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The story of the US is very sad, really. Tragic more than sad. It often brings to mind that one- liner from a song by Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot: “I don’t know where we went wrong, But the feeling’s gone, andThe day the music died - Rodolfo Ragonesi
The story of the US is very sad, really. Tragic more than sad. It often brings to mind that one- liner from a song by Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot: “I don’t know where we went wrong, But the feeling’s gone, and I just can’t get it back.” I grew up with a sort of childhood crush on the United States that keeps calling itself America. Like so many others I loved its music. I adored Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, The Boss Bruce Springsteen, the Beach Boys, Don McLean, the Doors and all the other rock ’n’ roll greats. And yes, even less rebellious country legends John Denver and Glen Campbell, whose guitar playing genius is little known outside the American South. I was enthralled by American comics and superheroes. I was mesmerised by the literary genius of Edgar Allen Poe in tales like the Fall of the House of Usher. I never missed an American comedy on TV. I even went through that boy phase, buying illustrated encyclopaedias of American warships, studying them inside out, and marvelling at all their firepower that seemed destined to save the world. Writing my constitutional law thesis on a... Read more