I wanted to buy the collection for his drawings but now I don't know which books have his original illustrations without being repainted by Dalby :( if anyone knows please tell me
Fascinating insight and almost like the tension in Pink Floyd or, as there were two people here, between Simon and Garfunkel when Artie and producer knew Bridge Over Troubled Water needed that final verse and Paul left the fraught discussion seemingly resolute that it did not but, only to return with one the following day. Sail on silver girl, sail on by… as the bass guitar picks out angelic notes before this final verse and the piano swells and rolls like moving waves on the deepest ocean. It’s impossible to imagine the song or the books without these now. How such divisions in thought were never meant to divide us but, rather bring us closer, toward a better conclusion, to unite us. There has to be love to hold such tumultuous seas ❤
Well done! This is an important piece of work; a fascinating story well told. You have rescued Reginald Payne from oblivion. I will share your video with as many friends as I can.
This song represents that nothing lasts forever steam engines were seen as revolutionary especially Mallard and the Scotsman look at today E2s and J70s and various others are gone just like any fads that were huge at one point. Or it’s just a sad song about locomotives that represents nothing
I believe that, by given Thomas a maturing arc, Britt Allcroft was building upon what Payne may have envisioned for Thomas when he made the illustrations for Thomas’s debut book.
He worked on the London Midland Region of BR (Ex-LMS) and was based at Kirkby in Ashfield I believe. A lot of the songs are stories of things that happened on shed (Turntable Song, The Day We Ran Away etc..)
