Music sheet manuscript4/9/2024 Over the years there have been so may epics… ‘Borderline’ is another classic that builds and ebbs and flows and sounds wonderful. I’m struck for a moment that this may be the final ‘final’ track on a Magnum album. I first head Magnum before I was a teenager and their music has been with me ever since. Penultimate track: ‘I Wanna Live’ is the contrast that Magnum do so well, gently building and full of light – almost yearing, it’s all the positive energy you could muster in a song of hope and one of my real standouts here along with the singles and the opener.Ĭloser ‘Borderline’ brings me to a standstill again. It’s clearly a reflection of the world today, of conflict, of destruction and stark and powerful as anything that has come before. ‘Broken City’ feels dark and cold, despondent and mournful and you can’t help but feel the picture of despair painted by Clarkin’s words and Bob’s vocal. A real highlight on this album!” You can’t help but agree! The recordings were great fun, especially the moment when Chris’s sax took the lead and my guitar responded. The second single ‘The Seventh Darkness’ though is just like the Magnum we all love and now but with a twist:Īs Tony said: “ (There’s) some awesome brass sections courtesy of guest musicians Chris ‘BeeBe’ Aldridge (saxophone) and Nick Dewhurst (trumpet), which lend the song brilliance and shape. Songs like ‘The Day He Lied’ may lyrically be less open to interpretation but are just as powerful. I’ve always found that part of the real charm of Magnum’s lyrics – the elemental nature and the universal themes all set in the unique world Clarkin created. So I’m sort of protective about explaining the meaning of songs that I’ve written because it can actually spoil a person’s enjoyment of the song, better that they find their own meaning in it.” Clarkin: “ Over the years hearing maybe some records that were my favourite songs at the time and then only much later did I ever discover that the meaning of the song was totally different to what I thought it was. “ I thought this would give me more time to do it, but I found it harder to get into a writing mindset when I was being interrupted by preparing for live shows.”Īs far as subject matter is concerned, he doesn’t have a hangup with any particular topic but takes inspiration from all sorts of places. Complete explanations of qualified items can be found in the DMM.Clarkin spent more time writing this album because the tour getting delayed due to Covid split his normal writing time into two sections. Upon such inspection, matter not eligible for the Media Mail rate may be assessed at the proper price and sent to the recipient postage due, or the sender may be contacted for additional postage.įor more information about Media Mail service, please visit or call 1-800-ASK-USPS (1-80). In accordance with standards in the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM), Section 170, Media Mail packages must have a delivery address and the sender’s return address and are subject to inspection by the Postal Service™. Books may contain incidental announcements of other books and sound recordings may contain incidental announcements of other sound recordings. Media Mail packages may not contain advertising.
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