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I've been lucky enough to be blessed with the good fortune to enjoy & appreciate great music from every genre and type...love Mozart, Beethoven, Handel and all the classical greats. Saw Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne a few years ago, magical stuff.
A month or so ago one afternoon I was walking along Fernhead Road W9 and a lovely girl with what sounded like a soft Jamaican accent - I guessed from rural Jamaica rather than the city and maybe hadn’t been in London long. She asked me where Beef-hoven Street was. I said do you mean Beethoven Street? She looked again at her phone and said quizzically Beef-hoven? So I laughed out loud the melody of the famous four-note riff of Beethoven’s 5th. She looked at me even more puzzled. I thought in my head the girl’s obviously never heard of Beethoven she’s not going to understand your clever-arse reference. This is not cultural snobbery. The music from Studio One in Jamaica for me is as potent, if not more so, as the 18th century European Classical Baroque Romanticists etc. So I said take the first left, bear right after the shops and you’re there. And she said thank you darling. And no I didn’t get her phone number.
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Next time you're walking down my strasse, pop in for a cuppa mate!
Ere Steve, I bought the first Caravan album the other day. Pretty bloody good it is too.
Glad I listened to you bang on about them for 15 years.
Good to see Caravan getting a mention, their albums are going for a fiver a pop on Amazon with bonus tracks. I particularly like In The Land Of Grey And Pink. Richard Sinclair featured in another early seventies band - Hatfield And The North who were in the same mould as Caravan but more intricate. Still featuring Richard's very English voice. Great stuff.
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