Each to their own, but for me this is not only Mr Stewart's best song but one of the the stand out love songs of the popular era. May be it's the memories it invokes for me. The album was bought as a 'goodbye' gift from someone I was falling for and I still - nearly 40 years on - think about her when I hear the track. But it is also the simplicity, the brevity and the poetry. And yet when I saw him a couple of years ago, and Rod performed over 40 songs including a load of those American Songbook nonsense, and Mandolin Wind was nowhere to be heard. Ho hum. Maybe Shakespeare didn't like Romeo and Juliet (though actually I'm more of a Henry IV parts I and II kind of boy). KC
Each to their own, but for me this is not only Mr Stewart's best song but one of the the stand out love songs of the popular era. May be it's the memories it invokes for me. The album was bought as a 'goodbye' gift from someone I was falling for and I still - nearly 40 years on - think about her when I hear the track. But it is also the simplicity, the brevity and the poetry. And yet when I saw him a couple of years ago, and Rod performed over 40 songs including a load of those American Songbook nonsense, and Mandolin Wind was nowhere to be heard. Ho hum. Maybe Shakespeare didn't like Romeo and Juliet (though actually I'm more of a Henry IV parts I and II kind of boy). KC