One regular here sent me this link today. Peter Gabriel write it at least in part as a response to Thatcher.
I happen to really like this version.
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This is a lovely song but I often wondered how many venal yuppie capitalists and city rip off merchants listened to this to console themselves as they attempted to get their criminal activities and their ‘get rich quick by destroying someone else’ schemes going?
Indeed
It is still one of the better albums of the 1980’s though – no doubt about it.
That must have been quite some concert!
* a little before in the running order was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU6gm7BXLss
* and immediately after https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evN6DIGPIJM
When that was first recorded in 1985, that was some way off 1990. And the concert in 1993 was still some time before 1997. But we have to hope that things will get better, even if they might get worse first.
More prosaically, just keep swimming. It gets better. (Something I strive to remind myself when the blue funk descends, and all seems bleak.)
The whole concert, as far as I can tell, is here
https://youtu.be/Up6f7j8seFU
I have watched it several times
I didn’t know this performance. It’s a powerful song. The version I’m familiar with is Gabriel with Kate Bush. Kate Bush seems to be a Marmite artist; people love her or hate her.
On the inside of my garden shed door it says: It will be alright in the end. If it’s not alright it’s not the end. (Don’t know where it originates, but is attributed to the Best Marigold Hotel script.)
A garden is a good metaphor for life. You’ve never finished a garden but you can stop gardening at anytime if you can live with the mess.
Gardeners have to live in hope