mass celebration of the taste of a dead sloane
my dad — more or less fully bedridden now and unable to work any music device more elaborate than a TV remote — watched pretty much all of the concert for diana; i tried to watch as much as i could with him, because time with him basically means time watching TV with him, but i only managed about 20 minutes
which is not to say there weren’t fascinating oddities even in that little span — nuggets of ultra-coded information that begged to be opened up… as i’d been reading penman’s essay on bryan ferry a few days back, i was idly wondering about the conversation lady di might have had (about roxy music) (or sapphire and steel, i bet she loved that) with ferry’s other more regal fan, and something happened in the music that ground my mind to a halt, the unexpected ambush of a long-known fact i genuinely couldn’t process: ferry was playing blues harp (which of course he’s always done now and then), and just the fact of him not (for once) complicatedly failing to mimick cool lounge-suit sung ease, but puffing away with his cheeks and forehead at this least upperclass of instruments… and it thre something into my head his recent cover-version project totally didn’t, bcz here i was suddenly thinking of lyttle bryan long ago in kitchen-sink land eager actually to BE bob dylan, and practicing practicing practicing till he sounded just the same, the epitome of the opposite of surface grace — which for a bar or so he did
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Did Bryan Adams play?
Well this is why he had the ‘tache in the original video – to hide the effort!
bryan adams was allegedly banned, due to having actually shagged di…
I think you meant “allegedly” rather than “actually” in that second clause – remember Bryan Adams bought and shut down the pub next door to his Chelsea pad because it was making too much noise. He might do the same with the Cross Kings BEWARE OF THE GREEN DRAGON!