This morning on Today on Radio4 there was a memoir of John Prine’s last weeks by Fiona, his wife.
It’s quite moving and can be heard via this link. Her piece starts at around 8:50
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm
John Prine’s wife – memoir of his last days
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Or this link – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_fourfm
Thanks….sniff.
Thank you for pointing this out to me. Choked.
Thanks @Carl will listen to this later.
Elvis Costello wrote a very moving eulogy to him which I will try to link onto here.
She’s very well spoken and eloquent. I assumed she was American, but I thought I heard a little Irish twang as she spoke. I did, because she’s Irish.
On the 1997 live album on Illegal Smile he sings that his sister in law is an Irish nun.
I’m not sure if that was true though.
Yeah he met her in Ireland I believe.
Just had a listen, a moist eye or two.
The above link though plays the live Radio 4
Starts as 2 hours 50 in.
Hope that’s OK @Carl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j1hr
Mais oui, mon ami.
I posted just after Today finished. I should have twigged that the URL would change.
I also heard it on Radio 4.
Really got to the core of how this virus is affecting people.
I’m pleased they finally got to play live in Paris.
A similar piece on the same programme by David Hare was excellent on his own physical issues and (fluctuating) decline.
Not getting through to everyone …
Had a stand-up row with an 80 year old yesterday. Lasted 20 minutes!
Doesn’t affect him.
“Boris’ll get it done,” “Too much is being made of it,” “I could walk out and get run over by a bus.”
I’m a respecter of age, and so I’ll call an 80 year old exactly what I’d call an 18 year old.
So I did.
He doesn’t like me.
My ire was further ripened by the fact he wouldn’t know “Blonde on Blonde” from a bag of chips.
Here’s his charge sheet …
He meets his mates on a bench twice a day, right next to a very busy foot path; breathes smoke into the air; resolutely does not self-distance; goes in and out of a building used by about 4 or 5 other people (I since sent an email telling them not to use it anymore), completely ignoring all policy set up by the concern itself (used mainly by those in their 60s-80s) to clean work surfaces, wash hands, wash the door handles etc.
He couldn’t give a shit.
If he gets it, it will be ascribed to foreigners or Londoners or both.
Oh, and he’d bring it home to his frail wife who is self-isolating, and who would definitely be too frail to survive it. How he must love and respect her.
Nice guy.