BBCNEWS This Cultural Life June 4, 2024 15:36:00
That i felt very familiar with, and i pretty quickly decided i could do it. just by sitting down and trying. and i had written a lot of songs by then and i had written, you know, i had gone through this phase in my teens, like a good teenager, of musicalising ts eliot poems. like, i've got this song that i can still hear that goes: # let us go, then, you and i # when the evening is spread out against the sky # like a patient, etherised upon a table...# yeah, i know it. right? we all know that. and by the way, i've gone back to eliot in my later years and it stands up, man. it's brilliant. it's...