I first started writing songs with my sister way back in
1965. Needless to say the first tunes were pretty silly, a
bit like the stuff that passes for 'pop' now, except that they
market & sell it, and we were too embarrassed to bother,
always looking for that original and very BIG tune (with words!)
A few phases later, I was using poems by Blake, Yeats, Brooke
& others, not thinking that this was unusual as there was so much
creative stuff around in the 60's & 70's, it was hard to know what not
to listen to...
It's much easier now. There is hardly any difference between songs or
singers... just a lot of quantity... albeit nicely packaged...
Take my hand, take my heart 
But when I watch really young
kids listening to ME,
I realise that there is some hope for all of us and
we just have to sit & wait for the next great age
to magically appear whilst ignoring all that
dross,...and there is such a lot of dross...
On a positive note, I see a lot of young boys
carrying guitars & bags of stuff around...
Maybe some of them are bothering to
read 'the dots' as well..?!?
I realise that there is some hope for all of us and
we just have to sit & wait for the next great age
to magically appear whilst ignoring all that
dross,...and there is such a lot of dross...
On a positive note, I see a lot of young boys
carrying guitars & bags of stuff around...
Maybe some of them are bothering to
read 'the dots' as well..?!?