There Are Places I Remember: Songs About Places
15/03/2019
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Last Night in Soho (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich ) 1968 For last night in Soho I let my life go I emerged from Leicester Sq...
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24/08/2018
Old Shanghai
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There are places which have always carried an irresistible air of far away and exotic mystery for me from an early age, including bot...
29/07/2012
Rainbow Valley
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A previous column (Voyage to Atlantis ) mentioned some songs about places that exist only in fantasy, like The Land of Grey and Pink...
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15/07/2012
Dubrovnik
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A constant theme in this blog has been that places spark particular associations. Sometimes these can be so specific that everyone...
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01/07/2012
Central Park
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The park as a place to go has cropped up a few times before, in For What Is Chatteris and Trafalgar Square . Parks have been one of t...
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17/06/2012
Champs Elysees
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Everybody probably has a notion somewhere inside of their head of some special place they have a yearning to see, sometimes realistic...
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01/06/2012
Wild West End
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The West End of London is a flexible term. It can mean that shopping area round Oxford Street and Regent Street, the focus of the Ever...
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18/05/2012
Helsinki/HKI
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An earlier column looked at Finland, where the song Finland by the Redwoods seemed to me to capture the feeling of the country th...
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05/05/2012
La Costa Brava
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An earlier column wrote of Andalucia in Southern Spain. It is an evocative name in many ways, of Moorish architecture and olive groves ...
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