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Do songs just leap into your head? It happens to me a lot. A fragment of speech or even just a single word, a particular rhythm to something, the cadence of someone’s speech. Today it was the sea while I was trying (and failing) to get some good wave pictures. Cat Stevens song “Wild World” just leapt into my head. I normally get the songs in stereo with all the parts too, in this case 2 guitars and a bass:

Cat was 60 last month and he converted to Islam and became Yusuf Islam 30 years ago. As well as being a fine singer and guitarist he’s a great songwriter, and in addition to his own hits, “The First Cut Is The Deepest” is his song too. He’s also won several awards for his work in promoting peace, and spoke out against the September 2001 attacks immediately after they happened.

“Baby, I love you
But if you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware

Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world”

Isn’t that a lovely sentiment at the end of a relationship?

Cheers, Tom.