A Long Time Ago...

This excerpt is from an article written just prior to
the original release of "The Empire Strikes Back"
it appeared in issue 22 (possibly June 1980) of
Starburst Magazine, then being published by Marvel Comics Ltd.
Tony Crawley is the writer credited on the feature. Other regular
contributors were John Brosnan, Phil Edwards,
John Fleming and Mat Irvine.

(All images are copyrighted 1980 by Lucasfilm Ltd)

THE MAKING OF STAR WARS
THOUGH IT HAS TAKEN THREE YEARS,
THE SEQUEL TO THE PHENOMENALLY
SUCCESSFUL MOVIE STAR WARS, IS
FINALLY WITH US
TONY CRAWLEY LOOKS AT THE
MAKING OF THE FILM AND SOME
OF THE PROBLEMS FACED BY
THE CREATIVE PEOPLE INVOLVED


Above:
One of Ralph McQuarrie's pre-
production paintings.

It's that time again. George Lucas science fantasy
time! As Star Trek finally disappears inside Disney's
Black Hole, the world's stage is set for the
Star Wars sequel. Well, not the sequel the
continuation ... the next chapter. Part Two! Well,
no, not quite that either. Part Five, to be precise, in
George's nine-part saga set in that distant galaxy
far, far away. In short: the world's most
expensive and most successful movie serial is
coming back. The Empire Strikes Back is about
to make its strike, folks.

Whatever George likes to call it, however he likes
to number it, it is for all intents and purposes, a sequel,
and probably the world's most eagerly awaited sequel
since Godfather II. And as Godpop II, as it's more
familiarly known, is just about the only sequel film to
have improved upon its forerunner, there's a lot
riding on the new Lucasfilm production. Not least,
George's reputation as the maker of the world's
most successful movie . . . which has been earning as
much as 140,000 dollars a day.


Below:
The assassin Boba Fett.


Since Star Wars came out way back in
1977, it has been milked, ravaged,
dissected, re-directed and thoroughly
ripped-off from Italy to Canada. There
have been so many badly-made, horren-
dously-conceived, quickie copy-cat
movies, that even the most devout sf
movie fan has become a little tired of all
those clones of Luke, Leia, Han, Darth
Vader and the robots running and
spinning around in a flurry of movies,
most of which seemed to have cost about
56 and a half pence or the producer's son's pocket-
money — which ever was the cheapest.
Their scripts were lamentable and the
special-effects diabolical. This sick
succession of cash-in movies have all but
killed the good name of science fiction,
or if you prefer, science-fantasy, in the
cinema.

George Lucas, therefore, has a lot to
answer for... and a lot to make up for.
He has nothing to beat, of course. But he
has had to work damned hard to make
sure he retains our interest.
So what chances does Empire have of
making any impact on our jaded palates?
Quite a lot, as it happens ... or as we
fervantly hope it happens. If only because
of the way that George Lucas and his
production partner, Gary Kurtz, go
about making movies. Star Wars has made
them not only millionaires (and then some),
but film-makers with the greatest
degree of independence in
Hollywood, or indeed the entire film
world, since the days when Chaplin, Pick-
ford and Griffith first set up their own
shop, United Artists.



As I write all this, however. The
Empire Strikes Back is still shrouded in
almost total secrecy. I know a little of
what went on behind the scenes since
shooting began in Norway on March 5,
1979, but George 'n' Gary have most of
their secrets well under wraps until
opening night in America — and the
European premiere at the Odeon,
Leicester Square (farewell. Black Hole!)
on Wednesday, May 21.
So at this juncture, I cannot exactly
report if they've worked the oracle a
second time, if they've lived up to their —
and indeed our — high expectations. We
can only report what's been going on ...
and why ... as we await the outcome.
George Lucas, after all, is in the
position of someone like Dr Christian
Barnard after he performed the world's
first heart-transplant operation. What
does he do for an encore? Barnard, as it
happened, did not do a great deal —
everyone else did instead. For the last few
years, it looked as if the same thing was
happening to Lucas — except the Star
Wars transplants proved so ineffectual.
Hence our anticipation of his new operation!

