Rock N Roll Birthdays

[Prettymaid]

Happy birthday to my no-question-about-it favorite right now, Jackson Browne! I forgot his birthday is on the 9th, but I was going to post this in his thread today anyway, so I'll just post it here.

I've included the lyrics. I defy you to find a more positive break-up song! Giddyup!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYwSAIKlkeI[/ame]

It's been a long time since I watched these lights alone
I look around my life tonight and you are gone
I might have done something to keep you if I'd known
How unhappy you had become

While I was dreaming of you
With my heart in your hands
And I was following though
With my beautiful plans

Yeah now I'm rolling down this canyon drive
With your laughter in my head
I'm gonna have to block it out somehow to survive
'cause those dreams are dead
And I'm alive

I want to go where I will never hear your name
I want to lose my sorrow and be free again
And I know I've been insane
When I think of places I could have been

But I was dreaming of you
With my heart in your hands
And I was following through
With my beautiful plans

Standing here by the highway side
Watching these trucks blow by
Inches from my face
Yeah thinking 'bout the time I've wasted
And the pleasure we once tasted
Looking up and down this road
I've been here before
Can't be here no more

Yeah now I'm rolling down California five
With your laughter in my head
I'm gonna have to block it out somehow to survive
'cause those dreams are dead
And I'm alive

Hey look at the way I believed in you
And loved you all these years
Now you can fill a swimming pool with all my salty tears
you could have told me what was in your heart
but baby you lied
I thought that it would kill me
But I'm alive
Yeah, I'm alive



With my heart in your hands
And I was following though
With my beautiful plans

Yeah now I'm rolling down this canyon drive
With your laughter in my head
I'm gonna have to block it out somehow to survive
'cause those dreams are dead
And I'm alive

I want to go where I will never hear your name
I want to lose my sorrow and be free again
And I know I've been insane
When I think of places I could have been

But I was dreaming of you
With my heart in your hands
And I was following through
With my beautiful plans

Standing here by the highway side
Watching these trucks blow by
Inches from my face
Yeah thinking 'bout the time I've wasted
And the pleasure we once tasted
Looking up and down this road
I've been here before
Can't be here no more

Yeah now I'm rolling down California five
With your laughter in my head
I'm gonna have to block it out somehow to survive
'cause those dreams are dead
And I'm alive

Hey look at the way I believed in you
And loved you all these years
Now you can fill a swimming pool with all my salty tears
you could have told me what was in your heart
but baby you lied
I thought that it would kill me
But I'm alive
Yeah, I'm alive

[Brooke]

Beautiful! What a wonderful songwriter he is!

Thanks Pm!

[EagleLady]

If you go to google, You'll see that they are celebrating John Lennon's Birthday

[tequila girl]

Happy Birthday to John & Jackson - two of my favs.......... but especially John, he was my hero when I was growing up and I actually met his first wife Cynthia and son Julian several times as I lived in the same small town.
Still luv ya John!!

[Prettymaid]

Beautiful!

I know!



Oh, were you talking about the song?

[TimothyBFan]

Happy Birthday to John & Jackson - two of my favs.......... but especially John, he was my hero when I was growing up and I actually met his first wife Cynthia and son Julian several times as I lived in the same small town.
Still luv ya John!!

You met Julian? I really liked him back in the 80s when he started in the business. He seemed like a pretty cool guy on top of being talented. Have to admit, I've always felt a bit sorry for him since it seemed he kinda got the shaft from his father and Yoko.

[tequila girl]

You met Julian? I really liked him back in the 80s when he started in the business. He seemed like a pretty cool guy on top of being talented. Have to admit, I've always felt a bit sorry for him since it seemed he kinda got the shaft from his father and Yoko.

When I knew him he was still at school 15-16 ish he was friends with the son of people I worked for

[Troubadour]

What can you say about John Lennon? Such a legend. My Dad was a big Lennon fan. I remember him playing "Imagine" while lying in bed every Sunday morning. We played it in the church at his funeral.

PM, I am enjoying the current JB-love you having going on! I'm with you. He's amazing. Such a gorgeous vocalist and lyricist, and he seems like such a sweet, humble guy. He's not bad looking, either.

Some of my favourites. SO beautiful.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAu7gh7xoJo[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj1YzHd3tNU&feature=related[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFuK0NLrELU[/ame]

And I had to include a more upbeat one. This just happens to include the co-writer of this song, Danny Kortchmar, on guitar. (Looking a wee bit younger than he does in my sig!)

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-3TZiyY9Sk[/ame]

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Happy Birthday, Jackson! Thank you all for your incredible music.

And to celebrate what would have been his 70th birthday today, here is a tribute to one of the most legendary musicians to ever live ...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw[/ame]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!

The world still misses you.

[tequila girl]

Just wanted to get this in before the day is over.......

Monument to John

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6981Y620101009