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Remembering Live Aid

..because I was there!
I've been to many hundreds of diverse musical shows from street music at the Sidmouth folk festival to ballet at Sadler's Wells. Every now and again a curious thing happens. The performance of the artists and the reaction of the audience appear to fuel each other, such that the whole experience seems to exceed the sum of its parts. A mere concert transcends itself to become an event. One of these was Live Aid, the 35th anniversary of which is the 13th of July this week. I was lucky enough... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, July 12, 2020 4:58:00 AM
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A pat on the back for me

..I made it half way through a year of weekly blogging.
My new year's resolution was to publish a weekly blog post ever Sunday throughout 2020. Well this week we will pass the mid-point of the year and so far I've managed to stick to my goal. So this week I thought I would explain why I'm doing it and what I've learned so far. I'm not new to blogging but previously I'd only ever written articles as the mood took me, which has the downside that there are gaps where sometimes months would go by where I'd not got around to writing... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, July 5, 2020 6:05:00 PM Categories: Blogging Writing
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Remembering Lady Di

Personal memories including the day she nearly ran me over.
At the beginning of the 1980's Britain was in a fairly dark place. An economic, social and cultural transition was happening. The country was in need of a fairy tale and it got one in the shape of the much publicised romance between Prince Charles and Diana Frances Spencer, who was born on 1 July 1961. Since this is the week of Diana's birth I thought I jot down a few memories and observations. We never met face to face but our paths did cross a couple of times. By the time I... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, June 28, 2020 9:52:00 AM Categories: Celebrity
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