The initial problem with the new movie is not
the story, not the effects — which are bound to
be even more super-polished this time, because
of the extra money available, and indeed because
of George's own in-house effects work via one
of his new companies, Industrial Light and Magic.
No, the numero uno problem with the new flick is
the cast. Obviously, all the favourites are back in line
- Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Carrie Fisher as
Princess Leia, Harrison Ford as Han Solo, Dave Prowse
inside Darth Vader's breathing mask, Kenny Baker and
Anthony Daniels locked into the metallic overalls of
R2-D2 and C-3PO, Peter Mayhew all furred up anew
as Chew-bacca, and yes, even Sir Alec Guiness'
Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi in a special reprise stanza.
That is both good and bad news. Naturally, we
all want to see these guys back in action
again. But we have already ... in so many other
sf movies of late. Of course, the originals have to
be better than the cheapjack clones — or
should be. For Star Wars, George Lucas chose
an ensemble cast; the main trio of Hamill,
Fisher and Ford had to gel together as
a unit, or he would have selected another
threesome entirely. Last time, his screen
newcomers were in unknown territory. George
directed and he alone knew where and
how he wanted them to go. But it's
obvious that he cannot merely rely on
the same crew of characters. New creations
have to be brought in. Billy Dee Williams,
in the main, as Baron Lando Calrissian,
"the charismatic boss" (it says here) of
a mining colony in space, and an old
buddy of Han Solo. Fine. A black
man in space is hardly new, but
rarely touched upon either. . .



But since 1977, Star Wars has become more
than a movie. It is a multi-million-dollar
business corporation. And so, merchandising
requires new characters . . . The toy manufacturers
cannot keep churning out R2 and 3PO toys from
here until doomsday. And so, enter a cuddly, friendly,
eight-foot high beastie called a Tauntaun — you say, town-town.
It's no vast rival of Chewie, you ride
this beast like a camel. Or you do
on the frozen planet of Hoth.

There is also another very special new creation,
around which the shrouds of secrecy still hang heavy.
Very heavy indeed. The clue is the best
known new name on the Empire poster. Frank
Oz. He's Jim Henson's partner on The Muppet Show,
responsible for, among others, Fozzie Bear, Animal,
Sam the Eagle and, of course, Miss Piggy. Now he has
come up with a new character for George. He created,
designed, activated and acted . . . Yoda.

The new characters will mix in with the old,
who are changing format rather than face.
Carrie Fisher, for example, is turning into a kind
of John Ford Western heroine (the way Luke Skywalker
was a Fordian youth last time). "She's now torn between
two men," explains producer Gary Kurtz. The men are
Luke and Han, of course. "She will be
more positive and less passive," adds Gary.
Unfortunately, he didn't say that to me, otherwise
I would have asked what on earth he was talking
about. Leia was hardly ever passive in the first film . . .

Kurtz sounds more on the ball when he discusses
the "new" Luke. "He was naive — now he is growing up
and learning how to use The Force. The nucleus of the
whole saga is his mental and spiritual training.
He is the prime user of The Force but he
still is not ready to take over entirely
from Ben Kenobi," Well, of course not.
He has at least four more chapters to go
if George manages to make his entire serial .

"Now we have familiarised the audience
with the basic environment, we can introduce
even more imaginative extensions of it, while
at the same time bringing some more emphasis
to heightened emotional relationships between
the characters." — Gary Kurtz, producer.

According to Kurtz, Harrison Ford has a problem, too.
Or rather, Han Solo has . . . Oh, I don't know, the way
Kurtz articulates it, it sounds as much Ford's problem as Solo's.
"It's one of decision," says Gary. "Does he want to take part in
this new organisation that is growing up against the Galactic Empire
or does he want to go off and fight as a freelance?" Or put it another
way: does Ford want to stay with the series, the new organisation
that is growing up against the Hollywood empire, or does he want
to go off making as many films as he can, as indeed he has since 1977 . . ?

On the subject of the film itself, Kurtz has this to say: "We feel that now
we have familiarised audiences with the basic environment, we can
introduce even more imaginative extensions of it, while at the same time
bringing some emphasis to heightened emotional relationships between
the characters." Very American is Gary Kurtz. I think he means that
Han Solo gets to kiss Princess Leia ...

