Your Sting connection is interesting. I can imagine reading his biography would be odd. It must have been full of places you knew well. (I'm determined to get to Newcastle some day. That's where my dad immigrated to after the war, and he spent a number of years a ship's engineer on ships out of Newcastle, and occasionally Birkenhead, before pulling up stakes again for Canada.)
Yes were one of the big prog rock groups in the '70s, but I was introduced to them in high school when they went a bit more pop and released the single Owner of a Lonely Heart. In their prog era, they were famous for doing grandiose twenty minute pieces with lots of baroque influence, which as a classical music-loving rock fan was right up my street.
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Date: 2012-03-18 01:40 am (UTC)Yes were one of the big prog rock groups in the '70s, but I was introduced to them in high school when they went a bit more pop and released the single Owner of a Lonely Heart. In their prog era, they were famous for doing grandiose twenty minute pieces with lots of baroque influence, which as a classical music-loving rock fan was right up my street.