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I was so very sad to hear of your passing tonight.

You were such a gift, your talent will leave a wide gap in the literary world and will be sadly missed.

One of my favourite songs:

There are so many renditions of this song by many artists, it is just so beautiful.

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- Music: Starry Starry Night (Don McLean Cover) Performed by Lianne La Havas from the film Loving Vincent (2017)

Starry, starry night

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

Swirling clouds in violet haze

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue

Morning fields of amber grain

Weathered faces lined in pain

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand what you tried to say to me

And how you suffered for your sanity

And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you

But still your love was true

And when no hope was left inside

On that starry, starry night

You took your life as lovers often do

But I could have told you, Vincent

This world was never meant

For one as beautiful as you

Songwriter and Lyrics: Don McLean

RiseUp_Andra Day

You're broken down and tired

Of living life on a merry go round

And you can't find the fighter

But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out

And move mountains

We gonna walk it out

And move mountains

And I'll rise up

I'll rise like the day

I'll rise up

I'll rise unafraid

I'll rise up

And I'll do it a thousand times again

And I'll rise up

High like the waves

I'll rise up

In spite of the ache

I'll rise up

And I'll do it a thousands times again

For you

For you

For you

For you

When the silence isn't quiet

And it feels like it's getting hard to breathe

And I know you feel like dying

But I promise we'll take the world to its feet

And move mountains

We'll take it to its feet

And move mountains

Songwriters: Cassandra Monique Batie / Jennifer Decilveo

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Worth a visit to see Fiona Fei's interactive display

The Sound of Silence

Song by Disturbed

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Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams, I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'Neath the halo of a street lamp

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light, I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

People writing songs that voices never shared

And no one dared

Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools" said I, "You do not know

Silence like a cancer grows

Hear my words that I might teach you

Take my arms that I might reach you"

But my words, like silent raindrops fell

And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made

And the sign flashed out its warning

In the words that it was forming

Then the sign said, "The words on the prophets are written on the subway walls

In tenement halls"

And whispered in the sound of

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Songwriters: Gordon Jenkins / Nat Simon

The Sound of Silence lyrics © Paul Simon Music, Pattern Music Ltd.

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Musician and songwriter

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So yes singer- songwriter, Jake... also musician, showman extraordinaire and founder of "Creating The Scene". Check out an acoustic set, "Runaway" joined by my grandsons Jace and Nic

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on the rooftop a song for the falling sun

Fox On The Run_Sweet

Fox on the run

You scream and everybody comes a running

Take a run and hide yourself away

Foxy on the run

F-foxy

Fox on the run

And hide away

Songwriters: Brian Francis Connolly / Stephen Norman Priest / Michael Thomas Tucker / Andrew Scott

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Sweet memories...twilight trimmed in purple haze

And laughing eyes and simple ways

And quiet nights and gentle days with you.

Songwriters: Donald Baldwin / Jeffrey Bowen / Kathy Wakefield

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The best violinist in the world is Lindsey Stirling i am sure this Leeds lass wants to be better?

Lindsey Stirling (born September 21, 1986) is an American violinist, songwriter, and dancer..

She presents choreographed violin performances, in live and music videos found on her official YouTube channel, which she created in 2007.

Stirling performs a variety of music styles, from classical to pop and rock to electronic dance music. Aside from original work, her discography contains covers of songs by other musicians and various soundtracks.

Her music video "Crystallize" finished as the eighth-most watched video of 2012 on YouTube, and her cover version of "Radioactive" with Pentatonix won Response of the Year in the first YouT

ube Music Awards in 2013.

Stirling achieved one million singles sold worldwide by August 2014. As of September 10, 2019, her Lindseystomp YouTube channel exceeded 12 million subscribers and over 3 billion total views.

Stirling has been named in Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 In Music: The Class Of 2015. Forbes notes her quarter-finalist position on America's Got Talent season five in 2010, a No. 2 position on the Billboard 200 for her second album Shatter Me in 2014, and her 11 million subscribers on YouTube.

Stirling's eponymous debut album was a commercial success in Europe, selling 200,000 copies in Germany, winning a platinum certification; three additional certifications were given by Austria, Switzerland and Poland. The album was nominated for the 2014 Billboard Music Awards for Top Dance/Electronic Albums.

