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Thread #55203   Message #3604785
Posted By: GUEST,Roderick
25-Feb-14 - 01:40 PM
Thread Name: Chord Req/Add: Ballad of the Sad Young Men
Subject: RE: Chord Req/Add: Ballad of the Sad Young Men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgudr5BwDdk
Fran was an extraordinary person and lyric writer living in London from 1964 onwards as Fran Fabulous with her husband Stan Stunning. If you like this song I encourage you to find out more about her. You may be shocked but you will not regret it.

"In 1994 she met the jazz pianist and composer Simon Wallace and they developed an enduring creative relationship that produced some of her finest work." (300 songs) - we who are affected by her streams of perception and honesty can be proud to hear and perform these works in debt to her inspirational legacy.

Links to some of the many obituaries for Fran:

www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/aug/10/fran-landesman-obituary

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8663810/Fran-Landesman.html

www.nytimes.com/.../fran-landesman-lyricist-with-a-bittersweet-edge-dies-at- 83.html and follow to Archive

www.bbc.co.uk/.../Last_Word_John_Stott_Stan_Barstow_Derek_ BryceSmith_David_Dunseith_and_Fran_Landesman/ follow link to iplayer

news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Fran-Landesman-.6811292.jp