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WV1661

2010

 

Radio Gaga!

 

Coloured pencel and ink on $teinbach paper

WV778/2005

Coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

 

Sing icebird sing!

WV249

1995

 

The señorita is passing by with coloured pencils and a white Steinback paper block...

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011

Original watercolour and ink on Steinbach paper, digital reworked...

 

Elton John Songs Illustrated

BLUE MOVES

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The Wide-eyed And Laughing

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1976

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Are you still in control of the boat that you row

Or do you still cling to me when its sinking

I never condemned you, I only consoled you

When candlelight made me a King

  

For the wide-eyed and laughing

Passed like a season

Erasing a passion to sin

For no one knew better than the tealeaves and the tarots

That the wide-eyed and laughing

Were just one step ahead of the wind

  

And the hearts that you played on the porch swing for me

Was a song that I'd heard in the past

For I had an audience somewhere inside you

That applauded whenever you laughed

  

Gone is a word that I now rarely use

Though sometime in the course of a day

I go racing back like a man possessed

By the wide-eyed and laughing daughters of some different age

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012

 

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COCOON

By Bjork

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Who would have known

That a boy like him

Would have entered me lightly

Restoring my blisses

 

Who would have known

That a boy like him

After sharing my core

Would stay going nowhere

 

Who would have known

A beauty this immense

Who would have known

A saintly trance

Who would have known

Miraculous breath

To inhale a beard

Loaded with courage

 

Who would have known

That a boy like him

Possessed of magical

Sensitivity

Would approach a girl like me

Who caresses cradles his head

In a bosom

 

He slides inside

Half awake, half asleep

We faint back

Into sleephood

When I wake up

The second time

In his arms

Gorgeousness

He's still inside me

 

Who would have known

Who ahhh

Who would have known

 

A train of pearls

Cabin by cabin

Is shot precisely

Across an ocean

 

From a mouth

From a

From the mouth

Of a girl like me

To a boy

WV2046/2025

Coloured pencils andink on paper.

 

"...

Sunday's child and the wolf were wed

To Monday's child with her empty head

Tuesday's child seemed to know the answer

..."

 

TUESDAY'S CHILD - All About Eve, 1989;

"Sayonara Mariko-san..."

 

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

 

Shōgun is an American television miniseries based on the namesake novel by James Clavell. It was on television in the early eighties.

The story is based on the adventures of English navigator William Adams, an English captain who sailed with a Dutch ship "The Erasmus" to Japan in the year of our Lord 1600... He never returned.

WV1850/2024

 

"Are we really happy here with this lonely game we play?

Looking for words to say

Searching but not finding understanding anywhere

We're lost in a masquerade..."

 

THIS MASQUERADE Leon Russell, 1972

WV878

2006

 

"Jesus freaks out in the street

Handing tickets out for God

Turning back she just laughs

The boulevard is not that bad..."

("Tiny Dancer", Bernie Taupin lyrics 1971)

 

Coloured pencil and ink on Steinbach paper

WV1219/2008

Coloured pencil and pastel on $teinbach paper

 

"And it's no use each way we lose

You and me at the crossroads of Blue Avenue

Hit and run hearts collide here

True love passes through

Looks like we've got a wreck babe

Up on Blue Avenue

Up on Blue Avenue

Blue Avenue..."

 

BLUE AVENUE (excerpt) - Music & lyrics Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1989)

  

WV1900/2024

 

"The seadogs have all sailed their ships

Into the docks of dawn

While the sirens sit and comb their hair

And twiddle with their thumbs

 

Oh Thor above the mountain

Look down upon your children

This is their heaven where they're told

To bring their galleons

 

Seek you find your place with me

Men of iron, men of steel

Only the brave hear the hammers ring

In the courts of the Queens, in the halls of the Kings

 

You can come to Val-hala in your own time

Come to Val-hala seek and you will find Val-hala

Come to Val-hala in your own time

Come to Val-hala seek and you will find Val-hala..."

 

VAL-HALA - Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupin, 1969.

WV1756

2012

B

 

"Ho hey ho...

 

What's the use of worrying?

What's the use of hurrying?

What's the use of anything?

 

Ho hey ho..."

 

(Paul McCartney lyrics)

  

Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper

WV1843/2024

Sharks in the Seine

 

"... Crazy water

Takes my fishing boat on Monday morning

Dangerous dreaming

If we all believe in the things you believe you're seeing

Oh we'd never drop our nets in the crazy water, crazy water..."

 

CRAZY WATER Music & lyrics Elton John & Bernie Taupi, 1976

 

WV823/2005

Coloured pencil and pastel on $teinbach paper

 

"Hey Joe, somebody touched your wife.. What are you going to do about it?"

