When I came back to the States from Vietnam and was discharged from the Army, I was so full of the rock & roll philosophy that I determined that no one was ever again going to tell me what to do. I was a teenager when the Beatles burst onto the American scene in 1964. Rock & roll was my lifestyle and Self was my god. We cried,’ and I thought that sums up that song for me.W hen I was saved by God’s grace in 1973, I was saved out of a hippie-druggie background. Highly romantic stuff, this, but it was very nice because she just wrote me a letter, thanks and all that, and told me about the wedding and all that, about her husband but she just put this one little line, she said, ‘You know we had a great time. They got married to it and it was like their first dance. You can’t keep it, but,’ I said, ‘I’ll send you the proper record when we’re done with it.’Īnd it was great, really lovely. So very quietly I just sort of sent her, a few weeks later, she told me when she was getting married and you know where it would be, so I got her number off her, sent her a little letter saying, ‘Look, if you love it that much, why don’t you play this at your wedding?’ So I said, ‘but this is highly bootleggable,’ I said, ‘so just play it and send it me back. And the girl who was doing the massage said, ‘Oh, I love that song, it’s magnificent,’ and she happened to tell me she was getting married. ![]() A nice little story about it was, I was in America and I was actually getting a massage and I happened to play it.
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