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Thread #174196 Message #4226024
Posted By: Helen
21-Jul-25 - 05:33 PM
Thread Name: Obit: David Cousins (Strawbs) (1940-2025)
Subject: RE: Obit: David Cousins (Strawbs) (1940-2025)
I've been thinking about the song on the Bursting at the Seams album called Lady Fuschia. A few years after I first heard the album and then bought it I read the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake and Lady Fuschia was an interesting but tragic character in the first two novels. Now I keep hearing the song in my head and thinking about those strange books.
A Wikipedia article about the Gormenghast Trilogy mentions a BBC TV production about the trilogy and also refers to a song by The Cure:
"Fuchsia is also the subject of the song 'The Drowning Man' by English rock band The Cure, which is about her death and mentions her by name."