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Music
In the 80's I used to be in a band called 'The Little Heroes'. We did okay. Toured, lived the life, recorded and had a couple of minor hits. Most of the songs I wrote .. well, almost all of them, except one - but it was another time and now I find them very hard to relate to - they sound very '80's - lots of synth, big hair and poncing about, and though it was fun for a while, now, with all the other things I've done since, that Roger is gone. Strange how someone we once were can become a stranger to us. But there are some songs I like from that time (just click on the link and they'll play:
After I left the band I made a desperate attempt to keep writing songs but it seemed the muse had gone, so eventually I stopped - not even playing guitar for a long time. And in the space songwriting left I began writing books, the first of which was my novel, 'Levin's God', which, though written in 1992, was eventually published in 2004. But recently, while living in China, I began writing songs again. And though I haven't had the opportunity to record them in a studio, these sketches, recorded in my apartment in Huaiyin in China on a little IRiver MP3 player, are very precious to me rough as they are. I like them because there is something honest about them which often gets lost when a song is taken into a recording studio. So here are some of them, the best of the Chinese songs.
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