This week with the theme 'Our Virtue', I had to really think hard.
Then I realised one of my favourite songs is all about virtue...or lack of it.
'Nothing Rhymed' is a thinly disguised protest song, by Irish singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was released in the British charts in 1970, when people in the West were becoming more widely aware about people in other countries, who were literally starving. He wrote it because he was so shocked when he saw films of African people on the television, who were in the last stages of starvation.
The singer calls his own virtue in to question when the lyrics talk specifically about how he might sit drinking 'Bonapart Shandy' (meaning Brandy) and eating too much fancy food like apple pies, whilst watching the news on television, showing people suffering famine in parts of Africa.
I myself remember seeing the people of Ethiopia, on television when I was a child. There were huge fundraisers going on in schools across the united Kingdom, which all children took part in.
To record this, I played the piano and sung in to a condenser mic, then played and multi-tracked the bass and drums, using Logic pro.