Stirling's second album Shatter Me won Top Dance/Electronic Album at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards.

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"I AM ME" - The Song (Official Lyric Video) Fearless Soul

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I am me

I'll never pretend to be another

I will never want to BE another

I will not change who I am just to fit in

I am me

I am not perfect

But I'm working on myself

Working to become the best version of myself

I'm not putting on a mask no more

The true me can't stay hidden

Because I'm not putting on a show no more

I'm not gonna act to fit in

Yeah, I might not be perfect

But I'm working on my best version

I'm on my way

Yes I'm on my way

If I have to I'll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won't

I am me

I can't pretend to be what I'm not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me

If I have to I'll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won't

I am me

I can't pretend to be what I'm not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me

Yes I am me

I am me

I'm not putting on a mask no more

I've got my own life to live

There's so much more I can give

I walk my own path

I won't pretend to be another

Never want to be another

Won't apologize for being me

That's all I can be

Yeah, I might not be perfect

But I'm working on my best version

I'm on my way

Yeah, I'm on my way

If I have to I'll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won't

I am me

I can't pretend to be what I'm not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me

Yeah, I might not be perfect

But I'm working on my best version!

I'm on my way

Because I'm on my way!

If I have to I'll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won't

I am me (I'm me)

I can't pretend to be what I'm not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

Because I am me (I am me)

Yes, I am

Yes, I am me

Songwriters: Nicholas Macri

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️

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British folk singer songwriters performing at Blackwell's in Oxford

The misery of self-isolation...

The song Oh Lonesome Me was written in 1957 by country singer-songwriter Don Gibson. It has been recorded by numerous artists, including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Neil Young.

For Macro Mondays theme 'Vibrant Minimalism'.

The image was done as a seven shot focus stack. The most tricky and time-consuming part was constructing the 'eye' - I punched out a tiny circle of yellow paper and managed to draw on the black pupil (this took a number of attempts), then I lost several of them in the carpet before I managed to get one to stick on the wood.

No wooden puzzle pieces were harmed in the making of this photograph.

My favorite Neil Diamond song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQLWF_ItzYs

Money talks

But it don't sing and dance and it don't walk

And long as I can have you here with me

I'd much rather be forever in blue jeans

Honey's sweet

But it ain't nothin' next to baby's treat

And if you'd pardon me, I'd like to say

We'd do okay forever in blue jeans.

Songwriters: Neil Diamond / Richard Winchell Bennett

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A German songwriter once sang: "Above the clouds, freedom

must be limitless .." The view over the clouds sometimes

brings with it a longing for the distance and for what is behind

the horizon.

View from the Geigenkamm towards Kaunergrat.

Pitztal Tyrol.

I would like to thank you very much for

all comments, awards and faves!

Unfortunately it is not possible for me to

thank everyone personally.

Many greetings from the Tyrol,

the ❤️ of the Alps.

Honky Tonk Wranglers at this year’s Pickin in the Backwoods music festival in Brown County, Indiana.

I've looked at clouds from both sides now

From up and down, and still somehow

It's cloud illusions I recall

I really don't know clouds at all

Both Sides Now.. lyrics by Joni Mitchell

(Canadian singer/songwriter)

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Gloucester Docks, in the city of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Wednesday 31st October 2012.

A brief information about the building in the photo is in Chapter 1.

If you want to know more in-depth history about the area, feel free to skip to Chapter 2.

Chapter 1: About the photograph

I am a graphic designer as well as a photographer. I have been doing some graphic design projects, like a book cover design, a fictional movie posters, packaging designs, and in this case, an album art cover for a fictional CD.

The subject of the non-existence and made-up album is about a female singer-songwriter, who used to live in an old industrial town during her childhood days, and decided to leave her hometown, to seek stardom in the world of music.

The name of the album is The Old Dying Town. It is supposed to imply that the coal mines have dried up, the factories closed down, the town lost its cinema and nightlife, and too many people leaving. The town could easily become a ghost town.

So for the design theme of the album art, I needed black and white photos of old buildings, coal mines, abandoned factories, and anything like that. Thankfully I was aware of the old warehouses in Gloucester that had been left run down.

So I drove there, parked my car, and walked around, looking for some of the few old buildings that would be useful as background for the album art design.

