11 June 2014

Just half noon here in NE Scotland. I look at the calendar and see the date and understand why this song has been in my head all night and day.

I will never forget that night behind the El Monte Elks Club, all of us standing around the then 17yo you in awe, and me with my terrible crush on you and how good you and your sister Wilma were to me over the years, never once making fun of me about it. I'll never forget how one day we all went onto our own separate lives, and how one morning a few years ago on the way to work I heard on the radio that the second of the Quarry brothers had died.

This one is for you. May your next life be all this one should have been, Mike - and I hope you and Ellen find each other again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUnIDTEwxWo