yo! I love how it goes from hard guitar playing to the emotional piano and deep lyrics 

wonderful collaboration guys,  I want to hear this track live in a stadium 

Abolutely epic, brilliant track!! Wonderful song, brilliant production & playing!!

there are some tracks on SC that seem perhaps too good for the rest of the listening world, gems that somehow seem to belong to us - can't help but think Bowie would find this to be as sensational as so many of us do - yowza

this is up there with 10cc and ELO for me , want to rush to the nearest record shop and buy it .... oh they're all closed

More than fantastic - a huge thing  What an amazing combination, You really did what you set out to do, both a youse. All of the tribute you wanted it to be, plus novel brilliance!

love this so much i am putting it up for RADIO EVOLVED tonight at 8pm uk

@wheelwright wrote the song after David Bowie died. He had a beautifully strong song and vocal, on a smaller arrangement of piano, some strings and brass pads.

Wheelwright then ran it past me and I immediately begged to be his Mick Ronson and Tony Visconti! We think we’ve ended up with a truly collaborative result that is much bigger in scope than the original; via a lot of close and truly enjoyable discussion and idea bouncing. It's always wonderful to work with truly gifted folk like Michael.
  
@wheelwright: Concept, words, vocals, chord structure and vocal melody, piano, some strings and brass.

@phil-mcwalter: Guitars, trumpets, drums and percussion, bass, choir, bells, synths, cello, extra strings, overall production on all parts, mixing and mastering.

Song For A Fallen Rockstar

Well there's a danger
If you're a rock star
And you live too long
They'll say you died too late to save your reputation

But what do they know
They still played the songs you sang
And printed photographs
Of you when you were young

Oh what do they know
Yeah what do they know
There can be no music in their souls

Just for a moment
Seemed like a star shone
Brighter than the sun

But on the next day
It was all explained away
And life just carried on

But this unbearable
Sense of impermanence
It builds us up
It cuts us down

But when the air is still
Just before the dawn
I think maybe
Oh just maybe
I could find my way back home

Then all the bad girls sing along
Coz all the good girls couldn't come
To your performance

And as the closing credits roll
All the kids get up to go
Oh maybe someone shed a tear
But we'll never know
And I begin to realise
I'm not so good at letting go

They'll try to break into your mind
They'll try to steal away your strangeness
But there’s no future with no engine of desire
Oh who’s going to paint those pictures
Who’s going to set the world on fire

Oh who needs structure for the sake of structure
Who needs love for the sake of love
When your daddy said "history repeats..." you said
"I don't wanna to hear about that..."

And when they took him away he said
"Please don't test my blood, in case it's already cold"

And we made up all these stories
But they turned out to be true
But we’ve got to make a new life
Anywhere but here

And we ran before the flood
And we thought our hearts would burst
But it turns out we were young
And so we didn't die

And we ran before the flood
And we thought our hearts would burst
And I took your hand in my hand
And we ran for miles and miles

And I'm dreaming that I'm lying here
With my back against the snow
I'm reaching for the stars
But the earth won't let me go
They say there's nothing left now
But something still remains
Yeah

There's something out there...

© Wheelwright May 2016

https://soundcloud.com/wheelwright/song-for-a-fallen-rockstar-wheelwright-phil-mcwalter

SONG FOR A FALLEN ROCKSTAR (with overture) Wheelwright & Phil McWalter

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Composer/Guitarist/Producer

Songs: We find them unpainted in our hands, throw them up into the air of our imagination, turning them in the colours we see after we close our eyes until they feel just right, and sometimes we catch them perfectly, without blemishing them...

My music is on most platforms for your ease.

Wow!!  417K+ plays and 4,000+ valued followers and friends on SC alone, that provide lots of wonderfully helpful comments that fuel the next track! Really big thanks to the SC community for listening and providing such brilliant feedback and support. It means so much to myself and my collaborators - huge thanks.

I work in different styles, as the inspiration, dreams or bubonic plagiarism comes! I use Logic Pro X on Mac.
 
I write, produce and play all my own stuff (unless otherwise stated), play vintage Tokai Strats mainly, PRS Torero, Steinberger, Gretsch G2627T, Classical, Fender Dreadnought, Yamaha and Rickenbacker basses, keyboards and sax. I use Native Instrument's Komplete, Omnisphere 2 and my own organic samples.

I mix on Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's and HD 650's (closed and open headphones) when not making a bigger noise through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors. I use Focusrite Clarett 2Pre ThunderBolt and Apogee audio interfaces, Neumann & iSK condenser & AKG dynamic mics. 

Hardware: Feb 1978 Marshall JMP 50W Combo, BOO & BOSS stomps

I love collaborating with other musicians and will compose with, play guitar for, produce, arrange, master or even just hum along with other SC musicians. Please ask!

P.S. I am a long standing member of the Performing Rights Society and PPL through my old TV and theatre work as well as my record and publishing deals.

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