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Album Details
- Artist: Ralph McTell
- Single: Streets Of London / Summer Lightning
- Label: Reprise
- Year of Release: 1974
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on 2011-11-02 CharlesMartel Said:
This is a quite beautiful but sad song. Even today, over thirty years after it was written, the lonely characters roaming the streets of Ralph McTell's London are still there. A few more can be added the runaway girl who faces prostituting herself to get money to buy food and stay alive and the alcoholic ex-soldier returned from Afghanistan to a grateful country and rewarded with homelessness and unemployment. But the poignancy of the song's message, that it is possible to be bereft and lonely in one of the world's largest, most crowded and vibrant cities, still rings true. Politicians should be forced to listen to this every time they take office. If you found Phil Collins' " Another Day in Paradise " moving then try this. This is a far superior song and much simpler as well.
Rating: 8/10
