Sunday 2 November 2014
John Cale - If You Were Still Around
A year to the day after Lou
Reed's death, John Cale issued a re-recorded
version of 'If You Were Still Around', a song
originally released on the 1982 LP 'Music For
A New Society'. The accompanying video is a
moving salute to Reed and other fallen
comrades from the Velvet Underground era,
including Andy Warhol, Sterling Morrison and Nico, and finds Cale himself literally raging
against the dying of the light. Stay tuned until the
very end of the clip and watch as he staggers out of shot,
emotionally spent.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Greatest Hits
-
It's the summer of 1974. Go down to the bottom of my road, through the park, round the edge of the allotments beyond, on past the cricke...
-
I started to seriously look into my family tree over the past winter, in an effort to make sense of the paper trail left by Mum. In the 1980...
-
Somehow, don't ask me exactly how it happened, I seem to have reached the grand old age of 57. Last time I checked, I could've sw...
-
There's been a lot of stuff going on lately, some happy stuff, some sad stuff and I'll get back to all that in due course with any l...
-
'I'm post-laughter' says Stewart Lee. Expanding on this statement, he imagines an audience member's conversation the morn...
2 comments:
Powerful stuff. Imbibe with care.
Come back JC
Post a Comment