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Greg Lake, Epitaph

Sun, 11 Dec 2016 10:31:50 +0000

King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King is the album that made me fall in love with Prog Rock. Greg Lake‘s powerful vocals on the track Epitaph have much to do with this.

Written around 1969, the lyrics (by Pete Sinfield) are almost prophetic:

The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
As silence drowns the screams

A boy walking down the street

Thu, 01 Sep 2016 07:58:08 +0000

Today was Jonathan’s first day of Kindergarten. On the way home, as the radio played Eli Mohar and Yoni Rechter’s “As Long”, I burst into tears.

While it doesn’t do the original any justice, here’s my attempt to translate the lyrics to English:

A boy walking down the street
On a clear September morning
To the school the children go out again
A man walks behind him
Watches, sees – unseen
And only later he stands there, witnessing

Old Neil Young and young Neil Young sing Old Man

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:49:19 +0000

From The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon:

How ‘Mad Men’ Landed The Beatles

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:06:58 +0000

This week’s Mad Men scene where Don sat down to listen to the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” was brilliant. The New York Times has some background information.

How ‘Mad Men’ Landed The Beatles: All You Need Is Love (and $250,000) – NYTimes.com