This week Welsh musician, Karl Wallinger, also left us.

He wrote Don’t Bang the Drum for The Waterboys’ third LP This is the Sea before leaving to form the group World Party

I’ve featured their songs here and here.

His 1997 song, She’s the One, was later made a hit by Robbie Williams.

The Waterboys: Don’t Bang the Drum

World Party: Ship of Fools

Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger: 19/10/1957 – 10/3/2024. So it goes.

One from 1985. A mine of quotable lines.

“Too high, too far, too soon,” “trumpets, towers and tenements, wide oceans full of tears,” “every precious dream and vision underneath the stars,” “you came like a comet, blazing your trails.”

The Waterboys – The Whole of the Moon