

Ocean - Alice Phoebe Lou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl8xXEmgACc Of course, Equal Opportunities, like any tool, can be used wrongly or even abused. The...


Hard Street - Energy Orchard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAPFA6Z1iG4 When I worked for the socialist republic of Islington, aka Islington Council, in the Arts and...


Cyprus Avenue - Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHijcP39UQ Way back in 1973, when there were only 4 UK tv channels, no digital alternatives, no home...


Madame George - Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCVpwNGPME Sacrilegious though it may seem, I actually prefer the version of "Madame George" released by...


Sweet Thing - Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFAp3aRJ2vA Van Morrison left the Belfast band Them in 1966 and relocated to America, to embark on his...


Rave On John Donne - Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv49jlyX-co In 1923 W. B. Yeats, like John Steinbeck and Bob Dylan in 1962 and 2016 respectively, won...


The Great Dust Storm - Woody Guthrie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J34m9ppG3Bo We couldn't cover Woody Guthrie (see previous posts) without including a song by the great...


Jesus Christ - U2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47WxX3FkwU Easter Sunday has become the day of Easter Eggs, neatly incorporating the resurrection of the...


Gonna Get Through This World - the Klezmatics
Woody Guthrie's second mother-in-law (ie the mother of his second wife, Marjorie Mazia) was American Yiddish poet, Aliza Greenblatt, and....


Old Man Trump - Ryan Harvey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmZnlGBhwKg Woody Guthrie was an incredibly prolific songwriter, and many of the songs he wrote and...

