This is Duncan Browne’s ‘My Old Friends’, which I heard on a repeat of Guy Garvey’s BBC Radio 6 Music programme Guy Garvey's Finest Hour from a Sunday in June:
I’d never heard of Duncan Browne, though I should have done. As you can see from the hair, this was done in 1973. It starts unpromisingly, and he's singing entirely about male camaraderie - the friendships made before “we met our women and they took us away" - but there's a cluster of fresh and lovely lines in the middle. And it's in interesting contrast to that other song about old friends, 'Bob Dylan's Dream'.
Duncan Browne died of cancer in 1993, aged 46.
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A FINE RANT - PAY THE WRITER!
This should be played very loudly to every radio programme producer, including those at BBC local radio stations, who never mention money and therefore force you to mention it, at which point they come on to you as if they're a charity organisation and/or sound shocked that a writer should have anything so sordid as money in mind.
This interview was recorded in 2007, and is copyrighted to some corporation. I hope it's his. This venal unwillingness to pay writers has grown exponentially since this. My dilemma is, of course, that I am not paying him to use this interview. And neither am I being paid for writing this blog. It's all media madness.
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