Hi, Keren - am sort of in deep trouble with some Brokie friends, because I had accumulated a ton of notes, over months, in case one of the forums would ever go to a memorial biography, and, for reasons of fatigue, and maybe heartbreak, I threw them out just last week. And wouldn't you know it, now one of the forums wants to do just that, and here I've lost all the links and references. So, no, I can't give you a link.
But as for that song, it may have been one of those played at the memorial service in Perth. Andrew had asked me for the list, so he still might have it. I do know, it kept recurring, in interviews with friends and in articles. And there was another "un-hip" song he favored, more cheerful, and that might have been "Here comes the sun", but am not sure. Both stood out as different from his more modern tastes.
"Old man", however, is REALLY sentimental, bittersweet, melancholy, and I know it's a guy thing, but it touches so deeply on the loneliness a man can have, guys either ran from it or waited until they were drunk enough to play it on the juke box. Artistically, it's maudlin. But in some primitive way, it speaks to something men can hurt over very deeply- no one being there for them. It would have been the song Ennis would NOT have wanted to hear, in the diner. Sorry, that's the best I can do. But I believe it to be a major clue as to how Heath sometimes saw life, when disappointed. Sometimes. He also liked that moronic happy/happy song, too. Heath had his ways, didn't he?
P.S. This should probably have been on the other thread, but you are a moderator, so I guess you cut some slack. Thanks.
