… I can tell by your eyes That you've probably been cryin' forever And the stars in the sky Don't mean nothin' to you, they're a mirror
… I don't wanna talk about it How you broke my heart If I stay here just a little bit longer If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart? Oh, whoa, heart
… If I stand all alone Will the shadow hide the color of my heart? Blue for the tears, black for the night's Fears the stars in the sky Don't mean nothin' to you, they're a mirror
… I don't wanna talk about it How you broke my heart If I stay here just a little bit longer If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart? Oh, my heart
… I don't wanna talk about it How you broke this old heart If I stay here just a little bit longer If I stay here, won't you listen to my heart?
Oh, my heart My heart Oh, my heart
Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.
Today, The Grandma has been watching by streaming the amazing concert that Rod Stewart has offered in Calella de Palafrugell, Girona. Stewart is one of the greatest rock and pop stars of all time, and it is always a privilege and a great emotion to see his performances.
May good fortune be with you and you stay forever young, Rod!
Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is an English rock and pop singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is among the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 120 million records worldwide.
He has had 10 number-one albums and 31 top-ten singles in the UK, six of which reached number one. Stewart has had 16 top-ten singles in the US, with four reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.
Stewart's music career began in 1962 when he took up busking with a harmonica. In 1963, he joined The Dimensions as a harmonica player and vocalist.
In 1964, Stewart joined Long John Baldry and the All Stars before moving to the Jeff Beck Group in 1967. Joining Faces in 1969, he also maintained a solo career releasing his debut album that year. Stewart's early albums were a fusion of rock, folk music, soul music, and R&B.
After a disco and new wave period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stewart's music turned to a soft rock/middle-of-the-road style, with most of his albums reaching the top ten in the UK, Germany and Sweden, but faring less well in the US.
In 1993, he collaborated with Bryan Adams and Sting on the power ballad All for Love, which went to number one in many countries.
In the early 2000s, he released a series of successful albums interpreting the Great American Songbook.
In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists. A Grammy and Brit Award recipient, he was voted at No. 33 in Q Magazine's list of the Top 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2006, and he was inducted a second time into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Faces.
Roderick David Stewart was born at 507 Archway Road, Highgate, NorthLondon, on 10 January 1945, the youngest of five children of Robert Joseph Stewart and Elsie Rebecca Gilbart. His father was Scottish and had been a master builder in Leith, Edinburgh, while Elsie was English and had grown up in Upper Holloway in North London. Married in 1928, the couple had two sons and two daughters while living in Scotland, and then they moved to Highgate.
Stewart worked in the family shop and as a newspaper delivery boy. He then worked briefly as a labourer for Highgate Cemetery, which became another part of his biographical lore. He worked in a North Finchley funeral parlour and as a fence erector and sign writer.
In 1961, he went to Denmark Street with The Raiders and got a singing audition with well-known record producer Joe Meek, but Meek stopped the session with a rude sound. Stewart began listening to British and American topical folk artists such as Ewan MacColl, Alex Campbell, Woody Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and especially Derroll Adams and the debut album of Bob Dylan.
Guitarist Jeff Beck recruited Stewart for his new post-Yardbirds venture, and in February 1967, Stewart joined the Jeff Beck Group as vocalist and sometime songwriter. This would become the big break of his early career. There he first played with Ronnie Wood whom he had first met in a London pub in 1964; the two soon became fast friends.
Stewart's sputtering solo career also continued with the March 1968 release of non-hit Little Miss Understood on Immediate Records.
By the early 1990s, Stewart had mostly abandoned creating his own material, saying that he was not a natural songwriter and that the tepid response to his recent efforts was not rewarding.
In May 2013, Stewart released Time, a rock album of his own original material. It marked a return to songwriting after what Stewart termed a dark period of twenty years; he said that writing his autobiography gave him the impetus to write music again.
May the good Lord be with you down every road you roam And may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from home And my you grow to be proud, dignified and true And do unto others as you'd have done to you Be courageous and be brave And in my heart you'll always stay
Forever young
May good fortune be with you, may your guiding light be strong Build a stairway to heaven with a prince or a vagabond And may you never love in vain And in my heart you'll always remain
Forever young
And when you fin'lly fly away, I'll be hoping that I served you well For all the wisdom of a lifetime, no one can ever tell But whatever road you choose I'm right behind you, win or lose
New York Harbor is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay near the East River tidal estuary, and then into the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast of the United States.
It is one of the largest natural harbours in the world, and is frequently named the best natural harbour in the world.
It is also known as Upper New York Bay, which is enclosed by the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Staten Island and the Hudson County, New Jersey, municipalities of Jersey City and Bayonne.
The name may also refer to the entirety of New York Bay including Lower New York Bay. Although the United States Board on Geographic Names does not use the term, New York Harbor has important historical, governmental, commercial, and ecological usages.
The harbour is fed by the waters of the Hudson River (historically called the North River as it passes Manhattan), as well as the Gowanus Canal. It is connected to Lower New York Bay by the Narrows, to Newark Bay by the Kill Van Kull, and to Long Island Sound by the East River, which despite the name, is actually a tidal strait. It provides the main passage for the waters of the Hudson River as it empties through the Narrows. The channel of the Hudson as it passes through the harbour is called the Anchorage Channel and is approximately 50 feet deep in the midpoint of the harbour.
