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<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I didn’t know much about poetry or lyric writing but through reading the lyrics each month in Record Song book and hearing the songs on the radio, I internalised the basic structures. Boarding school life was quite regimented and tough and there was quite a bit of emotion floating around, being away from home and dealing with all the flak and bullying. I was good at English and creative with it and I needed some form of self expression in which to channel that emotion and creativity.<\/p>\n One Saturday afternoon,sitting in the study reading various editions of Record Songbook, I noted two song lyrics for contrast.The first was by the Troggs – With a Girl Like You<\/a><\/i> and the second was The Dangling Conversation<\/a><\/i> by Simon and Garfunkle. The Paul Simon lyric stood out a mile with it’s magnificent imagery. I didn’t pretend to understand it back then but later bought all the Paul Simon songbooks and albums to see what I could learn from them.Meanwhile I just wanted to see if i could write a lyric, something much less ambitious. The Walker Brothers latest single was playing on the radio in the next Baby You Don’t Have to Tell me<\/a> <\/i>and so the experimental lyric became Baby I Can Tell. <\/i>A first effort and i think I nicked the line ‘Superficial sighs’ from Dangling Conversation.<\/i> It was just an experiment to see if I could write one at all.<\/p>\n I probably wrote and 9 or 10 in the 9 months left at school.<\/p>\n Note – To be completed,work in progress.<\/span><\/div>\n Trev Teasdel- Poet Reprobate – hub to his poetry,Stories and Flashing fictions and ebooks. http:\/\/trevteasdelpoetreprobate.blogspot.co.uk\/ This site is still a work in progress! TREV TEASDEL – COVENTRY LYRICIST Oh, how did it start? Way back in 1966, at the City … Continue reading
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\nOh, how did it start? Way back in 1966, at the City of Coventry Boarding school, Cleobury Mortimer aged 15. It was not long after Bob Dylan<\/b> and Donovan<\/b> arrived on the scene with Times They are a Changing<\/i> and Catch the Wind <\/i>and the arrival of the Pirate radio stations, changing the course of popular music from it’s simple love songs to experimenting and mixing different forms of roots music blues, R & B and folk with folk poetry and socially aware lyrics. It was an exciting period that opened up new worlds, New opportunities, new directions, a feeling that young people were going to change the world through the power of their music and creativity. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nOn Saturdays, we were allowed out of school and could walk the three miles to the nearest village, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire and I used to pick up the latest music papers,Melody Maker, Record Mirror,Disc and Music Echo, the Beatles and the Elvis magazines and a little publication called Record Songbook, which had the full lyrics to all the latest and upcoming hits. It was Record Songbook that got me started on writing song lyrics.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n