Upgrade to The Jotter Premium Plan here for access to this and all my other writing. A Shropshire Lad 2: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the...

Subscribe to my monthly newsletter here for all my latest writing. Stuart Adamson of Big Country had a tragic demise. All the more tragic, perhaps, because it’s a demise that’s all too familiar. He rose to fame young and, it seems, wasn’t prepared for the lifestyle that touring brought and the stress it would place upon his family. He died at the age of 43 having battled addiction. Indeed, his authorised biography ‘Stay Alive: The life and death of Stuart Adamson’ has just been published...

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