The new director, as by now I'm sure we all know, is Irvin Kershner,
making his first sf film at age 57. "I happen to love science fiction,"
he says, "and I've been reading it since I was a kid. Perhaps hindsight
will place Star Wars into perspective, but this is certainly true - it
appealed to the child in us all." George Lucas wrote the story for
the new film. Leigh Brackett, a prolific and talented screenwriter
and science-fiction novelist, completed the first draft of the script
just before her tragic death in March, 1978. Brought in for the final
polish was Lawrence Kasdan, now a firm member of the Lucasfilm
set-up. His original script, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is about to start
shooting at George's old hunting-ground, Elstree studios, with
Steven Spielberg directing. Spielberg will also direct Larry's
next script. Continental Divide (NOTE: Speilberg did not end up
directing the film, the script was filmed instead by director,
Michael Apted and released in 1981). Just as many of the first cast
were brought back for the new adventure, so were various key
specialists behind the scenes. Robert Watts became associate
producer, Norman Reynolds, art director last time, takes charge
of production design. Paul Hirsch, from De Palma's Obsession
and The Fury, remains the film's editor, Stuart Freeborn
is make-up supervisor, and handles all "special
creature design." John Mollo designed the costumes and John
Williams, naturally, penned the new score. Williams, Reynolds
and Mollo were among the seven Oscar-winners on Star Wars,
by the way.

An intriguing
pre-production design painting by Star Wars regular, Ralph McQuarrie.


New to the team were Ken Russell's favourite camera ace. Peter
Suschitzky, and Brian Johnson, replaced John Dykstra — the
Battlestar Galactica rip-off merchant — as supervisor of the mechanical
special effects at Elstree. Once shooting was over, Brian, who has
worked on everything good in sf from 2001 to Alien, joined up with
Richard Edlund and Dennis Muren, for the creation of the
post-production effects at George's Industrial Light and Magic facility.
Brian's bunch have all been toiling like mad for the past year in California,
working on the miniatures and opticals ("the buck stops at opticals,"
says George), plus various stop-motion and animation sequences for
animals and other mechanical creatures. Their work will, so I hear,
somewhat bury the achievements to date of the great Ray Harryhausen.
(To Be Continued)

Marvel UK in the early Nineties

Lew Stringer's frighteningly excellent blog has a very interesting "behind the scenes" snippet on Marvel UK's history:

Blimey! It's another blog about comics!: Marvel UK in the early Nineties

An Alternative Viewpoint

Our real enemy is not the one living in a distant land whose name or policies we don't understand; The real enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not several hundred thousands away. They are right here in front of us
- Mike Prysner

Gareth Thomas' (soon to be) Ex Wife Speaks

Photo by Paul Lewis

Jemma Thomas comments on her soon to be ex husbands' (Gareth Thomas) public announcement concerning his sexuality (he is gay),

'He released me and in doing so he released himself. Gareth could have waited for years to tell me, wasted my life, and where would that have left me? I was only 30 when he told me, still young enough to meet someone else and have children.'
Today, Jemma lives in Spain where she works with her mother Judi, 61, for a furniture company. She moved there 18 months ago for a fresh start. She wanted to be where no one knows she was the wife of the sporting legend and to escape the scrutiny which accompanied the break-up of her marriage.
'It was hard for me staying in Bridgend. Everywhere held a happy memory of my time with Gareth, all my friends were the friends we'd spent our weekends with as a couple,' says Jemma, whose divorce from Gareth will be finalised in the New Year. 'I needed to move on. We both did.'
Jemma and Gareth grew up in neighbouring villages near Bridgend, and were friends long before they became lovers. Before he turned professional, Gareth was Jemma's postman.
'All the girls used to go and watch the local rugby team to check out the talent and have a look at the boys' legs,' she says. 'I was never very interested in rugby, I was only interested in Gareth. I was besotted with him.
'He was great fun, laid back, happy-go-lucky, and we had such a laugh together. Rugby was his passion. I always watched him play, but it was a running joke between us that, even after 15 years together, I still had no idea where the try line was.'
In 2005 Gareth Thomas led Wales to its first Grand Slam victory since 1978
Until their marriage in 2001, their courtship was 'on-off '. Gareth has admitted this was as much to do with his confusion over his sexuality as with his total commitment to rugby.
He had his first gay encounter at 18, an experience which he says left him feeling ashamed, so much so that he pushed his feelings into a remote corner, where they sat like a knot in his stomach 'waiting to leak out'.

