Guest Column – Steve Rastin – TEN DAYS WHEN THE EARTH STOOD STILL
If you’re a music lover, you’ll recognise the symptoms I’m about to describe. You can be anywhere doing anything but music will be playing in the background via one source or another when suddenly, completely without warning, an unfamiliar song will hit you between the eyes (and ears) and for its duration you will be unaware of anything else going on around you. In the fullness of time it may or may not come to take on a fundamental meaning for you but in that first, awe inspiring moment it will have truly made the earth stand still. I’ve selected ten songs from my formative years to illustrate my point – read on (or better still, listen in) and enjoy.More