Many thanks to Hank B Marvin, lead guitarist with The Shadows, for being on Brave Souls radio with Bernadette Young and me (July 10 2009). After the show I asked him whether a new tune came to him in his fingers whilst strumming or in his mind - a mental humming. He replied both and that he had written one song whilst on a plane after seeing the book cover of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring at an airport bookshop. The song was Silvery Rain later recorded by Olivia Newton-John and others:
Butterflies danced on invisible strings
Showing wings they borrowed from a rainbow
And a blackbird on high sang a praise to the sky
While a light aeroplane sprayed the fields
With a silvery rain...
Could have interviewed Hank for hours and chatted for days. Lovely bloke.
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