(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHAT AM I WITHOUT YOU")ĮLBOW: (Singing) The universe keeps singing this song. The last song, "What Am I Without You," on "Flying Dream 1" is written to Rachael.
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And she wasn't afraid of talking about it. I've never befriended somebody who was dying before. I have a now 4-year-old son called Jack, who was just about 3, and she spent her last days in a candy pink room and her grandson nipping into her bed for stories. She came to us, and she spent her last months in our house. And as soon as we were alone, Diana said, I have lung cancer. On the third day, I was there at the play with her mother, who was the late, great Diana Rigg.
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GARVEY: Rachael Stirling is my wife, yes. My wife was in a play at the Lyric Theater, the first time she's had her face emblazoned across huge billboards, and she was three dates into it. after a brief stint promoting "Giants Of All Sizes." I had a surprise birthday party in my beloved hometown of Manchester, and then the following day, the world stopped. GARVEY: Well, we had just come back from the U.S. I wonder what these past 20, 21 months have been like for you. The effect of so many people being at home during the pandemic has made us reflect on what our children will remember of it and think back to our own childhood. SIMON: And let's please do talk about childhood, because I know, certainly, the loss of a parent moves us to think about our childhood. I had occasion to stay there a couple of years ago and Proustian rush - sort of getting up in the middle of the night and just remembering this memory I seem to have of floating down the stairs there - a good way to get into talking about my childhood.ĮLBOW: (Singing) Deep in my bones. But my mom still lives in the house where I grew up. GARVEY: Who knows? I have a memory of a memory of a memory of having had a flying dream when I was a child - must be rooted in something. SIMON: "Flying Dream 1" - it's a dream you had as a child? SIMON: Guy Garvey of Elbow joins us now from Brixton in London. Mom and my sisters all blissful and feathered. It's called "Flying Dream 1."ĮLBOW: (Singing) Flying dream one, dead of the night when prayer group was gone.
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This institution of British rock has a new album now put together over the course of this pandemic, and it is reflective, poetic and nostalgic, spotlighting tales from Guy Garvey's childhood. On their last album, the lead singer and lyricist Guy Garvey reflected on the death of his father and his consternation over Britain leaving the European Union. The band Elbow writes personal, deeply felt songs.