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Hong Kong

from 1965 by Bill Jackson

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    ABOUT ‘1965’: LINER NOTES
    1965 was the year of my musical awakening, coinciding with what some would describe as a watershed and revolutionary year in music. Everyone got a licence to write, inspired by the creative output of artists like The Byrds, Dylan, The Stones, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, the Bakersfield and Nashville sounds, Motown – the list goes on. Pop became Rock and Roll and accelerated the drive for personal freedom. My life would never be the same as I launched into my first chords on guitar. I also started writing not long after that and here I am…
    ‘I had a dream last night it was the strangest thing
    Chapter by chapter it drew me in
    New York city 1965
    With beatniks and hipsters in a West Side dive’
    Songs and writing - different children, same kin. Sometimes it takes a muse, sometimes it takes a drink or a moment or forever. Most of the time it just takes hard thinking and hoping that the magic will arrive and that it pleases you. That last song you wrote. It always feels like your last but deep down inside you just keep writing. It’s what you do.
    Ten new songs – simple little folk songs but the layers will go as deep as you are willing to peel them back. Most are new and most are collaborations with Ross Jackson and Kerryn Tolhurst. Ah Ross the lyricist. Kerryn pushing me into landscapes I had never imagined and the reason this record sounds different and why each song sounds different to the one before it - why you can maybe live more inside these tunes than inside anything else I’ve ever done before - karma, love, war, aging, promises, brotherhood, cold beds, lost love, traveling and so on.

    And then there are the sounds of the beautiful musicians Kerryn called on for this record who each gave some part of their soul to these songs. And then the jigsaw puzzle finally becomes an image. And then you give that image to the world and hope, like every parent, that it finds its own community and love. I love this record and I hope you do as well. In so many ways I have come the full circle since 1965 – Bill Jackson (2023)

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Hong Kong

The first time I heard The Stones was in a Hong Kong bar drinkin’ gin
They were playing Satisfaction I was three sheets to the wind
The rest was alI just neon lights fadin’ into day
I woke up back on board and the warship sailed away

There’s nothin’ like a heavin’ deck to help you catch your breath
Pretty soon your all consumed with your life and death
And as the blows get heavy in this life we fight
I think about Satisfaction in a Hong Kong bar that night

There’s nothin’ like a heavin’ deck to live your troubles through
‘Cause pretty soon your all consumed with a sailor’s right to spew
And as the blow gets fiercer and the wind whips ups a spray
You ride the buckin’ bronco sea through another day

It was nearly fifty years ago how come it’s hit me now
Every time I hear The Stones I go back there somehow
Back into my early teens when this world was mine
When I knew most everythin’ ‘bout women, songs and wine

There’s nothin’ like a heavin’ deck to live your troubles through
‘Cause pretty soon your all consumed with a sailor’s right to spew
And as the blow gets fiercer and the wind whips ups a spray
You ride the buckin’ bronco sea through another day

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from 1965, released October 14, 2023
7. HONG KONG ((B.Jackson/K.Tolhurst/R.Jackson)
Bill Jackson – Vocals/Acoustic Guitar/Backing Vocals
Kerryn Tolhurst – Electric Guitar
Simon Bruce - Backing Vocals
James Gillard – Bass
Andrew Swann - Drums

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