From the 2008 album, Intimacy: “I remember how it began / So many great days in a row / Barefoot on Bishopsgate / Trying to find Blake’s grave”.
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Benjamin Britten – O Rose, Thou Art Sick
From Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, composed in 1943 and including poetry by Keats and Tennyson as well as Blake.
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Burning Bright (trailer)
A woman is trapped in her home with her autistic son; her stepfather pilfered her money for his tiger safari park; a hurricane is causing devastation; and somehow there’s a tiger on the loose in her house. Can’t believe I missed the cinema release of this one, but for all those eager fans of the works of Carlos Brooks, the DVD release on August 17 will allow us to see if there is any further connection to Blake other than the title.
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Masanori Oishi – The Garden of Love
Blake’s “The Garden of Love” with musci by JacobTV performed by Masanori Oishi on soprano sax. Broadcast on Japanese TV March 2010. Thanks to the Blake Society for bringing this to my attention.
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The Verve – History
1995 single from the band’s second album, A Northern Soul, with opening lyrics based on Blake’s London.
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Blur – Magpie
B-side to the 1994 single “Girls & Boys”, this is a great song that uses Blake’s “A Poison Tree”.
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Infant Sorrow – We’ve Got do Do Something
Russell Brand as Aldous Snow and his band Infant Sorrow (after Blake) from the 2008 movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall in this very amusing skit: “So why don’t you do something?”
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Paul Robeson – Jerusalem
The remarkable bass-baritone voice of the remarkable Paul Robeson delivers one of the richest versions of “Jerusalem”, versions of which he recorded in 1939 and 1958.
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Tim Blake – New Jerusalem
The title track from Blake’s 1978 album (his second solo project away from Hawkwind, and his first complete studio album). “New Jerusalem” took up all the second side of the – admittedly short – album.
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Van Morrison – You Don’t Pull No Punches
Van Morrison’s “You Don’t Pull No Punches, But You Don’t Push The River” from the 1974 album Veedon Fleece – “Blake and the Eternals, standin’ with the Sisters of Mercy Looking for the Veedon Fleece”.
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