papal arrivals/departures
back in 1982, the pope visited edinburgh ... in the same few weeks that the rolling stones played the playhouse ... (bear with me) ... seems like a reasonable thing to bring up given that the guy looks like he's on his way out ... anyway, went to see both (as you do if you're a student and there's a thing going on). the pope appeared at the top of leith walk in his popemobile, waved at the amassed faithful, then went into st thingie's cathedral to do his stuff ... we went home ... SOME DAYS LATER ... despite having lived through the whole punk/new wave years as an impressionable adolescent, it almost felt like, well, you *had* to go and see the rolling stones if they were in the vicinity, rock dinosaur/boring old fart status notwithstanding ... however a local new wavey band called TV21 managed to get the support slot for the gig (last gig they ever played?) and the last song they did before giving up the stage to the rocknroll aristocracy finished with the refrain "hanging on to days gone by, hanging on to days ... gone by..." ... which both the catholic church, organized religion in general in fact, and the sixties glitterati have managed to do quite handsomely and lucratively ... good band TV21
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