So this week my vote for the best video goes to "No Son of Mine" by Genesis. The video captures well the theme of the song about a father rejecting his son because the son walked out on the family some years earlier due to marital conflict. It is clever the way the video combines Phil Collin's singing as the father with the pianist and guitar player in the humble house where the father and son once lived together. The video is also shot in sepia which gives it a long lost ago in time feel.

Just learned the sad news that Sinéad O'Conner has passed away. I remember a few years before Covid struck I read a very sad social media exchange where clearly the singer was suffering terribly with some form of mental anguish. Whether her mental struggles finally claimed her, is anyone's guess but like so many very talented musicians she did not make it to old age. Of course I have already cited Nothing compares to you all the way back in week 12 (day 81) of my original Covid Island Discs.

Going back to Youtube to find other music she published I came across two songs both directly related to Christianity so I wonder now if she did have a faith in Jesus. If so, I hope now he is wiping every tear from her eyes.

Rest In Peace and Goodnight Sinéad.

The first song below is Silent Night and is rather haunting to listen to on the day of her passing. The second song Something Beautiful is from her album theology also a song related to God's promise to his chosen people that he cannot forget them or cease to love them.

Silent Night

Something Beautiful

The next two hits made it big outside Australia. The first one is by Natalie Imbruglia. Finally made it back into the 21^st century briefly. I really like the video to this song, it's clever.

I remember seeing Dudley Moore in this film. The song is better than the movie but sadly this video is clip is pretty knackered.

Yep, I can relate to that.

Well it's the beginning of Christmas week so I thought I would start with this little song. I have a good friend who helped me when I was writing my book The Wormwood Deception and his son has released this very pretty tune for Christmas. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to its sentiment especially given that as I write these words, we have just learned in the UK that a new tier 4 has now been introduced for some areas of London — meaning that folk in those areas now must cancel their Christmas plans. Even more shocking given that London was in tier two up to a few days ago, although this classification was more for political rather than scientific reasons.

A very pretty and very wise song by Billy Joel. Sadly the sound quality of the video is a little poor.

Countdown to the year anniversary of Covid Island Discs T -3

This is probably one of Dire Straits longest songs running for over 15 minutes. This song opened their Love over Gold album and it certainly is a fantastic and interesting song. Interestingly enough, there is a Telegraph Road in the North Shore of Sydney so whenever I drove past that road in Pymble, it always brought this classic Dire Straits song to mind. Some how I don't think the Pymble Telegraph road would have been the road that Mark Knopfler had in mind when he penned this classic.