Imagine

You can read elsewhere ‘ all about the girl who came to stay’. but is another Beatles song that makes it to my playlist. In truth it could just as easily be a song by Richie Havens called ‘I started a joke’ but copyright issues make that song difficult to access so ‘Imagine’ it is.

Do you believe in ‘love at first sight’? well I do. There I was in A beautiful village in Greece surrounded by history. I had met a wonderful woman who simply enchanted me. We sat on a roof- top of a villa. The lights from the town and bay flickering in the warm breeze. An ancient record player played but the two discs it had, on repeat. The Beatles and an Album by Richie Havens. Two songs stick in both our minds. As I have written else where this is the place that I suppose Liz and I fell in love and where we set out the first tentative steps of our life together. What Liz was wearing, how her nails were painted her jewellery are printed in my mind as if it were yesterday. Imagine is a song that carried a message that resonated with the youth of the day. I know it carries its message now but then it was different or so I seem to remember. I cannot waste the chance to offer my thanks to this wonderful woman. She is beside me still today brightening my existence and I love her more than any words can say.

My fourth song: Imagine The Beatles. (check out Richie Havens I started a joke if you can too)