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Whilst photographing (May 2015), changes in pubs I came across a lady street singer who regularly sung in Gallowtree Gate. As usual she had drawn a crowd as she was very good, singing everything from Etta James, 1950s rock, to modern. Amongst the crowd were some pensioners, including one old lady in a wheelchair. When the girl started to sing Phil Spector’s ‘Will you still love me tomorrow’, it must have stared something in the old girl, as she rose from her wheelchair and danced the whole song, before returning to her wheelchair to applause from the crowd.
Forget the drugs, the song and music did it for her. She must have been in her 80s but this old dear cheered us all up with her impromptu dance. Her therapy was in the music.
Barry Lount
