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Under Blue Berkshire Skies, was written in 2003 in praise of a friendship enjoyed several decades previously as a ‘new boy’ at college in the beautiful English county of Berkshire, and yet haunted both by the Spirit of ’68, and the Brian Wilson/Beach Boys obra maestra, Surf’s Up, a song which somehow served to evoke the twilight of an era of historic momentousness.

Lament for a Classmate was written in 2015, notwithstanding a few later minor alterations, in response to the passing of a classmate whose name remained with me over the decades, but of whom I had - and still have - little memory. 

In Puerto Rican Skies dates from 2015, while having been based on an autobiographical song, relating to incidents from my childhood, written at the age of 18 for one of the first in a series of self-made cassette albums, if you can call them that. London, aged 18 (image).