Way in the Rain (1979) – Mike Batt (Ft. Colin Blunstone)
I was writing just a few days ago the post about Christina Perri’s Bluebird and how underrated she is as a singer – songwriter. I had the same battle in the 80’s about Dylan. Now we come to the undisputed…
Lord, I Hope This Day is Good (1981) – Don Williams
Lord, I Hope This Day is Good is the second song to appear here in the space of a month from my favourite classic-country music artist Don Williams. His previous entry Listen to the Radio was the first song that…
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