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1989

A Life In Song – 1989

  • US planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean (Jan. 4).
  • Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini declares author Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death (Feb. 14).
  • Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing‘s Tiananmen Square in rally for democracy (April 19 et seq.). More than one million in Beijing demonstrate for democracy; chaos spreads across nation (mid-May et seq.). Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward demonstrators (June 4 et seq.).
  • Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President (May 25).
  • P. W. Botha quits as South Africa’s President (Aug. 14).
  • Deng Xiaoping resigns from China’s leadership (Nov. 9).
  • After 28 years, Berlin Wall is open to West (Nov. 11).
  • Czech Parliament ends Communists’ dominant role (Nov. 30).
  • Romanian uprising overthrows Communist government (Dec. 15 et seq.); President Ceausescu and wife executed (Dec. 25).
  • US troops invade Panama, seeking capture of General Manuel Noriega (Dec. 20).

Read more:  Top News Stories from 1989 http://www.infoplease.com/year/1989.html#ixzz3W4HUhtPl

Against that backdrop of world events, combined with attempting to run a business and support/parent young children, I wrote these songs (many of which are just being recorded now).

Song #120   |  Let My People Go   | January 1989   |

Song #121   |  Don’t Be A Goof! Be A Slug!   |  February  1989   |

Song #122   |  Andrea   |  February 1989   |

Song #123   |  Jack And The Beanstalk   |  March 1989   |

Song #124   |   Living In The Suburbs   |  March 1989   |

Song # 125   |   Kite  |  April 1989   |

 Song #126   |   Stuffy The Dragon  | April 1989   |

Song #127   |   Waiting For A Sign   |  May 1989   |

Song #128   |  In The Gentle Falling of The Rain   |  May 1989   |

Song #129   |   Wanderer   |  May 1989   |

Song #130   |   The Detective   |  June 1989   |

Song #131   |   I’m Not Afraid Of The Dark   |  June 1989   |

Song #132   |  All The Money’s Gone   |  June 1989   |

Song #133   |  I Am Such A Fool   |  June 1989   |

Song #134   |   Juliette   |  July 1989   |

Song #135   |  Rise And Fall   |  July 1989   |  CD: Feather On The Wind

Song # 136   |   Just Another Day In The Jungle   |  August 1989   |

Song #137   |   Nobody Else But You   |  September 1989   |

Song # 138   |   The Moon On The River   |  September 1989   |

Song #139   |   My Tree House   |  September 1989   |

Song #140   |   It Must Be Great To Be A Dog!   |  October 1989   |

Song #141   |   It’s A Holy Day (or, What I did On my Summer Vacation)   |  October 1989   |

Song #142   |   Feather On The Wind   |  October 1989   |

Song #143   |   Walls   |  November 22, 1989   |

Song # 137   |   Dragons Live Forever   |  December 1989   |

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