Day 86: Twisting by the pool, Dire Straits
Time for some more Dire Straits I feel. Something to make you all feel jolly.
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Day 84: Burning down the house, Talking Heads
Don’t try this at home folks. A great song to dance to.
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Day 53 (album cover 8 of 10): Sunday bloody Sunday, U2
What an iconic album cover and an equally iconic song. “This song is not a rebel song, this is Sunday Bloody Sunday“
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Day 44: 99 Luftballons, Nena
I end my one hit wonder strange song theme with this very sobering offering. This song was written at a time when we feared the world could end in a nuclear holocaust. Here is its background (taken from Wikipedia): The lyrics of the original German version tell a story: 99 balloons are set free and
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Day 40: Forty by U2
OK as we hit the day 40 milestone thought I might as well take a break from my one hit wonders theme and share something fitting for today. “This is forty sing it with me……How long to sing this song?“
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Day 23 (Easter Sunday): The Prodigal Son Suite, by Keith Green
I had a friend at University of Sydney who first played me this amazing piano piece on a piano which at the time was located in one of the student Union buildings (Manning). It retells the famous parable that Jesus told of the prodigal son who repents and is welcomed home by his father.
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