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Instead of our weekly survey of the top-10 hits of the 1970s, this week s column will compile Retro Roundup s all-time favourite songs by major artists. Elvis Presley-So much to choose from the greatest rock/pop singer of all time, but I m sticking with the standalone 1971 single It s Only Love in its hard to find mono 45 RPM mix. Elvis s vocal performance is far from his most rousing, but the song itself and the instrumentation are what make it my first choice. The mono single mix sounds tougher as the rhythm section is brought more up to the fore than in the stereo mix. ....
“It’s dangerous being a prophet; especially in times of upheaval.” Episode two, late December 2020 from The Stand, CBS All Access, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name and spoken by a kind, good, pandemic survivor.
More than half a century ago, about when President Kennedy was shot, my baby mouth called out “Nan-nan” in the night, because I could not pronounce “Grandmother” and because my mother was, well, ill-equipped for the job. Nan-nan smelled of lavender. She adored me. And I, her. She raised my mother in London during the Blitz. I was, rather appropriately, born on August 29th in the Year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Three. The 29th of August, in our Anglican Calendar, is the Feast of the Beheading of John, The Baptist – the “Prodromou.” The “Fore-runner.” ....
Seamus Heaney celebrated hope and not old divisions Choice of poet as face of centenary of North has proved controversial Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 01:24 Susan McKay Seamus Heaney: He hated what the division within the North did to people: “open minds, as open as a trap”. Photograph: Pat Langan
No good was ever going to come of this. One of Seamus Heaney’s most intense preoccupations as a poet and essayist was the anguishing complexity of identity in this divided island. Now the British government has used his portrait, alongside a photograph of Mary Peters, to market its celebrations of the centenary of Northern Ireland. ....