   

WV168

1991

 

Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper.

 

This is the Road to Hell.

WV1069

2007

 

'Dolly Summers was a simple girl

From a mid-west family

With a stucco home and her own Mustang

And a charge account at Sears

She had everything that a girl could want

To live happy for the rest of her years..."

("Shoulder Holster", Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1976)

 

Coloured pencil and ink on $teinbach paper

WV720/2003

Coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

 

"Me and Mrs. Mrs. Jones

We've got a thing going on.

We both know that it's wrong,

but it's much too strong

to let it go now.

 

We've gotta be extra careful

That we don't build our hopes up too high.

'Cause she's got her own obligations

and so – and so do I... "

 

(Billy Paul Songs)

   

Old76 Music-inspired DArt 2015

 

And it's gonna be a bright sun shining day!

New beginnings with Minnie the Cat. "Don't mind me, I'm just looking for a place to sleep..."

WV939

2006

 

"And there's a word in Spanish I don't understand

But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man

He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere

And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears

A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish..."

("A Word In Spanish", Elton John/Bernie Taupin 1988)

 

Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper

WV1924/2024

 

"Full-time living on a half-time schedule

Always trying to make everybody feel special

Learning when to brake and when to hit the pedal

Working hard to look good 'til we die

A critical reason there's a population

Raising eyebrows and a new generation

Rosie the Riveter with renovations

And always gets better with wine

 

Redesigning women

Running the world while we're cleaning up the kitchen

Making bank, shaking hands, driving 80

Trying to get home just to feed the baby

Skipping the bread for the butter

Changing our minds like we change our hair color

Yeah, ever since the beginning

We've been redesigning women

 

Pulling up the floors and changing out the curtains

Some of us are saints and some of us are surgeons

Made in God's image, just a better version

And breaking every Jell-O mold

And when we love someone, we take 'em to heaven

And if the shoe fits, we're gonna buy 11

How we get it done, we like to keep 'em guessing

But secretly, we all know..."

 

REDESIGNING WOMEN - The Highwomen, 2019.

WV1747

2011

B

 

"I was standing

All alone against the world outside

You were searching

For a place to hide

 

Lost and lonely

Now you've given me the will to survive

When we're hungry...love will keep us alive..."

 

(Eagles lyrics)

  

Ink and gouache on $teinbach paper.

WV1674

2010

 

"Nothing lasts forever

Of that I'm sure..."

 

(Roxy Music "Same Old Scene", 1980)

  

Ink on $teinbach paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011

Elton John Songs Illustrated

11-17-70

Honky Tonk Woman

Music & lyrics by Elton John & The Rolling Stones

WV1266

2008

AZ

 

"When the evening shadows and the stars appear

And there is no one there to dry your tears

I could hold you for a million years

To make you feel my love..."

 

The silhouette of country legend GARTH BROOKS fills the arena...

 

Coloured pencil on $teinbach paper...

   

WV637

2002

 

Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper

A song from the GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD album that was released in 1973 by ELTON JOHN.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Beatles Songs Illustrated

LET IT BE

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Let It Be

Music & lyrics by The Beatles, McCartney-Lennon 1970

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When I find myself in times of trouble

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

And in my hour of darkness

She is standing right in front of me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

 

And when the broken hearted people

Living in the world agree,

There will be an answer, let it be.

For though they may be parted there is

Still a chance that they will see

There will be an answer, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.

There will be an answer, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

 

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah let it be.

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

 

And when the night is cloudy,

There is still a light that shines on me,

Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.

I wake up to the sound of music

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah let it be.

There will be an answer, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah let it be.

There will be an answer, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah let it be.

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

  

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated

MAKING LOVIES

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Expresso Love

Music & lyrics by Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler 1980

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She gets the sun in the daytime

Perfume in the dusk

And she comes out in the night time

With the honeysuckle musk

Because she smells just like a rose

And she tastes just like a peach

She got me walking the wildlife goes

I'd do anything to reach her

 

And she was made in heaven

Heaven's in the world

Is this just expresso love

You know I'm crazy for the girl

 

She call me just to talk

She's my lover she's a friend of mine

She says hey mister you wanna take a walk

In the wild west end sometime

And I get trouble with my breathing

She says boys don't know anything

But I know what I want

I want everything

 

Well I feel so good cos I feel so good

And I feel so good cos it feels so right

I was made to go with my girl

Like a saxophone was made to go with the night

 

And she can raise one eyebrow

Put her hand on my hip

And I close one eye now

Sweat on her lip

And I surrender to the fever

I surrender to the will of the night

She love me so tender I got to believe her

Love ? Expresso love's alright

 

