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A Winters Day
This song was inspired by this photograph
A WINTERS DAY
IN A RAIL YARD, EAST CLEVELAND
THE SNOW LIES WHITE
AND UN-WALKED
THEN A MAN LOOKS OUT
INTO MY EYES
FROM OH SO MANY YEARS AGO
HE SAYS;
YOU ARE THE FUTURE
AND I THE PAST
BUT I KNEW YOU’D PASS THIS WAY
IF YOU THINK OF ME
NOW AND THEN
I WILL NEVER FADE AWAY
Posted in ST Lyrics.
– January 21, 2010
Girl In The Lane
Another work in progress. Destined for my Places in Time Album. Perhaps a strange track, I’m not even sure if it’s good or bad.
Posted in Places In Time.
– October 11, 2009
I Searched (And Never Found)
Just finished the first track on my “Places in Time” album (below)
More about the Places In Time project HERE
It would be in the early 90′s Molly and me found ourselves in Derbyshire visiting Matlock Bath (Little Switzerland) and one day we set out to find Crich Tramway Museum. In those days I was not a driver so we got off the train at Whatstandwell and trekked for what seemed like hours. It was a beautiful day and at one point we had climbed so hight that as I looked down at the valley to the railway snaking through the rolling countryside, I felt that I was on the top of the world. Even the air seemed thinner. For me this track evokes that feeling. Hope you like it. The (And Never Found) added to the title is artistic license. We did indeed find the museum but it took some doing. Mark my words, Peak District travel leaflets are prone to exaggeration. Remarkably I found a guys blog HERE – his pictures tell the same story as my music.
Posted in Places In Time.
– October 4, 2009
Power Glam
In the early 70’s my band Bullfrog were signed to Cube Records. In a moment of madness we wrote a jokey song called “Riddley Tiddley Tum”. We tried to cloak our daftness by naming it Glancy after our first singer. However, our record company picked up on it and pronounced it to be our first single. We were mortified being a serious rock outfit so we promoted the B side on TV shows and the like which must have driven our record company mad.
Anyway, I thought that was all long forgotten but it seems that in the digital age your past is just behind you. I gather the track is out on a compilation and doing very well under the title of “Blitzing the Ballroom: 20 UK Power Glam Incendiaries” (oh my goodness!) It’s available on Amazon http://bit.ly/powerglam and apparently it’s 59 in Tower Records top 100 best sellers of glam rock CDs and it’s available and reviewed all over the web. Infamy at last!
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Posted in ST Blogs & Musings.
– September 16, 2009
Places, first notes finally laid down after 2 years
Two years ago I contemplated a music project idea in a restaurant in
Tuscany http://stmedia.org/places-in-time/
I’ve thought of it many times since but have still to lay down the
first track. At the weekend I finally began. I awoke in the
Blackenrigg Hotel to one of my favourite views overlooking Ullswater
in the English Lakes. On listening back once home again I must say the
slow evolving chords do indeed evoke that scene. Lots more needed
before there is a full music collection. I hope the sound of the Duomo
bells tolling in Prato is still in my iPaq.
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Posted in Places In Time, ST Blogs & Musings.
– September 1, 2009
MySpace Song Reinstated
Further to this story, I finally got an answer from MySpace re their removal of one of my songs. They suggested I write to Sony BMG which I did. I wrote the following
Hello,
I am the composer of “Ne Me Plaignez Pas” recorded by Celine Dion in 1983. It was originally released by Sheena Easton in 1982 under the title “Please Don’t Sympathise”
I added the Celine Dion recording of Ne Me Plaignez Pas as a non downloadable example of my work as a songwriter. Whilst I accept that I do not own the copyright of the recording or Celines performance I DO own the copyright of the song (I am it’s publisher) The recording is 26 years old and I am not misrepresenting myself, nor am I making money from having it on MySpace and I don’t think I am negatively affecting your rights or financial situation. Given all this I wonder if you would write to MySpace (their suggestion) and ask that they unblock the content. (or allow me to upload it again)
My MySpace URL is http://www.myspace.com/stmedia2
As an artist myself I can assure you that I take copyright very seriously. In this instance I think there is a little scope for leeway.
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Sony BMG saw sense in my argument and sent me a long and eloquent response 
they said – “you should be able to upload it now”
I still had to take the MySpace “copyright education program” which was complete and utter bollocks. One page of trivial questions and answers (they provide all the answers) and you tick OK at the bottom. None of the questions related to me so I just ticked anyway.
You can see all the Myspace Stuff by clicking on the “read more” link.
Posted in News & Stories.
– April 26, 2009
