Dream Harder by Toodle-oo (Alex McPherson and Julien Caine, Aberdeen, Scotland) скачать в хорошем качестве

Dream Harder by Toodle-oo (Alex McPherson and Julien Caine, Aberdeen, Scotland)

This originally started as two separate (part-written) songs – • firstly, back several years ago I had watched the BBC programme “Who do you think you are?”, which featured the BBC’s Fiona Bruce. Her father had come from Hopeman in Moray (where both my father and grandfather were born), had joined Unilever as a mail boy at 15 and somehow rode through the ranks to become a regional Managing Director. The impression I was left with was that she couldn’t really understand how her father could have originated from this fishing village, and yet have achieved a senior role in business. That irritated me. (I am possibly being very unfair to her, but that was the impression that stuck in my mind). • secondly, one about an old school friend, George Fraser, who I hadn’t seen in 50 years. What I’d learnt was that, in the intervening years, he had got a first class honours B.Sc degree in Physics at Aberdeen University, did a PhD and later become Professor at Leicester University, founding the UK Institute of Space. Not bad for someone from a fishing village on the Moray Firth of Scotland, whose first fascination with space was building models of Apollo rockets and the Thunderbirds crafts from toilet rolls and papier mache! We both attended Elgin Academy where the school motto coincidentally was “Sic itur ad astra” - This is the way to the stars. Sadly, George died suddenly, back in 2014. Of course to achieve anything you have to work hard and take the opportunities that come your way, and so, the message of the song is really that anyone get to the top of the tree, even if they come from the fishing villages of Moray. They just have to Dream Harder ! Alex McPherson December 2024