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Air That I Breathe
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Air That I Breathe Ever played the game "Six Degrees of Separation"? I'm not planning to play it here, but it will go some way to explaining this blog. There will be those of you who know that Richard Hammond, presenter of BBC's Top Gear, is recovering at a hospital in Leeds, after being involved in a horrific crash while filming for an episode of Top Gear. He had been racing in a jet-powered car at the time, and Top Gear fans have been willing him a speedy recovery since they heard the news. Rather than the family being deluged with flowers from thousands of well-wishers, his family asked that people donate money for the maintenance and upkeep of an air-ambulance - he was flown from the crash site in one, and without it, his family say his chances of recovery would have been that much less certain. The British public have been amazingly generous, and enough money has been donated for a brand new air-ambulance!! That is wonderful news, although it is rather sad that it takes such a terrible accident for people to dip into their pockets and donate money for such a worthy cause. Anyway, onto the "degrees of separation"... In the making of popular recorded music during the last half of the 20th Century, a tiny yet prolific core of ‘super songwriters’ emerged. Among them Burt Bacharach, Leiber and Stoller, Hal David, Diane Warren, Brian and Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, Gerry Goffin, Carole King ‒ and Albert Hammond. Whether or not they had enjoyed success as artists themselves, each possessed the inspired, versatile and enduring gift of continually and repeatedly writing songs which touched listeners across all boundaries of age, language and musical genre. Hit after hit after hit. In the face of such success, these writers are often even more remarkable for their anonymity, a natural consequence of the tendency to always associate a song with the singer or band performing it. Equally, the really accomplished songwriters have been able to consistently write material which is appealing to new generations of performers and, in turn, to the new audiences which embrace them. The specific measure of Albert Hammond’s achievement is that everyone knows ‒ and can hum or sing - far, far more of his songs than they actually realise he has written, assuming they even know his name in the first place. Yet, without exception, he has never actually written songs with anyone other than himself recording them in mind ‒ even though his work has been recorded by artists like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Celine Dion, Tina Turner, KD Lang, Cass Elliot and Bonnie Tyler through to Tom Jones, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, Art Garfunkel, Willie Nelson, Julio Iglesias, Johnny Cash and Josh Groban. Groups which have enjoyed success with Hammond songs include The Hollies, Steppenwolf, The Carpenters, Aswad and Ace Of Base. “I never write songs as hit records or anything like that,” he explains. “I just write them because I love them. And I’ve never written a song for an artist. You know, when people say ‘Oh, you wrote for Tina (Turner) and you wrote for Whitney,’ I always wrote ’em for me, you know. Then the artist does them their way, fine, no problem ‒ but I wrote ’em for me. They become what I think are really unique songs, because you wrote them for you. What I think is that there is nobody more unique that oneself.” In part, Hammond attributes his almost matchless run of hit songs to his cosmopolitan upbringing; he is London-born but was raised in Gibraltar, well-travelled in Spain, Morocco and, ultimately, America. “Having grown up in Gibraltar, I guess I heard more music maybe than if I’d grown up in London. Probably in London I would have heard one kind of music only, but in Gibraltar you heard everything from flamenco to Arabic to Mexican to R 'n' B to rock to pop to ‒ everything. So I would imagine Gibraltar is an influence in my life.” It was certainly a major contributing factor towards his immense success in the Spanish-speaking market, a direct consequence of Hammond becoming fluent in the language while living in Gibraltar. Subsequently, Hammond has recorded a number of albums of his own in Spanish, written songs recorded by many Spanish artists and produced several albums for the market ‒ proving, beyond all doubt, that the true talent of an accomplished writer is that quality songs, and music, really do translate ‒ and that music truly is a universal language. I just love the words of this song... The air that I breathe (Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood) If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound Nothing to eat, no books to read Making love with you has left me peaceful, warm and tired What more could I ask? There's nothing left to be desired Peace came upon me, and it leaves me weak Sleep, silent angel, go to sleep Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you All I need is the air that I breathe, yes, to love you All I need is the air that I breathe Peace came upon me, and it leaves me weak Sleep, silent angel, go to sleep Sometimes all I need is the air that I breathe and to love you All I need is the air that I breathe, yes, to love you All I need is the air that I breathe Peace came upon me, and it leaves me weak Sleep, silent angel, go to sleep  Love, hugs and kisses from ♥♥HH♥♥ |
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