and my personal favourite song of mine.

Another thought provoking diary entry today JK and same with “Melancholy Man”..
You have a very good singing voice from this song to all the other styles you’ve done..
Did you take singing lessons and do vocal exercises?
I’m a pretty hopeless singer myself...

One day I hope to return to London Town and visit..

I remember reading years ago how you were approached to tour the UK as a live act
(artist/band) when you were having a string of hits..

What made you decide to remain a studio musician/artist and not venture
onto the the stage floor?

Could be good for tomorrow’s video diary..

Education is the issue. Without education you can't have democracy, because the uneducated don't think beyond themselves, they don't think beyond the short term, etc etc. But governments who like to call themselves democracies don't want an educated electorate because they'd be damned troublesome and would ask too many questions and complain too much. So we're actively encouraged to be as thick as pig shit.

Take Brexit. One group of idiots voting to leave for all kinds of irrelevant reasons. One group of (much smugger and more self-admiring) idiots voting to stay for equally ill-informed reasons. Neither group had the intelligence to make a seriously wise decision. The government made a bunch of idiots and then made the mistake of asking them to make a decision for them. Oops.

Take your comment about 'common sense' and self-isolation: if you get a cold, you self isolate. True. But this is the opposite of what the average twit does. He or she will get a cold and then stagger round the office, the train and the tube, moaning about what a terrible cold they've got, coughing into everyone's faces, until they're better again and everyone else has 'mysteriously' caught a cold. (Which is never a common cold, of course - it's 'The Flu'. Much more exciting and dramatic. I wonder what people will say once this is all over when they get a cold: 'Oh, I've got the corona virus' when they mean they've got the sniffles.)

Look at yesterday in London: 'Oooh, let's all stand close together and clap the NHS, even though by doing so we'll probably create more work for the NHS'.

It's common sense that is lacking. Which is why the government now has to keep poking people with sharp sicks to behave as if they've got 'common sense'.

So... Yes, the media likes a good story; yes, people are always attracted to gossip and sensation; yes, humans have behaved like lemmings for millennia. BUT, in my opinion, these traits have all inadvertently combined to produce the most hopeful moment I can remember in all my 64 years of Earth-dwelling!

Millions (billions?) have stopped doing unnecessary jobs, going on wasteful journeys, being poorly educated in concrete bunkers. The planes and cars and noise and pollution are lessening by the day. It is as though there is a huge rehab going on. Of course, many folk in rehab relapse, and return to their old addictions, distractions & delusions - but some will not. And, just maybe, a critical mass will not - and something akin to “humanity” will finally arise?

We have confirmed that the only people who really matter are growers, carers and cleaners. Everyone else may as well take up playing music, writing, painting, sculpting, dancing, acting - not to sell, just for the joy of it. Our “ignorant” ancestors were so efficient at sustaining themselves that they could build vast landscape temples and cathedrals in their spare time! Without a grant, just for pleasure.

Perhaps we will stop packing the young and the old and the vulnerable into concentration camps so the The Great God “Economy” can continue to grow like a demonic Mr Creosote. Maybe Covid-19 is the “waffer thin mint”!

We might, instead, choose to live in neighbourhoods where we are happy to look out for each other, and find we can meet most of our needs within walking distance. The centenarians of Ikaria have all the clues to a happy life. Yes, they have the advantage of being on an island, but - if we can only break our habits - we could do much the same in London or Newcastle or Anywhere.

Do we really want to return to normal, to “get the economy going”? Our civilisation is just a death dance where slaves dig stuff out of a hole the ground, we suck some fleeting pleasure from it, then other slaves chuck it back into another hole in the ground.

It is no way to live. Arms that can only lift a spoon. Let’s write a new song.

Peter; I think your post deserves a thread of its own but being technologically illiterate I don't know how to move it I have started a new thread! See Original.