(On the link below see the 21/06 edit, I am always coming across new parallels! There is one (DVD 7000X) product I have from 2003 (just before social media really started 'taking off', in the transition of the monumental changes/ seismic shifts, that were beginning within the music industry), including both Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel and Roxy Music [and they are both live performances])
These guys (Harrison and Harley - the song and performance below refers), knew how to write and deliver (respectively and respect) an 'up' pop song (as well as a 'down' song and various in between modes). On the other hand (and I think that the melody and words convey this too) we don't want it too hot for too long, we want homeostasis for the organism (wherever on the tree of life) and homeostasis for James Lovelock's Gaia or Neneh Cherry's Mother Earth (Sasha and I both thought, in the late 1980's to the mid 1990's that Neneh's persona was very 'Earth Mother'). It was great meeting her briefly in 1996...her eyes were so dark, almost black (I felt like - they drew me in), her husband [Cameron McVey] was keeping a close eye on me - whilst still playing! Sash (too) had a bit of a girl crush on her, I think. We were next to her microphone during the whole gig (she was very close to her audience). Postscript: Relatively recently, I've read Neneh's autobiography, 'A Thousand Threads' (Vintage, 2024). I could hardly put it down until I got to the end...
... I knew that when one of my subjects back on day release (Reading, 1988-1990) was 'Land Use', this was significant as well as interesting, for me, both historically and contemporaneously.
POLITICAL RANT: I'll never forgive the Tories (here in the UK) for privatising water (1989). Ditto with energy. In my view, war has been used as an excuse for the considerable redistribution of a sizeable part of (ordinary working) people's incomes and there is absolutely no defence to what is going on in our rivers (immoral) and seas (but the latter is more of a global issue). Nano plastics are now widespread, within the environment, around and well away from, human populations and have been found within (living) organisms (including humans)...Postscript (although he wrote it about another aspect of governmental policy) check out the great melody/words of Ian Hunter and The Rant Band (2001, I'm pretty sure) of their song 'Ripoff'. For me, that certainly applies here (today) some twenty-odd years later.
Postscript: My own political rant has reminded me that Steve once spoke in the press about his support for the 'bin workers' (refuse collection - in those days it was all land fill - which in itself adds weight to my nano plastics point - we've simply had to start recycling because of the proliferation of this type of packaging). Steve added his voice to supporting that sector during the 'Winter of Discontent' (Winter 1978-79), I recall.
Feargal Sharkey (formerly of The Undertones) is 'with me' regarding the current (unacceptable/ongoing) pollution of English rivers...and distributions to shareholders amounting to well over £7 billion since privatisation - in lieu of adequate investment in the infrastructure...This has ignored both, the considerable growth in human population and consequent building of new houses, and the effects of global warming (scientifically, undeniable). It's a disgrace and in my view, a crime to the natural world, to freshwater river eco-systems and to all species (YES, ALL) that rely on them...the cradle of life and civilisation (the latter is becoming increasingly questionable, what are we doing?! And what have we done - or allowed to happen?!)
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George Harrison (1943-2001) Steve Harley (1951-2024)
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