'Before our marriage I had no idea, no suspicion at all, not then anyway. That would come later,' says Jemma. 'He was just like all the other lads and dated a friend of mine before we got together at a friend's 18th birthday party.
'He was incredibly loving, caring, romantic, passionate and emotional. He was always buying me flowers and presents, telling me how much he adored me. I felt so confident in his love for me, I trusted him 100 per cent.

'I remember, just before Christmas in 2000, we were lying in bed together in our cottage and he jumped out of bed, switched on the light and then knelt down and said: "Shall we get married?" I replied: "Why not?" I had not a second's hesitation. He was all I wanted.
'And the saddest thing is we really did have the perfect marriage - apart from this grey corner which was secretly eating away at him. We never argued about anything, we just spent the whole time laughing and having fun. We had a great circle of friends.
'We were both desperate to start a family. Gareth adored children and was great with all our friends' kids. He would have made a brilliant father,' she says.
Jemma suffered her first miscarriage a year into their marriage. Gareth was with her, holding her hand when a hospital scan revealed the baby she was carrying had died in the womb ten weeks into her pregnancy.
'We were both in tears. Gareth was absolutely heartbroken, but all he cared about was making sure I was all right. He couldn't have been more loving and supportive,' says Jemma.
'We were both keen to try again as quickly as possible. When it's your first, you just accept it as one of those things, so in many ways the second miscarriage at nine weeks was devastating. It was an awful time for both of us.'
After the second miscarriage, in the summer of 2003, Gareth stayed home from the Wales tour of Australia and New Zealand to comfort Jemma, and she says his support meant everything to her. He took her on holiday to Cyprus to recover, and without his love during this time, Jemma says she would have been utterly destroyed.
Jemma was behind Gareth's move from Wales to the French Club Toulouse in 2004, giving up her job as a payroll manager with a furniture company to move with him to France. Indeed, it heralded a stunning period of triumph in Gareth's rugby career. In 2005, he not only led Wales to their Grand Slam victory, he won the Heineken Cup with Toulouse and was voted BBC Wales Sports Personality Of The Year.
The following year, however, their world fell apart. In early 2006, Gareth stood accused of leading a player revolt following the sudden departure of the Wales national coach, Mike Ruddock.
Then Gareth - already nursing a rugby injury - collapsed with a ruptured artery and suffered a ministoke, following a TV debate in which he defended his team against charges of 'player power'. Not long after this, Jemma suffered her third miscarriage.
'It was a very fraught time. I was very worried about Gareth's health after his mini-stroke and anxious about my pregnancy. I had a chest infection and wasn't feeling great,' says Jemma.
Gareth and Jemma Thomas at home in happier days
'I was so worried about the baby, we went to hospital for a scan, and it destroyed us when we were told I had miscarried either that morning or the night before. How can you ever feel normal again after losing your third baby?
'It was the worst time of our lives, everything seemed to be spiralling out of control and we seemed to be trapped on an emotional rollercoaster. Gareth has always been a very private person, and he started spending hours alone, walking along the beach, reflecting on things he would not talk to me about.
'My intuition told me something was wrong, but whenever I asked Gareth he'd say "nothing's wrong" and change the subject.
'He'd tell me he was going somewhere, while he was on tour, and then I'd find out that he'd been somewhere else. I started to ask him where he'd been, where he was going, if there was someone else. Then I'd feel guilty and angry with myself for even doubting him. I felt certain Gareth would never have cheated on me with a woman, so I started to wonder if he might be gay, because I couldn't think of anything else. I'd started to hear gossip about his sexuality, but thought it was just some locker room banter and pushed it to the back of my mind.
'There wasn't a night when he didn't come home, when he wasn't on tour, and our love life was normal. Me and the other rugby wives would joke about how much we were doing it, while the boys were training, and we were no different from anyone else.
'He loved me so much he had to tell me the truth'
