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Fire and Rain

Fire and Rain

Update: 2023-11-048
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James Taylor's song of suicide, loneliness and addiction somehow remains hopeful and uplifting, even as people experience their own dark times.

Holly Sinclair was driving through a Missouri winter to see her brother, in hospital after a suicide attempt, when the song came on the radio.

Michael Granberry, arts writer for the Dallas Morning News, is also a huge James Taylor fan. He's the same age as Taylor, and reflects on the context of assassinations and war raging in America when he wrote Fire and Rain.

Peter Asher was James Taylor's manager and producer, and remembers their first meeting, and the first time he heard Fire and Rain.

Marcia Hines released a successful cover version of the song after moving from America to Australia as a teenager, and hearing the song blasting out of radios on both sides of the world.

Mark Deeks and Jeff Alexander from Sing United community choir talk about the emotions generated when people sing a song they feel a connection to.

And Peter Bardaglio, climate change activist, talks about a summer of fire and rain.

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Sally Heaven

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Nov 7th
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