I don't want no sugar in it

Thank you very much

All wired up on it all fired up on it

Expresso touch

Hey maestro expresso

It's just another one just like the other one

Hey maestro expresso

Is this another one just like the other one

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

REG STRIKES BACK

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A Word In Spanish

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1988

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I don't know why

I just know I do

I just can't explain

In this language that I use

Something leaves me speechless

Each time that you approach

Each time you glide right through me

As if I was a ghost

  

If I only could tell you

If you only would listen

I've got a line or two to use on you

I've got a romance we could christen

  

And there's a word in Spanish I don't understand

But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man

He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere

And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears

A word in Spanish, a word in Spanish

  

If you can't comprehend

Read it in my eyes

If you don't understand it's love

In a thin disguise

And what it takes to move you

Each time that you resist

Is more than just a pretty face

To prove that I exist

  

When manners make no difference

And my gifts all lay undone

I trade my accent in on chance

And fall back on a foreign tongue

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2012

Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated

GET LUCKY

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Get Lucky

Music & lyrics by Mark Knopfler 2009

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I'm better with my muscles

Than I am with my mouth

I worked the fairgrounds in the summer

And go pick fruit down south

 

And when I'm feel them chilly winds

Where the weather goes I follow

Pack up my traveling things go with the swallows

 

And I might get lucky now and then

You win some, you might get lucky now and then

You win some

 

I wake up every morning

Keep on eye on what I spent

Gotta think about eating

Gotta think about paying the rent

 

I always think it's funny

It gets me everytime

I wonder about the happiness and money

Tell it to the breadline

 

But you might get lucky now and then

You win some, you might get lucky now and then

You win some

 

Now I'm rambling through this meadow happy as a man can be

Think I just lay me down under this old tree

On and on we go through this old world of shuffling

If you got a truffle dog, you can go truffling

 

But you might get lucky now and then

You win some, you might get lucky now and then

You win some

WV1306/2009

Ink on Steinbach paper

 

"She can kill with a smile

She can wound with her eyes

And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies

And she only reveals

What she wants you to see

She hides like a child

But she's always a woman to me

 

She can lead you to love

She can take you or leave you

She can ask for the truth

But she'll never believe you

And she'll take what you give her

As long as it's free

Yeah, she steals like a thief

But she's always a woman to me

 

Oh, she takes care of herself

She can wait if she wants

She's ahead of her time

Oh, and she never gives out

And she never gives in

She just changes her mind

 

And she'll promise you more

Than the Garden of Eden

Then she'll carelessly cut you

And laugh while you're bleeding

But she'll bring out the best

And the worst you can be

Blame it all on yourself

'Cause she's always a woman to me

 

Oh, she takes care of herself

She can wait if she wants

She's ahead of her time

Oh, and she never gives out

And she never gives in

She just changes her mind

 

She is frequently kind

And she's suddenly cruel

She can do as she pleases

She's nobody's fool

But she can't be convicted

She's earned her degree

And the most she will do

Is throw shadows at you

But she's always a woman to me..."

 

SHE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN - Billy Joel, 1977.

  

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2011

Elton John Songs Illustrated

HONKY CHATEAU

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Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1972

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And now I know

Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say

I thought I knew

But now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City

 

Until you've seen this trash can dream come true

You stand at the edge while people run you through

And I thank the Lord there's people out there like you

I thank the Lord there's people out there like you

 

While Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

Sons of bankers, sons of lawyers

Turn around and say good morning to the night

For unless they see the sky

But they can't and that is why

They know not if it's dark outside or light

 

This Broadway's got

It's got a lot of songs to sing

If I knew the tunes I might join in

I'll go my way alone

Grow my own, my own seeds shall be sown in New York City

 

Subway's no way for a good man to go down

Rich man can ride and the hobo he can drown

And I thank the Lord for the people I have found

I thank the Lord for the people I have found

 

And now I know

Spanish Harlem are not just pretty words to say

I thought I knew

But now I know that rose trees never grow in New York City

 

Subway's no way for a good man to go down

Rich man can ride and the hobo he can drown

And I thank the Lord for the people I have found

I thank the Lord for the people I have found

WV2044/2025

Ecoline ink and coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

 

"When the fire inside that burns so bright begins to grow faded

It can be hard to see the ground on which you stand

Though you may not be afraid of walkin' in the darkness

You will feel like a stranger in this land

 

You can try to carve a faith out of your own

But a broken spirit may dry out the bone

And the edges of the night may cause you sorrow

You know I may not be around this time tomorrow

But I'll always be with you

Yeah, I'll always be with you..."

 

THIS TIME TOMORROW - Brandi Carlile, 2021.

WV787/2005

Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper

 

In search of Stanley & Livingstone...

