>> I found
>> myself starting to hum "Cat's In The Cradle".
Wow, there's a memory sparked. Crosses over with the music and memories thread, I suppose.
I remember spending some time in Northern Ireland in the early 90s. Whilst I was there, a television campaign was being run during commercial breaks in the evening news programmes. The film took an entire advert slot itself, and was an anti terrorism film with no narrative, but set to that song. It showed the life of a ficticious boy being born, passing through childhood and adolescense and growing in to a man, in a family involved in a terror organisation (could have been on either side), having lost his father as a result of the troubles, and eventually being killed as a consequence himself.
It brought a tear to my eye every time. Fantastic piece of television. I wonder if it's available anywhere online?
I seem to remember it was broadcast on the day a massive bomb went off on the Shankill Road, audible to me on the other side of Belfast. I may be wrong and am mixing memories, but there you go.
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