In 1974 George Harrison released an album called 'Dark Horse'. Harrison's compositions get overlooked because of the attention paid to the Lennon-McCartney songbook. I've never been a fan of McCartney but John Lennon has always been a hero; he was rough, he tore the edges off things and he told it truthfully as he saw it (not as he politically wanted it to be).A couple of years ago I bought the DVD of 'A Concert for George', the concert organised and directed by Eric Clapton exactly one year after George died. It is the best DVD of a music concert I've ever heard; poignant, evocative, sensational. When you see a band of seven or eight guitarists, two or three pianists and four or five drummers, one of whom is Ringo Starr you get into the swing of things (if you think Ringo's a bozo listen to the rhythms; they're amazing and The Beatles wouldn't have been half the band without them). Jeff Lynne, Paul McCartney, Joe Brown, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, Jools Holland, Sam Browne, Jim Capaldi, Gary Brooker, Andy Fairweather Lowe, Jim Keltner ... it just goes on and on; the cast list is like a Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Buy the DVD.
What's this got to do with swimming and what's it got to do with the picture of Moss? he's identified by Swimming World magazine as a 'Dark Horse Medal Contender' in their April issue.
They got the last two words right.
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