  

WV1263/2008

Coloured pencil on Steinbach paper

 

"Something in the way she knows

And all I have to do is think of her

Something in the things she shows me..."

 

(LOVE The Beatles, George Harrison)

  

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

JUMP UP!

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Blue Eyes

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Gary Osborne 1982

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Blue eyes

Baby's got blue eyes

Like a deep blue sea

On a blue blue day

Blue eyes

Baby's got blue eyes

When the morning comes

I'll be far away

And I say

  

Blue eyes

Holding back the tears

Holding back the pain

Baby's got blue eyes

And she's alone again

  

Blue eyes

Baby's got blue eyes

Like a clear blue sky

Watching over me

Blue eyes

I love blue eyes

When I'm by her side

Where I long to be

I will see

  

Blue eyes laughing in the sun

Laughing in the rain

Baby's got blue eyes

And I am home, and I am HOME AGAIN

WV738

2002

 

Coloured pencil and soft pastel on Steinbach paper

 

"High on a cliff in Mexico

Staring down at the rocks and the sea below

I can hear the church bells ring

I can hear the choir

 

I remember the night she left

I drove to the station in the pouring rain

Sat all night behind my big iron desk

The oil on the water made a rainbow..."

 

BAD NEWS FROM HOME - Randy Newman, 1988.

WV1349

2009

AZ

And she's far away somewhere...

 

Ink drawing on $teinbach paper

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

BREAKING HEARTS

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1984

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

SLEEPING WITH THE PAST

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Healing Hands

Music & lyrics by Elton John & Bernie Taupin 1989

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I never dreamed I could cry so hard

That ain't like a man

I could fly like a bird some days

Had a place where I could land

  

I could have sworn we were all locked in

Ain't that what you said

I never knew it could hurt so bad

When the power of love is dead

  

But giving into the nighttime

Ain't no cure for the pain

You gotta wade into the water

You gotta learn to live again

  

And reach out for her healing hands

Reach out for her healing hands

There's a light, where the darkness ends

Touch me now and let me see again

Rock me now in your gentle healing hands

  

I never knew love like poison

That burned like a fire

All I ever wanted was a reason

To drown in your eyes

  

I never knew sleep so restless

Empty arms so cold

That's not the way it's supposed to be

It ain't the spell that I was sold

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Elton John Songs Illustrated

Variotons on CANDLE IN THE WIND, a tribute song about MARILYN MONROE, written by Bernie Taupin.

Old76 Music-inspired DArt 2014

Kate Bush Songs Illustrated

THE KICK INSIDE

Moving

Music & lyrics by Kate Bush 1978

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MOVING

Kate Bush

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Moving stranger,

Does it really matter,

As long as you're not afraid to feel?

Touch me, hold me.

How my open arms ache!

Try to fall for me.

 

How I'm moved.

How you move me

With your beauty's potency.

You give me life.

Please don't let me go.

You crush the lily in my soul.

 

Moving liquid

Yes, you are just as water.

You flow around all that comes in your way.

Don't think it over,

It always takes you over,

And sets your spirit dancing.

 

How I'm moved.

How you move me

With your beauty's potency.

You give me life.

Please don't let me go.

You crush the lily in my soul.

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Will Tura Songs Illustrated

WILL TURA NO. 8

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Linda

Muziek & tekst: Will Tura & Nelly Byl 1970

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Linda was met een vriendin

toen ik haar gisteren heb gezien,

en ze heeft meteen naar jou gevraagd

Ze zei: het leven is soms dwaas,

't is wel jammer, maar helaas

hij en ik, we gingen uit elkaar

En Linda heeft tot 's avonds laat

over jou gepraat

Ja, Linda heeft tot 's avonds laat

over jou gepraat

 

Ze is nog altijd even blond

maar een droevig trekje om haar mond

bewees dat ze veel leed had uitgestaan

Ze had geen make-up aangebracht

alsof het nu geen zin meer had

nu je uit haar leven was gegaan

  

Ze zei ik denk nog dikwijls weer

aan al die dagen van weleer

het was de mooiste tijd uit mijn bestaan

Ze leek zo eenzaam en verward

en toen zij je naam uitsprak

zag ik tranen in haar ogen staan

En Linda heeft tot 's avonds laat

over jou gepraat

Ja, Linda heeft tot 's avonds laat

over jou gepraat

 

Doch nee dit is de waarheid niet

maar je hebt nog zo'n verdriet

dat ik jou onmogelijk zeggen kan

waar ik gisteren Linda zag

en hoe stralend mooi ze was

in de armen van een andere man

Linda denkt aan jou niet meer

want ze heeft geen enkele keer

naar jou gevraagd

naar jou gevraagd

WV146/1990

 

Original reworked version...

  

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