![]() That tradition held no power over you anymore. The idea that the world could be new again, or at least that you could be that the new was something actual, something real, something coming, unexpected. Pop, for lack of a better word, offered a new way of living that worked– primary passions, primary colours. It was a revolution that worked, he wrote. It was like the start of a revolution coming in with the big noise right at the beginning of the whole thing. Everyone felt this-the start of the teenage thing. When he saw Rock Around the Clock in a Northampton cinema, when he heard the first Elvis singles at a “Yank pub” on its great German-made jukebox, it was the start of something. The England I love is an England of constant change.Īnd in 19, in lorry driver caffs and in shabby pubs in shabby corners of towns, he felt a new change coming on. Gosling would spend his life chronicling movements, making films and radio documentaries, a life that he foreshadowed in the jittery staccato rhythms of his prose. The moves and wanderings of the Me towards some point of definition, some lines of discipline. As the title said, it was a short life tallied up, biography as a few jottings on a map. Ray Gosling died last month, a lifetime after he wrote an autobiography at age 22, Sum Total. History has receded into the distance, and so has the future. They don’t look back anywhere near as much as we used to, as I used to. I don’t think people take much time to look back these days. You, you should have taken your chances, made the most of it-always make the most of it, never let go, it might be the only one, ever…I’m in another city. It came true once and it can come true again…And all the time I wander round this plot of land, and I still keep the dream…We all move on, all of us. I haven’t given that up, but it’s a dream a dream that can come true. Something In the Air ( American Psycho remix, 2000). ![]() Something In the Air ( Musique Plus, 1999). Something In the Air ( Nulle Part Ailleurs, 1999). Something In the Air ( Jools Holland, 1999). Something In the Air ( Omikron sequence).
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