POETS AND MUSIC
Music grabs your heart and stirs your soul as many quotes have described. These poets and bards have put into words our feeling and emotions to the world we live in. We mere mortals can only thank them for "that" song that stirs our soul.
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This song is about a recluse locking himself away from the world. When he says, "I am a rock, I am an island," he means away from everything and everyone. It's far from autobiographical, as Paul Simon was doing his best to write a hit song with this effort, and didn't write it for himself. The use of the word "rock" is interesting in that Simon considered himself a folk singer, and didn't associate himself with rock music.
Wild Cherry was a hard rock cover band. With the advent of the disco era, it began to be difficult to get bookings because audiences wanted to dance. While playing at a club in Pittsburgh to a predominantly black audience, a patron said to a band member during a break, "Are you going to play some funky music, white boys?" Rob Parissi grabbed a pen and order pad and wrote the song in about 5 minutes. The lyrics describes the predicament of a hard rock band adjusting to the disco era
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