Given the sad news this week, I feel #DjFenneladon's #BlackFriday post today should be dedicated to my favourite #TinaTurner song from my favourite Tina Turner album (the 1984 Private Dancer), What's Love Got To Do With It?.

Rest in power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpFcHTxjZs [auto cc, reliable lyrics in the description]

Happy #BlackFriday ! 🎉🕺🏻

What more appropriate bit of musical history to celebrate with could there be than Mr. Excitement himself, Jackie Wilson?

Here he is with his 1973 Northern Soul classic Because of You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p24SxjDgUmk [no cc, lyrics here: https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Jackie-Wilson/Because-of-You]

#NorthernSoul #JackieWilson #DjFenneladon

Happy #BlackFriday !

This week's contribution from #DjFenneladon is a beautiful bit of 1990s British soul/R&B from #Gabrielle, featuring a rare Bob Dylan sample (given for free because he liked her song so much): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na93MI5NFy0 [no cc, version with lyrics only here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JiBTrK2WPI]

This #BlackFriday I'm going back to the music that got me into music in the first place - the melancholy beauty of #Motown.

Here is one of favourites from Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?

🎶As I walk this land of broken dreams,
I have visions of many things.
But happiness is just an illusion,
Filled with sadness and confusion🎶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQywZYoGB1g [no CC, lyrics here: https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/255821/Jimmy+Ruffin/What+Becomes+Of+The+Brokenhearted)

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#BlackFriday means it's time for some classic soul from #DjFenneladon - Al Green's sublime 1971 rendition of Tired Of Being Alone : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ll7ocQbH_k [no CC, lyrics here: https://genius.com/Al-green-tired-of-being-alone-lyrics]

As usual, my contribution to this week's #BlackFriday party is one of my favourite songs, a haunting 1975 classic from British soul band Hot Chocolate: A Child's Prayer.

🎶 Say a little prayer for all those who are poor
That they'll find peace of mind and the ones they adore
Say a little prayer, baby
For all those who have much more
That they'll find it in their hearts to lend a helping hand 🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t-q1l0TVlc

[no cc, lyrics here: https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/184305/Hot+Chocolate/A+Child%27s+Prayer]

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Sad that I keep missing the #BlackFriday party here.

As usual my contribution is a piece of music I love - one I've only looped 296 times this week. 🙃

A delicious 80s soul classic from #Champaign, "How 'Bout Us" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUqDr14DEw [cc]

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#DjFenneladon is one of the versions of me that could have happened if not for capitalism - instead I sometimes do a #MusicalInterlude when I have the energy, and sometimes do music quizzes for people I know. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I used to love this song when I hadn't yet escaped from England. I used to spend days with it on loop.

It perfectly describes the English people who make that place so miserable for someone like me.

It just came up on my player again by chance, and I think it's also a good anthem for our current pandemic situation:

🎶I'm relying on your common decency,
So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists 🎶

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGnX-MbYE4

(No cc, lyrics here: https://genius.com/Depeche-mode-people-are-people-lyrics)

#DjFenneladon #DepecheMode #England #Covid #MusicalInterlude