St James Infirmary Blues - Cab Calloway
Betty Boop cartoon St James Infirmary Blues
New Orleans man plans his own funeral after his woman has died - 'Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain/So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat'
Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
'It's basically a love song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners'
- gothic storyline V Byrdsian guitar line
Never Get Old - David Bowie
Existentialist - Bowie is not merely content to rage against the dying of the light. 'there's never going to be enough money/never going to be enough drugs/never going to be enough sex'
Goin Back - The Byrds
'But thinking young and growing old is no sin'
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Anbara Salam’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Salvage
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"Much like considering the food and clothes of the time, I find that
thinking about the musical world that shaped my characters is a really
useful texture ...
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