I first started keeping a diary 40 years ago. Dad, Anne, Mike, Alison, Frances and I only went on a few summer holidays all together – there were scout and guide camps, after that some of us became too cool for it, though sub groups did go away. This was special, it was in aContinue reading “My mind goes sleepwalking”
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It’s just a rumour that’s been spread around town
Robert Wyatt was drummer/ co-vocalist in Soft Machine, a band from the early 1970s. In June 1973 he fell from a fourth-floor window due to being very and drunk ever since he has been paralysed from the waist down. I had never heard of him until I heard this song in 1983. It was writtenContinue reading “It’s just a rumour that’s been spread around town”
Five Miles Out 