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FreddyHeadey Origins: Farewell to Stromness (30) RE: Origins: Farewell to Stromness 18 Oct 20


As the 1980 Peter Maxwell Davies piece has been mentioned, here are a couple of links.

The Yellow Cake Review, the suite in which it appeared, a protest against possible uranium mining on Orkney.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Cake_Revue

music
https://boosey.com/shop/prod/Peter-Maxwell-Davies-Yellow-Cake-Revue-Voice-Piano/606825

BBC 'Soul Music' 2019
Personal stories about 'Farewell to Stromness'.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000760l

Some lyrics were put to the PMD tune by Ray Connolly for the film Forever Young.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Young_(1983_film)
lyrics
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Sir-Peter-Maxwell-Davies/Farewell-To-Stromness


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