17th September Living forever


They say that one of the things that makes songs so memorable is that they are able to transport you back in time and place. And sometimes that time and place has very little connection with the actual content of the song. 

For me the Oasis song, 'Live Forever' will always take me back to Bangladesh, and travelling up on the roof of a bus in amongst all the luggage,(don't ask why) as we made our way through fields of endless green under a cloudless blue sky, It is as you can work out for yourself hardly the strongest natural connection with the Gallagher brothers and their Mancunian swagger.

 

It is one of my favourite rock anthems, but given the regular animosity between the Gallagher brothers, many people included myself have wondered how a song written by Noel but sung by Liam might sound sung by the person who actually wrote it. Wrote it perhaps back in 1994 as an angry young man some but now performed by a slightly less angry, more reflective older man. This week all that wondering came to an end with this stunning rendition performed on Radio 2's Sofa Sessions. Sit back and enjoy.



 



 

 



 

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