Church (Rock) Cemetery

"Even the stand-out track from the album, which went on to be a massive hit for Captain and Tennille, tempered Sedaka's cautious optimism with palpable insecurity. The title of the song, 'Love Will Keep Us Together', would later provide direct inspiration for Ian Curtis, who used a cracked mirror image as the chorus of his greatest and most poignant lyric: 'Love Will Tear Us Apart.' With unbelievable synchronicity, and unbeknown to Curtis at the time, both tales of the underlying paranoia lurking beneath a long-term relationship were recorded in the same room"   Paul Hanley, 'Leave the Capital'

A nice day-off; I met Beck for lunch, had a wander round the cemetery, drank a very fine espresso and learnt something new about the Manchester music scene...
                                               

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