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The music of the spheres
Read more: The music of the spheresThe music of the spheres. We’re up to Number 4 in the Top Ten Songs Spotify Says Steve’s Stats Show. or something. This song is A Very British Ending from the What Would You Die For? EP. I’m made up this song has proved so popular. Popular in relative terms. Almost 10 years ago me…
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Only love can set you free
Read more: Only love can set you freeOnly love can set you free. The business end of the top ten songs Spotify stats suggest are my most popular. Number 5: This is a Cold War. This song is from the second of my Cold War E.Ps ‘What Would You Die For?’ The cold war songs all have the same thing at the…
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The end of the Cold War
Read more: The end of the Cold War‘I feel it in my bones, I’m kicking at the stone, and the wall comes tumbling down…’ It’s almost 30 years since the ‘fall’ of the Berlin Wall, a hugely momentous event in recent history, the ramifications of which are with us today. The end of history it was not. The show I wrote inspired…
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It was 100 years ago today
Read more: It was 100 years ago todayI’m ‘enjoying’ the tv programmes commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution of 100 years ago as I’ve always been fascinated by the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. I tend to think of communist Russia as the experiment that never was; communism by name only, mafia tyranny in reality. It’s a complex history and a revolution…