Not 1971 - 1967. One of the great psych-pop songs of that or any other era. The (fabulous) arrangement was written by Jean Bouchéty, who conducted the orchestra on most of Michel's greatest recordings.

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I see that Ben Wilkinson's job description is "Head of money" at the @thetimes.com. I also see that his previous employers were the Mail and the Telegraph. BW is not on @bsky.app so I cannot tag him, which I regret.

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Rome, Open City is so good.

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The 39 Steps The Third Man The Wicker Man Withnail and I Went the Day Well

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‘Sicily and Italy don’t have a monopoly on racketeering; the dynamics of corruption that Leonardo Sciascia dramatises in his novels are in many respects the same in Westminster or Washington as in Palermo.’ Thomas Jones (@moonjets.bsky.social) on the Sicilian writer. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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