Another weekend hoves into view; and it's another milestone - the last Bank Holiday we have in the UK until Xmas! But at least it is a nice long weekend to look forward to, and with the added bonus that for once I've been paid before the break, rather than afterwards...
All this and, sharing the day as he does with a weird combination of fellow celebrants that includes Tolstoy, national treasure Stephen Fry, novelist A. S. Byatt, R2D2 (the late Kenny Baker), politician and abolitionist William Wilberforce, transgender campaigner Marsha P Johnson, caricaturist Max Beerbohm, Jean-Michel Jarre and Yasser Arafat, it's the birthday today of the cool'n'sexy one from Shalamar, Mr Jeffrey Daniel.
Thus, we have a perfect excuse to delve into the archives of the band who preserved Disco for the 80s generation, and Thank Disco It's Bank Holiday Friday!
There it is, there it is
What took us so long, ooh, to find each other, baby?
There it is, there it is
This time I'm not wrong
In the sea of love we set our sails when waters were up
Two in search of love with no direction
Fish were biting at the time when catching wasn't enough
We couldn't make a sport of our affection
And who could change that we would sail into each other
Ooh girl, I never felt the wave of love so strong
And this love I never felt in any other
I trust it like the light, how this guides the ship to land
I found it when you touched my hand
There it is
What took us so long for a love so strong?
There it is, there it is
This time I'm not wrong
That's poetry, that is.
Have a good one, dear reader!
I've been reading up a lot on her lately, so happy(as I write this, belated) birthday Marsha P. Johnson, who left (or was brutally taken from) us much too soon.
ReplyDeleteNo-one really knows the truth of her demise, and even the facts of her life (how heavily she was in fact involved in the Stonewall riots, for example) are sketchy, given her volatile mental state and the contrary stories she used to tell. Still, she is certainly recognised as a pioneer today, with numerous movies telling bits of her tale, and RuPaul calling her "The Drag Mother". Antony and the Johnsons were even named in her honour. Remarkable... Jx
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