Classic Pop revelation!

In a 2018 issue of Classic Pop magazine, Annie mentioned how she’d read a feature on the Eurythmics Savage album and that “One journalist wrote this wonderful piece about it, how it’s a masterpiece and how people never recognised it as the most extraordinary piece of music of its time.”

She didn’t mention the journalist by name but I felt almost certain she was referring to my blog article, as I was the only one to pen something substantial for the album’s 30th anniversary a few months earlier.

Well, tonight Matthew, when we met at Annie’s MassMoca show in AmericaI got the confirmation I was looking for.

“Was that you? Steve? Wow. I loved it! You are a wonderful writer. There’s a real art to your use of words, it was like reading poetry. Thank you for writing it.”

Of course, I was delighted beyond words. I cannot tell you how beautiful it was to hear such compliments from such a formidable singer songwriter.

What a woman. What a role model. What an inspiration.

Happy birthday Annie, and Sweet dreams everyone!