BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Story by Phil Gailey
Then, one day, I am sitting in an okonomiyaki restaurant as a rare treat, when Bridge Over Troubled Water comes on the radio. A song so familiar that I had ceased experiencing it as a piece of music a long time ago. If anything, I was slightly dismissive of it: the glossy production, its mawkish grandiosity.
BRIGHT EYES by ART GARFUNKEL. Memoir by Melanie Cheng
As fitting as it was to imagine Mrs Hart perched atop a fleecy cloud, my sympathies were firmly with her howling, motherless child.
Brimful of Asha by Cornershop (Norman Cook remix). Story by Stephen Andrew.
Stephen Andrew The road from Hurstbridge to St Andrews, summer, 2000I pulled off the road and spun the wheel of my iPod. I dialled up Cornershop singing Brimful of Asha. Tenzin listened intently and then said, “Play that again, Dad.”
BROKEN by PATRICK WATSON. Story by Chris Lambert
I’ve been in the emergency psych ward for about 24 hours. There’s not much to do besides talking to other patients, and I’m feeling restless. I have three songs from Wave, the latest Patrick Watson album.
BROWN SKIN BABY (THEY TAKE HIM AWAY) by BOB RANDALL. Text by Anne-Marie Smith
Well before Took The Children Away by Archie Roach was the 1970 song Brown Skin Baby (They Took Me Away) by Bob Randall.
Bruise Violet by Babes In Toyland. Story by Rijn Collins.
Rijn Collins The Metro, Melbourne, November 1995Agoraphobia starts slowly. There’s a tremble of a hand on the doorknob, a flutter of your heart on the tram, and then suddenly it’s been two years of watching your housemates walk down the front path, without you.