Aged Raver on 25/1/2022 at 06:31

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I haven't read any Virginia Woolf but apparently she wrote in a style called stream of consciousness and it seems that Reina del Cid’s lyrics are relevant to the last "Ah" (she’s got a degree in English Literature, which is more than I have).

[CENTER] "… men in overcoats
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[CENTER] I hope the water’s deep”

[video=youtube;LoTWfC0BKqE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoTWfC0BKqE&list=RDGMEMc6JZQrQ__ROET3gGdz-Trw&start_radio=1[/video]

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I’ve been watching a lot of Reina videos, some light-hearted, some serious, some perhaps have concealed anger, with good reason, as in this Peggy Seeger song. Unlikely she knows of Vickers or Jimmy Young (Brit institutions that no longer exist) but she treats the 1971 lyrics with respect. I witnessed a similar situation as described in the song, first-hand in the early seventies. (Alert YouTubers spotted a visual nod to “(https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rosie+the+rivetter&atb=v167-5&iax=images&ia=images) Rosie the Riveter”).

[CENTER]“She’s smart for a woman. I wonder how she got that way”.
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[CENTER] [video=youtube;m7_jhpvsFrM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_jhpvsFrM&list=RDm7_jhpvsFrM[/video]

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I don’t enjoy every single thing they do, and YouTube is always ready to suggest others who do similar, but I love these two women. A lot.
[CENTER] “All you can do, is do what you must,
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[CENTER] You do what you must do, and you do it well”
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[CENTER] (Toni in their van “Morrison”)

[video=youtube;fmw-EWVmolc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmw-EWVmolc&list=RDGMEMc6JZQrQ__ROET3gGdz-Trw[/video]

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[CENTER] Huge repertoire of covers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlLdqNxTrJM&list=PLD4X50B3_ot0jNjmGtS2--1DzgkSmt3Ku) Garth Brooks, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35iS73woRdI&list=PLD4X50B3_ot0jNjmGtS2--1DzgkSmt3Ku) Everlys, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLIBbQVhoDA&list=PLD4X50B3_ot0jNjmGtS2--1DzgkSmt3Ku) Beatles, etc. some with funny outtakes.

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Edit: I know little about the Bloomsbury Group and after seeing"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" decades ago I assumed she must have been American. I was born at Lewes where people do indeed “roam the downs”, and to my shame, only now find out Virginia died at Lewes, just before I was born.

With Conan Doyle, Kipling, and buckets of Sussex history coming out of my ears (except mine aren’t that sharp) I watched the above Woolf video three times, not hearing the lyrics, totally hooked on the rocking tune and, true to male stereotype, fantasising how it would feel to be Toni's Fender Stratocaster. :tsktsk:

[CENTER] (Sorry Reina/Toni. Taking licence from John Betjeman, you understand, about (https://allpoetry.com/The-Olympic-Girl) a girl playing tennis
"Would I were her racquet, press'd
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[CENTER] with hard excitement to her breast")[/CENTER]

Anyway, Happy Birthday Virginia. 25 Jan 1882 (London) - 28 Mar 1941 (Lewes).
Perhaps I’ll visit your house in April, only 12 miles from here. :rolleyes:

Aged Raver on 25/1/2022 at 10:01

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Beautiful :thumb:
Only a week old. I'll have to look up their other stuff.

Gray on 30/1/2022 at 03:50

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Having said that, before that date, my brother very kindly bought me a ticket to go see the Pet Shop Boys live. I used to listen to them a lot in the 80s, and learned to play keyboards by picking apart their songs, but I've never seen them live. His present for my 50th birthday was to go see them, with him coming to visit, him living about 1000 miles away in a different country. I can't honestly say I've thought about them much since about 1993, but it was a very sweet gesture, and now I'm quite looking forward to it, if nothing else to see a band I've never seen, with a supposedly spectacular live show, and see them with one of my favourite people, he's both a good friend and a brother. I count myself very lucky to have him in my life.

[video=youtube;wDe60CbIagg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe60CbIagg[/video]



I just hope Covid doesn't fuck this up again as well. Everybody should get vaccinated.

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Thinking of my brother, he was a minor international rock star at one point, touring Europe and South America several times. He's the tall thin one with the twitchy shoulders.

[video=youtube;RjepM1O6Rnw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjepM1O6Rnw[/video]

Neb on 1/2/2022 at 19:49

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[video=youtube;wQ-So8S-29M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-So8S-29M[/video]

Gray on 4/2/2022 at 06:42

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As a very grumpy, bitter old cynical bastard, I want to clarify a few details before I express my opinion.

One, I generally hate musicals.
Two, I read the book as a child, and all the related books, and was greatly disappointed by the movie, once I saw it, decades later.
Three: that song is pure magic. Ignore everything else I just said. I love it. There's even an amazing cover by Flesh Quartet that brings even more chills to my delapidated spine. I would send a link, but it's been deleted. Sorry. If you can ever find Fleshquartet ft Freddie Wadling, that's the one that brings a tear to my eye.