MLT Club Member Jürgen
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Hi JP,
well my dear, the hints are pretty poor: “I’m just trying to find the bridge” , “Has anybody seen the bridge?“.
I asked my buddy google. But he didn’t know exactly where this damned bridge should be either. Do you have a clue? The piece sounds a lot like James Brown.
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And now the “Celtic” contrast program: The Albert Bridge was built in 1873 and is a road bridge over the River Thames connecting Chelsea in Central London on the north bank to Battersea on the south.
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Hi David,
I really didn’t want to use the term bridge too narrowly. You’re right, there probably aren’t that many songs about a specific bridge. London Bridge also came to mind, not sure if we mean the same song. In elementary school we learned a song about the Bridge of Avignon. And the Anglo-Irish band „The Pogues“ sang about the Albert Bridge in London. I have actually also thought of songs that have the term bridge in the title or that are about bridges in the figurative sense so what you mean by metaphorical.
The following song, a chanson version of an original children’s song, is about the bridge of Avignon. This bridge of the city of the same name is located in southern France (Provence) and is considered as a landmark of the city. Along with the Palais des Papes and the Avignon Cathedral, it has been recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
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On the subject of bridges, I spontaneously thought of the song “View from a Bridge” by Kim Wilde. I love 80s pop (have I already mentioned this….😀?) But this kind of music seems to me to be a slow seller here in the forum, so I’ll try it with Sting. Maybe you can think of other pieces of music on the subject of bridges. I’m curious.
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“Travel – it leaves you speechless, then it turns you into a storyteller.”
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Hi Jung,
that sounds like a great idea. Don’t forget your travel diary for the certainly impressive travel memoirs and if you’ve really been there, please share your travel experiences with us. I am exited. Maybe it looks like this….
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I remember the Ladder Sketch ????. Grover is his name? I only know him as “Grobi”. Hectic little guy. I always liked him.
And another very special Beatles presentation:
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Yes David, Cloud Nine is somehow a special album. Some of George Harrison’s previous releases, which I also like very much, sometimes sounded a bit melancholic. This album seems somehow different: fresh, unspent and full of optimism.
Maybe not the best song on the album, but the music video is again full of whimsical, funny ideas.
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George Harrison and his rockin’ living room:
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Charles Spencer “Charlie” Chaplin was born in London on 16 April 1889 and shot most of his films in the US. However, he brought his English humour with him in his hand luggage. Incidentally, he founded the film company “United Artists” together with several other artists and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Hollywood dream factory.
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Oh yes, the Babel fish David. I unfortunately lost mine somewhere near Betelgeuse many years ago (and I left my towel there too). If only I had paid more attention, I would have been spared frequent leafing through the Oxford Dictonary and many a film subtitle. I love HHGTTG. The BBC production rather not. I watched it on TV as a teenager and thought it was pretty idiotic (I almost didn’t read the books, it would have been almost as awful as the Vogons digging up my garden). Someday I read the books after all. And I understood: 42.
I also like “The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul” very much (by the way, the German title of the book is: “Der lange dunkle Fünfuhrtee der Seele”. German book publishers have the bad habit of giving translated books a different title. This one still works, but some books or films are simply unrecognisable from the title). I am also a fan of Stanislaw Lem (Polish physicist and writer). Maybe you know him too. His humour is at least as weird as Douglas Adams’. I can recommend: “The Futorolgian Congress” and “The Star Diaries”.
This song was used in a shortened form by the BBC as the title for their version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
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Great David. Thank you for snatching the post from the black (server) hole. A very nice idea on top: Bridges are wondrous structures that have made it possible for us to travel to many hidden parts of the world. I have no idea what good reasons there are to go to Louisiana, but a trip across this remarkable bridge is probably one of them. There are bridges like sand on the sea and videos on this topic as well. I found the following video that introduces some very beautiful bridges in this world.
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…and this one…
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Ha, ha, ha, Jung: “Top Cat”. When I look at the neighbor’s cats as they walk through our yard: they are so cute and sweet, but don’t be fooled: Cats are the most underrated pets.
Look at this…
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David, I know, I know, this is a music forum, so one last time Literature: Tom Sharpe, born 1928 in London. If you know him well, then you certainly know his fictional character Henry Wilt: a not particularly assertive vocational school teacher. Surrounded by resigned colleagues and ignorant students who are interested in everything but school, in his free time he dreams of getting rid of his callous wife. Until one day he slips into an almost real murder case and suddenly, to make matters worse, the London police are on his heels and he has to realize: the life of a vocational school teacher can be uncomfortably exciting. Where Tom Sharpe is, Ben Aaronovitch isn’t far either. Also a London writer. He is best known for his book series “The Rivers of London”. This is about Constable Peter Grant from the Metropolitan Police in London, who, together with his superior, the magician Nightingale, solves crimes committed by ghosts, vampires and other supernatural beings. Seasoned with a lot of black English humor. Very British, and here the right music to go with it:
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David, a little addendum to Lem: he studied medicine, not physics (I made a small editorial mistake there. But it doesn’t matter, because the two courses of study are so similar, it’s so easy to make a mistake). But Lem has written fantastic science fiction books, I’m almost certain of that. His classics are „Eden“, „Solaris“ and „The Invincible“. And again shortly for the BBC production of THHTTG: as I said, I was a teenager. Maybe I should give the series another chance, now that life has made me mature and wise.????
Where Douglas Adams is, Terry Pratchet is not far away (wasn’t he also a physicist? ha,ha). I particularly liked the novel “Mort” from the Discworld cycle. There is also a nice film version of a part of his novels with the melodious title “The colour of magic”. I guess you know it.