There’s an angel that’s watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won’t you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.
I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.
Enlightenment says the world is nothing Nothing but a dream, everything’s an illusion And nothing is real.
Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
There’s always stress involved in any genre or art form, there’s always going to be a struggle. If there’s no struggle, you wouldn’t do anything. What are you going do? Retire?
For a long time, I couldn’t actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, ’cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
Laying underneath the stars Can be so much fun Especially when you’re feeling good When you’re with the one you love.
When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he’ll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There’s good and evil in everyone.
You know what they’re writing about Baby you know what they’re writing about It’s a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.
Sometimes, when the spirit moves me I can do many wondrous things I wanna know when the spirit moves you Did ye get healed?
When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
I’m a working man in my prime cleaning windows.
The way I was singing the songs was jazz.
If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.
See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
If you’re a pop singer, you don’t need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.