Yellow (Coldplay)
When The Thames Froze - Smith and Burrows
Simply the best song for this time of year - melancholia, anger and hope - a great New Year combination!
What a wonderful series of films. I did so enjoy Marty’s take off of the Chuck Berry song in, I think, the first.
I have Max Richter’s recomposition of the Four Seasons, and much else of his output, on LPs. What a clever man Max Richter is!
He sure is
Did anyone listen to the 8-hour performance of Max Richter’s ‘Sleep’ that Radio 3 broadcast from the Wellcome Trust Building (opposite Euston train station) a couple of years ago? DG issued LPs of the full 8-hour extravaganza (now deleted, I think), but I contented myself with a wimpish 2LP set of extracts!
It was a Frank Sinatra night on BBC 4 last night and brilliant footage with Ella Fitzgerald
An absolute legend …so many great songs but always enjoy this… looking back on a life
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Spellbound
Happened across Duran Duran’s cover on their latest album which reminded me how powerful this song is.
I’m not normally a fan of Christmas carols but the we fell in love with Mitch Tambos take on Away in a Manger over the break. The first half is in an indigenous language which just sounds amazing.