This is our love letter to the lost art of letter-writing…in songs. Consider it a carefully folded note passed across time. Signed, sealed, AND delivered by the Postal Service, or by hand. Song as letter, or letter as song, whatever the concept, these musical missives hit our hearts in ways an email can't. 

VIDEOS 

XTC: Dear God (1986)

Lulu: To Sir, With Love (1967) 

EXTRAS 

‘Dear God’: The violent protests triggered by XTC’s controversial single - Far Out Magazine 

The Blasphemous Story of XTC & "Dear God" I New British Canon - Trash Theory YouTube

Dear God · Todd Rundgren cover 

SNL Obama Tribute - Cecily Strong and Sasheer Zamata singing To Sir, With Love (2017)

One Song, Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze

Lulu performs Shout (1965)

Lulu performs Boom Bang-a-Bang for Eurovision (1969)

Lulu performs The Man With the Golden Gun (1975)

To Sir With Love: Representing Education and Race Relations

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