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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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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1995 single from the band’s second album, A Northern Soul, with opening lyrics based on Blake’s London.
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B-side to the 1994 single “Girls & Boys”, this is a great song that uses Blake’s “A Poison Tree”.
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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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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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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’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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Allen Ginsberg singing Blake’s “The Tyger” with a simply marvellous (and utterly unrelated) tiger dance by Shereé
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Mike Westbrook’s band with Phil Minton performing “The Fields” and “I See Thy Form” from Glad Day at Toynbee Studios in late 2008.
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