The camera was set to black and white mode, and I took the photographs. I did not think to take the photos in colour, then covert into black and white while using photo-editing software. It’s a habit from the old days of using film cameras, where I would load either colour or black and white roll of film.

That was around the year of 2012, and thankfully few years before those old warehouses by the docks, were redeveloped into modern apartments.

In this photo: The viewpoint of this photo was taken from the High Orchard Lift Bridge on St Ann Way, looking in the rough direction of northeast.

Originally in the past, this was part of the Llanthony Provender Mill. It was built in 1862 for Foster Brothers Oil and Cake Mill, which processed vegetable seeds into oil. The cake is a product made from seeds after the oil had been extracted, and used as animal feed.

In early 1950s, the company moved to Avonmouth, and the mill closed, then sold to West Midlands Farmers as a distribution depot, until mid-1990s, then it fell into a state of disrepair and dereliction until the 2010s when it would be bought for redevelopment.

On the left side of the photo, the tall building had been damaged in an arson attack c2015, and was later redeveloped into 47 luxury apartments, and restaurants on the ground floor.

The smaller side building, seen on the right side of the photo, had been turned into a Beefeater steakhouse restaurant.

Chapter 2: The history of the Gloucester Docks.

In medieval times, this area was an orchard belonging to the nearby Llanthony Secunda Priory, a house for the canons.

Historically, materials and goods were mostly transported by boats up the River Severn to Gloucester. By around 1580, Queen Elizabeth I granted Gloucester the status of a customs port.

In the early 1800s, a canal was built, and during the Victorian times, warehouses and industrial buildings were built on the site, which benefited from the newly opened Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.

There were various kinds of businesses on the site. Companies that imported timber and prepared them for the building industry, some iron works factories, and even a flour-milling buildings were also presented at the site.

Over time during the 20th century, some companies closed because of the difficulties in trying to compete against rival businesses, some buildings had caught fire, and many other factors. By the late 20th century, many of the buildings were left empty.

During the 2010s, most of High Orchard buildings were redeveloped as Gloucester Quays outlet shopping centre, and many of the other buildings were redeveloped as luxury flats (apartments).

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It looks like the owner of this building is a fan of Tom Waits.

writer's night. nolan's irish pub. cocoa beach, florida. me. sam hodak. sharing the stage. late.

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thanks, tina.

A poet, songwriter and all around decent human being.

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Canteen Brewhouse, Albuquerque

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Edited book cover, The Songwriters by Tony Stoneacre.

Published in 1980.

Sydney

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?" – Bob Hope

"Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

In the lane, snow is glistening

A beautiful sight

We're happy tonight

Walking in a winter wonderland"

Songwriter: Jeremy Stuart Smith

Walking In A Winter Wonderland - Dean Martin

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Credits:

Head: LeL EvoX

Body: Maitreya Lara

Hair: Doux - Martina

Ears: L'Etre - Ringed mesh ears

Skin: Skinnery

Gown: =Zenith=Gothic Victorian long dress (Cream) -Maitreya

Rings: \//.VoluptasVirtualis - Ophelia

Viewer: Firestorm

Lighting: FAC ShadowLights Studio v1.1

Made at Sunny's Studio:

Winter Magic Pose 3

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Concerto 20 luglio 2020

Nato a Nuoro nel 1949, inizia giovanissimo la sua carriera musicale suonando in band locali. Nel 1971 è tastierista cantante con il Gruppo 2001, che si colloca nella scena del rock progressivo italiano. Nel 1974 inizia la sua carriera da solista.

Ad un primo periodo di canzoni in lingua italiana ha fatto seguito l'impegno artistico in lingua sarda. I contenuti delle sue canzoni fanno riferimento a personaggi e atmosfere della cultura sarda.

Nel 2000 ha cantato con Dionne Warwick al Concerto di Natale in Vaticano, trasmesso in mondovisione.

Nel 2003 è stato premiato dalla Fondazione Ignazio Silone “per l’alto valore culturale dei suoi testi”.

Piero Marras is a Sardinian singer-songwriter, born in Nuoro in 1949 he began his musical career at a very young age playing in local bands. In 1971 he was a keyboard player and singer with Gruppo 2001, which is part of the Italian progressive rock scene. In 1974 he began his solo career.

