Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

It awed me a little, listening to the water boatmen, to think of all these sounds, barely noticed but an essential part of the orchestraThere's something about the beginning of spring that always makes me think of an orchestra tuning up. Walking through London Fields at the weekend, I was listening to the birdsong gathering pace, to the woodpigeons and the blackbirds, the song and the mistle thrushes, and the greenfinches, the robins, the wrens and the starlings. I stood underneath the plane tre...

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