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

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.

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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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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“Creating a hit song, or several can be a rewarding experience, however the song will be published, performed, recorded and sold globally. Keeping up with where the song goes, and making sure copyright is intact proves a very interesting journey for song writer Steve Thompson.

Not just in the field of writing and publishing, but as a producer and arranger for other bands and singers. Years of experience in the music industry provides a fascinating web of interwoven stories within the music industry. He takes the journey with his long established lawyer, Simon Long of Collins Long (London) with fascinating insights into the music industry, publishing and what happens once the song is internationally renowned and played, plus his own personal journey of defending his copyright with the help of Simon Long from vinyl to social media and downloading. This will be a highly entertainingevent with some very interesting stories”.