It’s really sad to hear that Glen Campbell has died at the age of 81, his final years ever increasingly affected by Alzheimer’s. As soon as I heard the news I remembered this clip below and the blog post I wrote back in 2011. I was hosting a late night talk radio show and I’d…
Tag: Bagpipes
Amazing Grace – The Final Redemptive Song Of The Bali 9 Ringleaders
The pastor and the painter, Bali Nine ringleaders Chan and Sukumaran. Several times over the past few days I had listeners challenge me as to why I don’t believe in the death penalty. I fumbled my way more than I wished through explaining the lack of any evidence that the death penalty acts as a…
The Greatest Bagpipe Songs Of All Time – Who Knew Glen Campbell Could Play The Bagpipes?
Glen Campbell. With the killjoy minor tragedy of no bagpipes allowed into Rugby World Cup games, we had a rip-roaring discussion on Newstalk ZB that spanned not one, but two mornings, on the finest bagpipe songs of all time. This was much to the screwed-up face scorn of Mike Hosking’s producer Glenn who is “suspicious of…
