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Forget Her (1993) .... Jeff Buckley

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" ...the best breakup anthem ever... " @danielchance7021 (2020) US single, 2004. Contents Breakup blues Recording & performance Rebecca Moore Epilogue Reference -------------------- 1. Breakup blues One of the most intimate and heartfelt songs by the late American singer / songwriter / guitarist Jeff Buckley (1966-1997) is the heartbreak anthem Forget Her . Likely written around the time of its earliest known performance at the Bearsville Theatre, Woodstock, New York, on 20 September 1993, it speaks of a personal breakup between Buckley and his girlfriend of the previous three years. Both lyrically and musically it is full of personal angst and Buckley's inability to "forget her." The lyrics - written in the heat of the breakup - are brutal and seek to blame and shame the other. [NB: the following lyrics are taken from the US single release of 2004 and derive from the1993-4 Grace sessions; words in brackets thus [....] are fro...
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Kate Bush - Running up that Hill (A Deal With God)

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UK 12" maxi single, 1985. Contents A Deal with God The music video Recordings, performances & interviews Commentaries References -------------------- 1. A Deal with God One of the writer's favourite  Kate Bush  live performances is of the 1985 hit Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)  from London during March 1987, and featuring David Gilmour of Pink Floyd on guitar. It is a powerful, enthusiastic rendition, with slide guitar replicating the original synthesized refrain. Thirty seven years after the song's release, it achieved world-wide hit status and became Bush's first US Top 10 single as a result of its inclusion in the 2022 soundtrack of the Netflix series Stranger Things . During that year it went on to top Spotify charts with on average 6 million hits per day over a number of weeks (Picci 2022, Doyle 2024). Presented below are various versions of the song, both by Bush and other artists, alongside contemporary promotional materia...
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Cornelius O'Brien and Kangaroo Valley

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Shoalhaven: | Aunty Julie Freeman | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Cornelius O'Brien | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | First Nations research | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Kangaroo Valley | Mickey of Ulladulla | Mount Gigenbullen | Byamee's Hands, Shoalhaven River | Ulladulla Mission | Words | Yams | | Aborigines / Indigenous / First Nations archive | Kangaroo Valley, 1912 1. Introduction Cornelius O'Brien (1796-1869) is a minor figure in early Australian colonial history. At the age of 19 he arrived in Sydney from Ireland during 1815. O'Brien initially settled with his family at William Browne's Appin property and worked in the Illawarra before going on to acquire various properties, primarily at Bulli and then Yass (King 1965, Scott 1967, Browne 1975). He also occupied land at East Bargo, Bathurst and Kangaroo Valley. O'Brien has been written about...
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Alice in Wonderland - the missing Star review 1865

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Alice in Wonderland: Alice in OZ | Australian books | Australian books (presentation) | Christian Yandell's Alice | Alice on Film | Poster 1968 | Pre-Raphaelite photographer | Poster 1977 | Star review 1865 | Whitcombe's Alice | Contents When and where? Alice Downunder The Australian search Star search References -------------------- Abstract : A search of Australian newspapers from the period December 1865 through 1866 with the word Star in their title has failed to locate a missing December 1865 review of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as noted in the author's diary. It is therefore likely that the review is to be found in a similarly titled, though elusive, United Kingdom publication. ------------------ 1. When and where? During April 2025 the present writer was contacted by the secretary of the British Lewis Carroll Society seeking information on a missing 1865 review ...
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