First of May - the Bee Gees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGxDx8ftX1I A break in our parade of the dead, and as we exit the cruellest month, here is a distraction to mark the first of May, a rumination on the love of youth, fading as the years pass go by. Ostensibly, the song is about the first of May, but a discerning listen reveals that, in the song, nothing actually happens in May at all, it's just something in a promise. In fact, the song itself doesn't make sense at all. All it is is a jumble of
Baby Blue - Badfinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33oAuvbRg-c Still a year behind, we once again come to the demise of the last surviving member of the classic line-up of a band, in this case, Badfinger. Famous briefly in the early seventies for a clutch of hit singles and a couple of excellent albums (see post https://www.unclestylus.com/single-post/2018/11/27/walk-out-in-the-rain-badfinger ), at the time they were cursed by comparisons with the early Beatles on whose Apple label they were on
