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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Roz Kravitz

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Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence - Madison Square Garden, NYC - 2009/10/29&30

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Sound Of Silence Lyrics

Simon And Garfunkel

Bridge Over Troubled Water

60s Music

Folk Rock

The Sound of Silence - Wikipedia

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Simon & Garfunkel - I Am A Rock

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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.

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70s Rock Bands

1970s Music

Disco Funk

Play That Funky Music

Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music

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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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Bob Dylan Forever Young

Forever Young 2

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Somewhere Over the Rainbow | Content in a Cottage

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Always On My Mind WILLIE NELSON (with lyrics)

Pretty Woman Richard

Woman Song

John Lennon Lyrics

You Are Beautiful Quotes

You Are So Beautiful To Me

Beautiful Women Quotes

Roy Orbison

Oldies Music

A Love So Beautiful

Oh, Pretty Woman" or simply "Pretty Woman" is a song recorded by Roy Orbison, written by Orbison and Bill Dees. It was released as a single in 1964 and spent 3 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The title was inspired by Orbison's wife, Claudette, interrupting a conversation to announce she was going out. When Orbison asked if she had enough cash, his co-writer Bill Dees interjected, "A pretty woman never needs any money." In 1999, the song was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.

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Starship - We Built This City (on Rock N Roll) Live 1985

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Co-writers martin page and bernie taupin have stated that the song is about the decline of live performance clubs in Los Angeles during the 1980s. The lyrics are structured as a plea to corporate interests who are shutting down rock music clubs because the corporations are concerned only with profits and respectability ), and have forgotten that rock music was what brought people together.

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Modern English are a new wave/post-punk band from Colchester, Essex, England. They formed in 1979 and disbanded in 1987, only to reform two years later and then disband after another two years.

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The name of the song is Summer of ’69. Jim Vallance, a co-writer of this song, explained that the song was originally called "Best Days Of My Life". The album made Bryan Adams a star.

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