Johannes
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I remember B. mentioning two times a story about a "guy in a liquor store" who "read something in the LA-Times" about him and therefore would greet him by saying "WINGS OF SONG!", whenever he entered that liquor-store:
1. The Hackford-documentation. There B. says something like:
"I think the gods have been kinda good to me. Kept me where I belong. Just kept me where I belong. Not too much. Just right. I can walk down the street nobody knows me. Except the guys in the liquor store, they read something in the LA Times, something came out. I go in for a beer, you know, buy some beer, this guy says: WINGS OF SONG! He knows me."
2. A story I can't remember. I've read it in german translation only and think it was called "Mensch Meier" or something, probably from "Pittsburgh Phil & Co." which would be "South of No Nord". (Maybe roni knows better? The original title?)
Anyway, that leads to two questions:
1. Which Article in the LA Times was that? Any ideas anybody?
2. And, why "Wings of Song?" Is it from a B.-poem?
Googling the term there is a 1979 science fiction novel called like that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Wings_of_Song) which can't be the source.
Then there is a collection of songs by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy called "On Wings Of Song" (http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/55150.asp) which seems more likely and has its name obviously from a poem from german poet Heinrich Heine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine)
Does anybody know more about this?
1. The Hackford-documentation. There B. says something like:
"I think the gods have been kinda good to me. Kept me where I belong. Just kept me where I belong. Not too much. Just right. I can walk down the street nobody knows me. Except the guys in the liquor store, they read something in the LA Times, something came out. I go in for a beer, you know, buy some beer, this guy says: WINGS OF SONG! He knows me."
2. A story I can't remember. I've read it in german translation only and think it was called "Mensch Meier" or something, probably from "Pittsburgh Phil & Co." which would be "South of No Nord". (Maybe roni knows better? The original title?)
Anyway, that leads to two questions:
1. Which Article in the LA Times was that? Any ideas anybody?
2. And, why "Wings of Song?" Is it from a B.-poem?
Googling the term there is a 1979 science fiction novel called like that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Wings_of_Song) which can't be the source.
Then there is a collection of songs by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy called "On Wings Of Song" (http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/55150.asp) which seems more likely and has its name obviously from a poem from german poet Heinrich Heine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine)
Does anybody know more about this?
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