It still requires the reader or observer to colour in the words.
Quite obviously his works influenced some of the greatest music my (Lucky, re) generation could GROW up with to listen to.
I was first made aware of the group STYX, by a brief aquantence with someone in College, who did me the great kindness of lending me the Album.
The greatest gifts are given by those who ask for nothing in return..
I was pretty skint in those day's, so would never have had exposure to the album had those circumstances not unfolded, as STYX were not really mainsteam entertinment, so the radio would not have emitted that alluring sound to my ears.
This is one of Many of those songs that were inspired by Tolkien, you cant really get more obvious than that really..
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Then, we move on to Led Zepplin, one of my favourite band's by who's music I measure my own evolution..
Again, the Tolkien influnce is strong with this one.
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You could take that song back in time to the dawn of the stringed instrument and play it, sing it and drift away into another world..
possibly the future you came from ? where in the bigger picture of things, little has changed..
The piper is calling, the message drifts on the whispering wind.