An initial period of songs in Italian was followed by artistic commitment in the Sardinian language. The content of his songs refers to characters and atmospheres of Sardinian culture.

In 2000 he sang with Dionne Warwick at the Christmas Concert in the Vatican, broadcast worldwide.

In 2003 he was awarded by the Ignazio Silone Foundation "for the high cultural value of his lyrics".

Greg Hancock, Sarah Yeo and Alex Seel at St Paul's Church, Starcross, Devon, England.

See my other Starcross Church concert photos.

Donald MacArthur Ker is the author of "The Differences Between Women and Men at Funerals in Lethen Nairnshire" and other poems.

Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. AB800 with gridded HOBD-W overhead. Triggered by Cybersync.

From Heaven's Gate

Photography by Vilmos Zsigmond

Prateek Poddar, singer - songwriter, while performing at Union Coffee Co. on January 6th, 2018

musician and songwriter

Titel citaat uit Suzanne

Liedje van Herman van Veen

Songwriter Leonard Cohen

But he himself was broken

Long before the sky would open

At LEA3 is a contest called Photo Hunt, you can participate, go here to locate the website with the meeting times; maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA3/59/231/42

This week we were given an hour to capture the best photo we could. Congratulations to the winners and this was my entry, (although my entry was unedited. Part of the rules).

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Portrait of new friend Rio, one half of the band known as River Tramps. Check them out on www.rivertrampsmusic.com

I had the great fortune to shoot with rising

star, singer-songwriter Aubrey Burchell. This industrious songstress is busy gigging around the local area, and beyond, while also creating original songs, the next of which will be released during the coming month or so.

Her musical stylings convey a bold contemporary vibe with undertones of blues and funk. Be sure to catch her at one of Westmoreland County's many cozy local live music venues, or find her work online!

www.facebook.com/AubreyBurchellMusic/

Shot on medium format

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Entry for Astronomy Photographer of the Year:

This is a 9 image stitch. 5 for the sky, 4 for the landscape. Images were taken consecutively, in as tight a time period as possible.

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, USA

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*long sigh of relief*

Man, it feels good to have this one done.

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.

It's a 9 pano stitch. 5 exposures for the sky, 4 for the landscape. It's been a bear to process and edit. But I am psyched to see this printed as large as it can go!

I've lived here in Oregon for 3 yrs now, and this was my first trip to this National Park. Chip McAlpine was kind to have me along on his trip. He saw the break in the weather in the perfect star conditions and made the trip. I freaked out when I heard he was going and begged myself along. I can't thank him enough for the opportunity and the fact he did all the driving while I snored!

This image represents alot of effort for me. It put a strain on me physically, emotionally, mentally, and even with my relationships. I am very pleased with the result and am happy that if there was something to put all the strain on life- then this may have lived up to the demands.

Being a digital photographer is a weird thing. I consider myself a creative artist, but the process and lifestyle seems comical compared to other traditional arts. If you sit in front of a canvas on an easel painting for a month, it's evident you're a painter and the work process is very viewable. If you're a songwriter, you can spend night after night at the piano hammering out the melody and lyrics. It's not wondered what you're doing when someone walks in on you. A writer has some of that mystery in the process I guess.

But, as a digital photographer- it's a struggle to justify the process of sitting in front of a computer for three days to process something. If I was a film photographer, then spending three nights in the darkroom makes sense. But, three days in front of Photoshop and Lightroom seems more like I'm just surfing the web. *laughing*

We have a new reality to accept.

Anyway, amazing trip. Amazing experience.

Here's a "night shooters" blessing I'm working on,

"May your skies be clear,

The moon rise behind you,

Your batteries fully charged,

And your morning drive home safe."

Thanks for visiting :-)

Debut album cover.

David Foster is one of the most successful songwriters of all-time. The 16-time Grammy Award winning producer-songwriter has written chart-topping international hits for artists such as Earth, Wind & Fire, Chicago, Céline Dion, and Whitney Houston, as well as culture-defining soundtracks for blockbuster films .

On board the Chris Botti at Sea II tour.

PHASES Tour 2017

Photographed for Under the Radar Magazine

Riviera Theatre

Chicago, IL

December 9th, 2017

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