Have just been watching top of the pops 79 from BBC4,did I see a very young George Ford ,playing with the Shadows/Dont Cry For Me Argentina.

Yes you did. Although he wasn't as young as he was when he was a 'Cockney Rebel'. I always remember George with a smile on his face. During the Shadows performance he looked a bit sad. Maybe it was the song!

Mr Raffles wrote:
Maybe it was the band? Never much cared for them.



George also worked with Peter Skellern, Linda Lewis and Al Stewart. Sadly, I believe he passed away in 2007.

Hi Stella,

what do make of this track? I do enjoy playing all of 'Score' whenever I did out the vinyl, but here is Steve in a jazzy mood on this track.

(Re Time Is No Healer)
Hi GedKen.
Don't know why you're asking me? but I like it, and having looked at some of the rest of the album on youtube clips I think it was probably the best track on the album. On the face of it it's a soothing bluesy number (I especially loved the flute playing in it!) but I was tempted to look further in to the lyrics and knowing Steve's love of T. S. Eliot and remembering he chose T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets as his subject on Celebrity Mastermind, wondered if he was inspired with the title of the track by a line in The Dry Salvages. Here's a snippet

"I sometimes wonder if that is what Krishna meant—
Among other things—or one way of putting the same thing:
That the future is a faded song, a Royal Rose or a lavender spray
Of wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret,
Pressed between yellow leaves of a book that has never been opened.
And the way up is the way down, the way forward is the way back.
You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,
That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.".

You can find the whole of T.S Eliot's Four Quartet's here www.paikassociates.com/pdf/fourquartets.pdf
They're worth a read.

and I found a good analysis of the poem here
mum.edu/msvs/9199TerryDry.html

But maybe I'm reading far too much into it?

I don't think you are reading too much into it, Stella. I think Steve's lyrics are very deep indeed. My favourite song, as some will know, is "All Men Are Hungry". I love trying to work out what the deeper meaning of the lyrics actually is. I have my theories, but........