| The Dream Academy – Life in a Northern Town Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| @ctlizyrd I lived (born and grew up) in Tanworth-in-Arden .... It is not a town ...it is a very affluent and sleepy little village about 15 miles South of the centre of Birmingham and not a Northern Town as the song suggests. (Unless you live in London and therefore anything North of Watford is considered The North..lol). I don't have any recollections of Nick Drake singing out in the open there, to small groups of followers (nor do others I know, living there). In fact by the time he was at boarding school and then University, he rarely visited or stayed home. The song (and the video) really belies the fact that he came from a privileged upbringing. "Far Leys" his parents home in Tanworth-in-Arden is a large country house, not your 2 up, 2 down terraced house that you find in most Northern Industrial towns. | |
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