A DELAYED POST!
It is doubtful I was alone back in 1974 when thinking, soon after the release of the complexly penned album and the extensive tour of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Peter Gabriel quit the band that it would be the end of ‘them’ and ‘him’ alone!
How wrong can you be as briefly Ray Wilson of Scottish band Stiltskin took over the vocals before Phil Collins’ wife advised that he might step up to the microphone himself, recording one of their best offerings ever, the seminal 1976
- the rest, including his own solo career, is history.
It took Gabriel a little longer to get ‘back in the groove’ but a wait worth waiting for as the eponymous title was released in 1977, with the same for the 3 albums that followed, simply bearing his name, without even a 1 - 2 - 3 - or 4!
Today’s title, which is part of the above, does not relate to the post that follows at all, but maybe Gabriel’s foresight into the predicament the Whole World finds itself in at present, a little ditty about a ‘medieval pandemic’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpJbebfLmJ0
Caught in the chaos in the market square
I don't know what, I don't know why, but something's wrong down there
Their bodies twistin' and turnin' in a thousand ways
The eyes all rollin' round and round into a distant gaze
Ah, look at that crowd!
Some are jumping up in the air say "We're drowning in a torrent of blood! Others going down on their knees, seen a saviour coming out of the mud
Oh Mother! It's eating out my soul
Destroying law and order, I'm gonna lose control
What can I do to stop this plague, spread by sight alone
Just a glimpse and then a quiver, then they shiver to the bone
A juvenile
on the track up to the Gravel Pit where the c3
Ah, look at them go!
Bunderschaft, you are going daft? Better seal off the castle grounds
"This is Moribund, the Burgermeister, I'm gonna keep this monster down,
Somebody sent the subversive element; going to chase it out of town."
No-one will tell what all this is about
But I will find out.
This thing's outrageous, I tell you on the level
It's really so contagious must be the work of the devil
You better go now, pick up the pipers, tell them to play
Seems the music keeps them quiet, there is no other way.
Ah, close the doors!
"We've tried potions and waxen dolls, but none of us could find any
cures, "
Mother please, is it just a disease, that has them breaking all my laws,
Check if you can disconnect the effect and I'll go after the cause
No-one will tell what this is all about
But I will find out
would anyone be surprised should Johnson and his Crew give them a go?
The best in fact were not Moths at all but other Insects such as a
a
which is one of the only Micro Moth familiar to me and an invader from the Antipodes, there are thousands of them here.
along with that and finally an
just one of tens of thousands but a timely reminder to tell how this years bumper crop may have
We did pay a quick visit
before locating the first of the
and while once again we were unable to find a
Black Redstart at the Sewerage Works we were rather taken by this
Robin searching for groceries!
We are ever aware and alert to the fact that the White-tailed Eagle Project is only a few maile away on the Isle of Wight across the Solent!
