November 11th, 2009, 1 Comment »
There’s only so much one can say about Remembrance Day. The ceremony is pretty much the same from year to year–this year I attended the one in front of the Legislature here in Victoria. I’ve written a lot about this day in the past: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
This year I was thinking back to the Remembrance Day assemblies in elementary and high school. One year, I have a clear memory of a video being shown, featuring a song, I think, by Bryan Adams. I even remember some of the lyrics:
The guns will be silent - on Remembrance Day
There’ll be no more fighting - on Remembrance Day
This wasn’t the video, but here’s the song. It’s hardly In Flanders Fields, but it’s what I was thinking about today.
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May 15th, 2007, No Comments »
Bryan Adams is everywhere in Malta. He’s playing a concert at Luxol Parade Grounds on June 28, and it’s being heavily promoted around the country. As I walk around Rabat, his grizzled, acne-scarred visage watches me from every telephone pole and shop window. As a Canadian, it’s a bit surreal.
Mind you, I feel like Bryan kind of stopped being Canadian about 15 years ago. Like so many megastars of the eighties (I’m thinking here of the likes of Madonna, Michael Jackson and Celine Dion), he belongs to the world. It’s like, if people in Cameroon wanted to listen to some ‘world music’ from Canada, they’d listen to Bryan.
Though I’ve never seem him in concert, I really haven’t been much of a fan since Reckless, which I believe I still have somewhere on audio tape.
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