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By KeithKnight

November Challenge - After - Prelude (TENUOUS!)

Day 29 of the November Daily Challenge - After

When I saw today's theme Neil Young's song "After the Goldrush" popped into my mind and has been there all day, except that my mind was thinking of the version performed by Prelude.

Looking up the song (rather than the album) on Wiki told me that the idea of recording the song, and doing it a cappella, was the result of them singing it while waiting at a bus stop (hence no instruments) -

"We were standing at a bus stop in Stocksfield and we just started singing it. There was no particular reason, it was just a nice song. The way we do it now is really no different from the way we did it at the bus stop. We included it in our act and it went down really well - even the rowdier clubs listened to it. We certainly never thought of it as a possible single. In any case we always thought of ourselves as an album group rather than making singles and included the song on the album How Long Is Forever as an afterthought"

For me this is the best version - it's been recorded many times by many artists, but this has the voice of Irene Hume which makes a huge difference. Should you understand the lyrics then please let Neil Young know - he doesn't!

So my extremely tenuous "After" is a bus stop, because one of those led to Prelude recording the song.

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