With its joyous melody and evocative lyrics, it became an instant classic and an ever-popular singalong number. Then the following night I came up with the lyrics - again in about half an hour." The guitar part took me about half-an-hour to put together.
"I was very hard-up at the time, with a young wife and baby, living off mushroom soup I'd nicked from Newcastle Mayfair, and pinching coal. "I'd written it long before it became a hit," remembers the 74-year-old multi-instrumentalist and singer. Meet Me On The Corner was written by Rod Clements who fronts the 2022 incarnation of Lindisfarne and is the sole survivor of the classic original line-up. It's 50 years since their first hit, the anthemic Meet Me On The Corner, entered the UK singles chart.īy the end of March, 1972, the song had climbed to number 5, rubbing shoulders with the likes of such evergreens as Don McLean's American Pie, Nilsson's Without You, and Paul Simon's Mother And Child Reunion. READ MORE: Then and Now: Newcastle's Haymarket area In the early 1960s, it was one-time Club a'Gogo resident five-piece, The Animals, with their electrifying take on the American blues, who hit the big time.Ī decade later, the folk-rock-cum-pop creations of a shaggy-haired Tyneside quintet with soaring vocal harmonies, called Lindisfarne, would gain a huge audience and earn them single and album success. They were the second great band to come out of Newcastle.
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