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jackhammer · 10-14-2011, 06:17 PM

John Martyn (R.I.P) just could not get over the divorce from his wife Beverley (whom he recorded a couple of albums with too in the early 70's) and wrote this for her whilst drunk one night and it remains one of his most heartfelt songs ever.

This is a live version of the track and every single word is etched in his face:

This is a Charles Mingus track that Joni Mitchell added lyrics to whilst working with Mingus in the final months of his death and the original song itself was an elegy to saxophonist Lester Young who Mingus worked with so it works on many levels.

Ian Brown (ex Stone Roses vocalist) wanted to use the power of etymology in a song and used FEAR as an acronym for all the lyrics in the song. What makes this such a fantastic track is not just the fact that he managed this lyrically but he also managed to make an absolute stormer of a track that should go down as one of the best British songs ever. I could listen to this everyday forever (the album version is longer but not available on YT)

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	John Martyn (R.I.P) just could not get over the divorce from his wife Beverley (whom he recorded a couple of albums with too in the early 70's) and wrote this for her whilst drunk one night and it remains one of his most heartfelt songs ever. This is a live version of the track and every single word is etched in his face: This is a Charles Mingus track that Joni Mitchell added lyrics to whilst working with Mingus in the final months of his death and the original song itself was an elegy to saxophonist Lester Young who Mingus worked with so it works on many levels. Ian Brown (ex Stone Roses vocalist) wanted to use the power of etymology in a song and used FEAR as an acronym for all the lyrics in the song. What makes this such a fantastic track is not just the fact that he managed this lyrically but he also managed to make an absolute stormer of a track that should go down as one of the best British songs ever. I could listen to this everyday forever (the album version is longer but not available on YT) __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”