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BBC Songwriters Circle: Finn-Adams-Ian

Written by Jimmy

If you haven’t started watching this series – do!  Each week, three singer songwriters occupy centre stage and go through their hits.   The songwriter is always accompanied by the other two.  Here’s an example of Janis Ian and Ryan Adams joining Neil Finn on Weather with You:

Five facts that I didn’t know:

• Janis Ian wrote At 17 at 24, but her first hit Society’s Child she wrote at 13 and had the hit at 14.  Here’s At 17:

• Ryan Adams New York must be one of the last music videos done in front of the Twin Towers – on September 7th 2001, four days before the attacks.

• After Crowded House broke up, they did one last concert, inviting Tim Finn back to take the lead vocal in Weather With You.  Here’s the concert at Sydney Opera House

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• There was a special about the 50th Anniversary of the Troubador in Southern California – James Taylor and Carol King ‘narrated’ and closed with this duet:

• And just in case you forgot the stunning talent we’ve lost…here’s Amy doing an acoustic version of Valerie:

Jimmy