'Then, he phoned me one day and said: "I need to talk to you." That night he admitted it, saying: "You have to know the truth. I am gay."
'It was the worst day of my life. It almost felt as if someone I loved had suddenly died, but he was still standing there in front of me. Alive but lost to me. I didn't feel anger - if anything, I felt sorry for him.
'If it had been another woman, I think I would have thrown myself off a cliff, because it would have destroyed every ounce of my selfesteem. But the fact he'd been with men, strangely almost didn't feel like cheating to me.
'This was who he was, something I could never have changed, something that was nothing to do with his feelings for me as a woman.
'I knew that whatever he had done had not been done with malice towards me and I could see how much he was suffering and how sorry he was for hurting me. Gareth was still the same Gareth I'd fallen in love with. He was just as loving and caring as he was before. He didn't change at all, so for a month nothing happened and both of us thought that somehow we could stay together because we depended so much on each other.'
But Jemma was in turmoil. After a month of drifting along, as if nothing had changed in their marriage, she returned from France to Wales.
'I had to tell my parents because I just didn't know what to do. I stayed up with my dad Trevor talking until 3am and I told him everything,' says Jemma.
'I remember my father saying: "Poor lad, what must he have been going through all these years." There was no anger or aggression, just enormous sympathy for both of us.
'I knew I still loved Gareth, but that our marriage could never survive this, no matter how much we both wanted it to.
Gareth and Jemma Thomas had three miscarriages during their marriage
'I had always trusted Gareth 100 per cent and knew that I would never be able to trust him again. Every time he went out, I'd be thinking "Where is he going?" or "Who is he seeing?" and it would destroy our love for each other. So I phoned Gareth to tell him I wasn't coming back to France.
'He was sitting on our bed in France in tears, and I was sitting in Wales in tears, but it was the right thing to do. I knew I couldn't stay with Gareth knowing that I had 90 per cent of him, but not all.' In 2007, Gareth retired from international rugby, left Toulouse and returned to Wales to play for the Cardiff Blues, with whom he hopes to play out what remains of his career.
For three years his family, friends and team-mates have known the truth, which has made not a jot of difference to their feelings or respect for him.
'Gareth and I were still the best of friends and in some ways it was as if nothing had changed. He'd call me every day, come round to see me, want to spend time with me and buy me presents,' says Jemma.
'We were still together, but living parallel lives. It was very hard for us to let go of each other, and we would often end up in tears, because the love between us was still there.
'I was still helping him with his career, advising him on looking at new avenues for when his rugby career ended. 'We remained incredibly close, but one day I realised that this situation wasn't helping either of us. I think he was still blaming himself for hurting me and didn't want to just let me go, but it had to happen if either of us was to move on. My parents have had a house in Spain for many years, and one day my mum said: "Why don't you move out here for a while?"
'It was the best thing I could have done for both myself and Gareth. He was upset when I told him, and for a while we hardly had any contact, but I'm a very strong person mentally and this is the way it has to be.
'With Gareth coming out publicly and our divorce being finalised in the New Year, I feel a chapter is closing and, although I feel sad and wish it could be different, it's for the best.
'This is who Gareth is and it is something which cannot be changed, but it has been so hard coming to terms with that. It would be easy for me to think that if I hadn't married Gareth, I might have met and married someone else, but I don't regret a single day I spent as his wife.
'If we'd had children, I think I would have wanted to stay married to him for their sake and that wouldn't have been good for either of us, so while I grieve for the babies we lost, perhaps these things happen for a reason.
'He will always love me, but he cannot turn himself into a heterosexual. If he could, I would still be married to him. We will always be the best of friends and I couldn't feel prouder of him than I do now.'
Excerpted from an article by Helen Weathers

