It wasn't unexpected to get the news that John Weller had passed away , it was a beautiful sunny morning in fact , but the news still stung even though the anticipation existed .
I finished work today , a day peppered by texts and calls , I missed the call that mattered but made ammends and spoke to the one person I needed to speak to , I raised a glass at dinner and reminisced with my beautiful partner of days of travel and nights of glory that followed , and after a little to much wine the drowsiness lifted and the harsh reality that someone very special had passed hit me , I wanted to say that , with my emotions bubbling very much to the surface , I wanted to remember those decades and shows and nights that we all spent together , indestructible , laughing and making the music of our dreams , wide eyed vagabonds not quite believing .
I remember the day on arriving back from Sydney, John telling me it was all over and he had enough of "this lark" , that was 24 odd years …
I finished work today , a day peppered by texts and calls , I missed the call that mattered but made ammends and spoke to the one person I needed to speak to , I raised a glass at dinner and reminisced with my beautiful partner of days of travel and nights of glory that followed , and after a little to much wine the drowsiness lifted and the harsh reality that someone very special had passed hit me , I wanted to say that , with my emotions bubbling very much to the surface , I wanted to remember those decades and shows and nights that we all spent together , indestructible , laughing and making the music of our dreams , wide eyed vagabonds not quite believing .
I remember the day on arriving back from Sydney, John telling me it was all over and he had enough of "this lark" , that was 24 odd years …
Nice to see Paul doing sessions for a good ole' Tory paper...very 'working class' old chap!
ReplyDeleteWhy the fuck is Paul Weller doing anything for The Sun? Total letdown.
ReplyDeleteThe Sun???? Jesus!....still could have been worse I suppose, The Mail for example!
ReplyDeleteIt all falls in line with the fan-milking, money making philosophy… £60 for a ‘Fred Perry’ here, £80 for a stripy ‘Ben Sherman’ there, ..countless reissues and deluxe versions of this that and the other, remixing the ‘A’ side to make the ‘B’ side to fuel the CD/Vinyl package of tracks already issued under some other guise. A very sad decline indeed..
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