This has been doing the rounds of Facebook, so apologies if everybody’s seen it…but it’s absolutely mesmerising. She starts off almost as if she’s singing to herself, then ramps it up…by the end I definitely had something in my eye. What a woman.
The wonderful Ms Simone
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“Jonathan Livingstone Seagull ain’t got nothing on me.”
Quite. Bloody fictional winged, egg-laying vertebrate.
An absolute genius. And a sensational piano player.
Got a dvd of her and while musically brilliant she is totally intimidating to the audience. Nick cave described her as terrifying. A friend was in a spa in Switzerland and standing against a wall stark naked and absolutely bollocking someone down the telephone line was Nina Simone. Got a stack of her stuff and ever since hearing that anecdote I can’t help thinking about it when I play her stuff.
Me too, now – thanks Junior!
Thanks, Mike, that’s a real antidote to the advert-music I mainly know of her.
I far prefer her take on Baltimore to Randy Newman’s original. None more topical:
People hide their faces and they hide their eyes,
cos the city’s dying and they don’t know why.
Oh, Baltimore… ain’t it hard just to live.