STILL SOMETHING TO RAVE ABOUT
My friend Mark and I sometimes have similar tastes in music. When he starts raving about something I know that it is either the cheesiest thing, and I best stay away from it, or it is something truly great. I mean back in the 70s Mark knew that Tommy James was more than just bubblegum music. I didn't know anyone like that except myself. He had this fantastic stereo and he put on 'Kathleen Macarthur" and wow! I once played Tracy Chapman's "Baby Can I Hold You" and told him, that this was the best music video ever created, and without hesitation he agreed and confessed that he once spent a whole day just playing it over and over, he couldn't turn it off. The point is, years ago when Charlotte Church was all the rage, he came to me and told me I had to see this (her first concert video), and we both agreed that we were looking at something unusual. It was like getting the chance to see Mozart when he was alive. Charlotte does have a voice like an angel--no strike that, she is one.