A project to replace two water mains between Brooklyn and Staten Island which will eventually allowing for dredging of the channel to nearly 30 m was begun in April 2012.
It contains several islands including Governors Island, near the mouth of the East River, as well Ellis Island, Liberty Island, and Robbins Reef which are supported by a large underwater reef on the New Jersey side of the harbor. The reef was historically one of the largest oyster beds in the world and provided a staple for the diet of all classes of citizens both locally and regionally until the end of the 19th century, when the beds succumbed to pollution.
Historically, it has played an extremely important role in the commerce of the New York metropolitan area.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument recalls the immigrant experience during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Since the 1950s, container ship traffic has been primarily routed through the Kill Van Kull to Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, where it is consolidated for easier automated transfer to land conveyance. As a consequence, the waterfront industries of the Harbor experienced a decline leading to diverse plans for revitalization, though important maritime uses remain at Red Hook, Port Jersey, MOTBY, Constable Hook, and parts of the Staten Island shore. Liberty State Park opened in 1976. In recent years, it has become a popular site for recreation sailing and kayaking.
The harbour is traversed by the Staten Island Ferry, which runs between Whitehall Street at the southernmost tip of Manhattan near Battery Park (South Ferry) and St. George Ferry Terminal on Richmond Terrace in Staten Island near Richmond County Borough Hall and Richmond County Supreme Court. NY Waterway operates routes across the bay and through The Narrows to locations near Sandy Hook.
The harbour supports a very diverse population of marine species, allowing for recreational fishing, most commonly for striped bass and bluefish.
The original population of the 16th century New York Harbor, the Lenape, used the waterways for fishing and travel.
In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano anchored in what is now called the Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and Long Island that connects the Upper and Lower New York Bay, where he received a canoe party of Lenape.
In 1824 the first American drydock was completed on the East River. Because of its location and depth, the Port grew rapidly with the introduction of steamships; and then with the completion in 1825 of the Erie Canal New York became the most important transshipping port between Europe and the interior of the United States, as well as coastwise destinations.
By about 1840, more passengers and a greater tonnage of cargo came through the port of New York than all other major harbours in the country combined and by 1900 it was one of the great international ports. The Morris Canal carried anthracite and freight from Pennsylvania through New Jersey to its terminus at the mouth of the Hudson in Jersey City. Portions in the harbour are now part of Liberty State Park.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) stands on Liberty Island in the harbour, while the nearby main port of entry at Ellis Island processed 12 million arrivals from 1892 to 1954.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument, encompassing both islands, recalls the period of massive immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. While many stayed in the region, others spread across America, with more than 10 million leaving from the nearby Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal.
Sailingis a song composed by Gavin Sutherland of the Sutherland Brothers in 1972, best known as a 1975 international hit for Rod Stewart.
Sailingwas written and recorded by the Sutherland Brothers -a duo consisting of Gavin and Iain Sutherland- in a June 1972 session. The brothers provided their own backing with Gavin on bass drum and Iain on harmonium. They intended the song to have a Celtic feel to it, and overdubbed their vocals.
Gavin Sutherland said of the song, Most people take the song to be about a young guy telling his girl that he's crossing the Atlantic to be with her. and with a grin, continued In fact the song's got nothing to do with romance or ships; it's an account of mankind's spiritual odyssey through life on his way to freedom and fulfillment with the Supreme Being.
Sailing was recorded by Rod Stewart for his first album recorded in North America rather than Great Britain: Atlantic Crossing, which was recorded April -June 1975 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with Tom Dowd producing.
The first single from the album, Sailing afforded Stewart an international hit notably in the UK where Sailing was No. 1.
The first music video for Sailing was filmed in the Port of Dublin and also featured footage shot on the major Dublin thoroughfare Moore Street: featuring Stewart and his partner Britt Ekland, the video aired on the Top of the Pops broadcast of 28 August 1975.
Another music video for Sailing was shot in New York Harbor in 1978, and would become one of the first to be aired on MTV when it launched on 1 August 1981.
After centuries of duelling to survive against others like him, an
immortal Scottish swordsman faces his final opponent: a bloodthirsty barbarian
who has chased him across time to 1985 New York City, where they fight for the
Prize: the spiritual ability to know everything.
The Grandma has been visiting Scotland these last days. Homeland of Sean Connery, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, a special person for The Holmes, Walter Scott, Annie Lennox, Rod Stewart
or Amy MacDonald, Scotland is a country where History and
Tradition are mixed creating an incredible atmosphere.
She has had a
meeting with Connor MacLeod, an old
friend of her. After talking about the beauty of Scottish Highlands and the last studies about the existence of Nessie, they were to a bagpipe
concert.
Today, The Grandma is in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
She’s enjoying Scottish hospitality and buying tonnes of Scottish herbs, her
favourite drink.
Despite of
this travel, The Grandma continues in
her search of new material to The Holmes. In
this case, again, to prepare the listening part, some audios about Express English.
,%20Cristina%20Morgan%20&%20Connor%20MacLeod%20(I).jpg)
.jpg)
%20&%20The%20Grandma%20(II).jpg)
