EXTRACT FOR
Voices
(Dorothy Davies)
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This book is divided into four sections, namely:- Pop Mania Country Roads Colour Me Blues Jazz Inc SECTION 1 - POP MANIA
A COLLECTION OF REMINISCENCES BY POP ARTISTS With the help of Brian Jones and Gene Pitney POP MANIA Grateful thanks: To Brian
Jones and Gene Pitney for their
help in bringing the people to me so they could speak about their lives, deaths
and afterlives. To Mary Holliday for her invaluable input in
this extraordinary book To Terry Wakelin, still the rock and anchor
in my life; To my spirit companions for laughter and more
love than a human could ask for. Most of all, to the many artists who took
time out from their spirit lives to come and talk. A small admission here, one that occurred to
me just about the time I was thinking of wrapping this book up. Back when I was
a pre- and very young teenager, I sent a letter to a teen magazine to ask
whether any of the stars on the enclosed list would come to my birthday party.
I had a charming note back saying they would be too busy to come. It's time to say... thinking about it, all the
names on my list have now come to see me, now they have time (and so do I) to
talk with them. Wishes can come true, you just need to believe... The artists who have left messages in the
order they arrived: (The titles are the songs they chose for their message
heading. 2006: Freddie
Mercury - Bohemian Rhapsody 2007: Brian
Jones - Ruby Tuesday Dusty
Springfield - Son Of A Preacher Man 2008: John
Lennon - Imagine Del
Shannon - Runaway Billy
Fury -
Wondrous Place Gene
Pitney - Something's Got A
Hold Of My Heart Lonnie
Donegan - Rock Island Line Rick
Nelson
- Hello Marylou Eddie
Cochran - Summertime Blues Alma
Cogan - Hernando's Hideaway Marc
Bolan
- Ride A White Swan Bob
Marley - No Woman No Cry Jim
Morrison - Riders On The Storm Buddy
Holly - That'll Be The Day George
Harrison - My Sweet Lord Jimi
Hendrix - Purple Haze Lawrence
Payton (Four Tops) - Yesterday's Dreams Otis
Redding - (Sitting On) The Dock Of The
Bay Ray
Charles - Georgia On My Mind Guy
Mitchell - Singing The Blues Roy
Orbison - Only The Lonely Sam
Cooke -You Send Me Bobby
Darin
- Dream Lover Bo
Diddley - Bo Diddley Cass
Elliot - Monday, Monday Johnny
Ray -
Just Walking In The Rain Marvin
Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine Ike
Turner - River Deep, Mountain
High Frankie
Laine
- I Believe David
Whitfield - Answer Me Frankie
Vaughan - Green Door Big
Bopper
- Chantilly Lace 2009: Perry
Como - Catch
A Falling Star Anthony
Newley
- I've Waited So Long Carl
Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes Ritchie
Valens - La Bamba 2010: Harry
Chapin
- W O L D Mel
Appleby - Respectable Karl
Mueller - Runaway Train Flanders
and Swan - The Hippopotamus Song Nat
'King' Cole - Unforgettable Janis
Joplin - Piece Of My Heart Kirsty
McColl - Walking Down Madison Dean
Martin
- Memories Are Made Of This Alan Breeze - I've
Got a Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts Michael
Hutchence - Need
You Tonight Marie
Lloyd - The Boy I Love Is Up
In The Gallery Floyd
Cramer - On The Rebound Ian Dury - Reasons To Be
Cheerful, Part 3 2011: Gerry
Rafferty - Baker Street Kurt
Cobain
- Smells Like Teen Spirit John
Walker - No Regrets Phyllis
Hyman - Never Say Never Again 2012: Richard
Manuel - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Whitney
Houston - I Will Always Love
You Donna Summer - I Feel Love Robin Gibb -Massachusetts Shannon Hoon- No Rain 2013: Max Bygraves Tulips From Amsterdam 2017: Amy
Winehouse Rehab Levi
Stubbs
- Look Of Love Vesta
Victoria - Waiting At the Church 2018: Chuck
Berry - Maybelline Michael
Jackson - Thriller 2006 Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury 5th
September 1946 - 24th November 1991 In 2006 I bought tickets for a Queen Tribute
evening for my friend Mary and myself. The next time I
visited Mary, she pulled a video from the shelf and said, "Let's watch the real
thing, shall we?" As we were watching
Freddie parading across the stage, every inch the showman, we became aware of
someone standing behind the sofa where we were sitting. I asked who it was and
got "guess." We tried our usual Twenty Questions but the person got impatient
and said right in my ear, "you're looking at him!" I jumped so hard it hurt! He watched for a
while and then said "show-off, wasn't I?" and I said "No, showman, not show off."
He seemed pleased with that. Freddie came and went
for a while; then I heard from a medium that he had taken on the task of
helping young musicians and singers who were making their demo tapes, work he
could and does do very well. I still get visits
from this charismatic beautiful man; he drops by to see if I am all right, to
exchange a few words and then he is gone again, back to his first love, working
with music. There has not been a
direct message from Freddie. I know well that he resented his early passing, he
hated the disease which took him, he wished for much more time on this side of
life and a chance to do all the things he really wanted to do. It seemed to him
he was cut down in his prime although he accepts it was his time to go. He appreciates
the fact that the music lives on, he smiles at the 'tribute' bands and hopes
they keep Queen music alive but, as he says, they will never replace the real
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