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1237397/When-Gareth-told-gay-man-I-loved-died.html#ixzz0azPvWDMX

Stevie Nicks Leather and Lace

Stevie Nicks - Leather and Lace
Uploaded by jpdc11.

1986 was the year I first saw this video from a compilation of Stevie Nicks promo's called "I Can't Wait", it ran for only twenty six minutes and featured the following songs:

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around /Stand Back / Leather and Lace / If AnyoneFalls / Talk to Me / I Can't Wait.

This is the copy from back cover: In the mid-70's, when Stevie Nicks joined the already popular Fleetwood Mac, her highly distinctive, deeply sensual voice, and her intensely personal songs immediately helped propel the band to supergroup status. For her part in their immense popularity, she has emerged a major figure in contemporary music. As of 1986, she has released three albums on her own and they all achieved platinum-record status. Each is distinguished by several huge hit singles and videos, and they have been collected here for the first time. From "Bella Donna" comes her concert video of "Leather and Lace" and her haunting duet with Tom Petty on "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around." Hits from "The Wild Heart" album are the defiant "Stand Back" and the sensually choreographed "If Anyone Falls." From "Rock A Little," two hits are featured, "Talk to Me" and the title track video of "I Can't Wait." Both are stunning visual extensions of Stevie's compelling and truly unique mystique. In all of rock and roll, there is no one quite like Stevie Nicks. Now her solo video debut is here. And the wait is over.

The Country Roads of Chris (Dog Oil) Raddings

(Photo by Sheila Godfrey)

Biography-
Chris Raddings: Musician

Born in: Leeds, West Yorkshire, U.K.
Date of Birth: 21/11/63
Schools: Scholes Infants School, Mirfield, Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K. / Whitechapel Middle School, Cleckheaton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K. / Whitcliffe Mount Secondary School Cleckheaton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K.

Chris is the youngest of three children, he has a sister, Elaine and a brother, Andrew. He left school in 1980 and continued his studies at Batley College of Art & Design, specialist subject: Interior Design. The college catered for a wide range of diciplines from Fine Art to Fashion Design and consequently included an eclectic mix of characters amongst it's scholars and lecturers providing the perfect environment to broaden the mind! However by 1982 Chris left the school having decided to follow an alternative and more satisfying career path working with disadvantaged children. He soon discovered he could incorporate his talent for vocal and musical performance into this new work and get a good response from the kids.

It is interesting to note that, although Chris had joined or helped out a few bands during his time at college they were mainly styled after the music of the time, post punk and new wave pop, which though enjoyable was not quite right for someone who's second record LP was Johnny Cash's "Itchy Feet - 20 Foot Tapping Greats". It would be some years later around 1986 that he began to really take his passion for Country Music to the people through live performance. The New Wave of Country was progressing and Artists like Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam and Randy Travis were breaking into the mainstream music charts, the public was finally waking up to Country Music and regular bars and clubs were beginning to book more Country performers.

The Summer of 1986 brought with it an opportunity for Chris to travel to the U.S.A. and help out kids suffering with diabetes at B.U.N.A.C. Although hard work it was rewarding and paved the way for a second longer trip to the U.S. in 1988 where he gained employment in a Massachusettes childrens home and stayed for two years before returning to the U.K.

By this point (around 1991) Country Music was quite well established in the mainstream and the likes of Garth Brooks were appearing regularly in the media and on the charts. Chris now back in the U.K. was employed by Kirklees Council Childrens Homes and he began performing in his spare time for the growing Country Music fan base at various festivals and venues.

In 1999 it was time for Chris to go back to college. Combining his passion for music with his chosen career path he began a BA Honours course in Creative Therapies at Bradford University and completed it successfully in 2002. In 2001 in addition to his College course he began working for the mental health charity MIND in Bradford, West Yorkshire which led to his involvement with community music groups Performance Express and Musical Arc (a resource for people with learning disabilities). Since 2003 Chris has also lent his professional and musical talents to other organisations including the J G Music Room, a music group at the Shipley Resource Centre and a Saturday morning music group for Bradford Council's Kids In Care (which explains why he has on occasion cut it a bit fine for his own Saturday gigs!)

Now Deputy Manager of MIND in Harrogate and Manager of MIND in Ripon, Chris continues to involve himself in music and social projects for various charities and local authorities, somehow still finding the time to play live for Country fans at events and festivals all around the U.K. Chris married Fiona Louise Taylor on December 16th 2006 and Fiona gave birth to Chris' first child, Eleanor Taylor Raddings on April 7th 2009. The family, including Fiona's two sons Oliver and Alex live in Harrogate North Yorkshire.
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Happy accident, serendipity I don't know but somehow while on holiday in the Czech Republic I was able to help in the casting for this video. As it turns out I think it's worked rather well, I particularly like the imagery of the gently burning guitar.

More music from Simon P Kelly can be found on his myspace music profile and the album Coming Home In The Light from which this single is pulled is available now (e-mail Simon via his myspace profile).

Incidentally, the evocative lyrics to all the songs are written by my friend Richard Eccles who's also a very talented poet and all around creative powerhouse. My thanks go out to Richard for allowing me to play a tiny part in the completion of this project.