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BLUES FOR JOYCE VINCENT Life-Death Unnoticed (A)
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SEE SHOCKING SONG STORY: Blues song of a puzzling, unnoticed life & death. In 2003, no one noticed when Joyce Carol Vincent, 38,(Studio Photo) died on a sofa in her flat over a North London shopping mall. She was found 3 years later!
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Genre
Jazz • Swing
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Peak #2
Peak in subgenre #2
Author
Robert Morrissey and Vesna Zafirovic
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(c) 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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February 23, 2014
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MP3 11.2 MB • 320 kbps • 4:54
Story behind the song
The story behind the song is not for the faint of heart. The essence of what happened to Joyce Carol Vincent has already been summarized in the song's description. And the grim "details" of her unnoticed death are well established in the newspaper and film documentary cited later on in this expanded song information. An example of the many Internet Blogs and other news comments on Joyce's death is the following by "WORDSBODY" in a Sunday, October 9, 2011 Blog: "Nothing I've read recently has moved me more than this story of a woman who died in her bedsit in London, undiscovered for three years. The window remained open, plates sat in the sink, mail piled up at the door, Christmas presents unopened and the TV on - while she faded into skeletal remains on the sofa." Follow this link for the rest of this especially good commentary; and the several strong reactions of readers in remarks on the shocking and very sad death of Joyce Vincent: http://wordsbody.blogspot.com/2011/10/joyce-carol-vincent-life-in-fragments.html JBBQ has respectfully created two song tributes for Joyce Vincent: this A-side "Blues" rendition and another new B-side "Bluz'Elegy" version. We feel that the LIFE AND DEATH OF JOYCE VINCENT remain highly significant in our collective worldwide understandings of everyone's social interactions in several important issues/problems; they range from socio-economic isolation to abuse to racial intolerance to other related life/death altering personal, societal, historic, and contemporary major concerns. Thus, for those of a mind and heart, we suggest that we should (re)examine some basic questions dramatically raised by the unnoticed life and death of Joyce: Questions remain ...why had NO ONE - NOT ONE PERSON - ever adequately followed up on why Joyce Vincent was "gone" "missing" "whatever"??? And, there are related haunting questions of the nature of OUR modern life and the "invisible", "anonymous", often "unsocial" "disconnected" lives of countless persons in every major city in the world (not just in London or New York City or Paris or or or...and even in the country or other rural places). And, of course there were also questions/concerns on why Joyce moved almost once a year; had spent times in a shelter for domestic violence; never made long term commitments to any man or woman; friends said she may have had a sexually abusive childhood from her father (who died in 2004); and was said to have also been neglected by her father (her mother died when Joyce was 11 - and her four older sisters essentially raised her); and Joyce could have chosen to become "hidden" from her then remaining three older sisters, very few close friends, and life itself in the end... It is noted that her family did hire a private investigator in an attempt to find Joyce prior to her death; and they also contacted the Salvation Army trying to locate her. When she was not found, her family assumed she had deliberately broken ties with them. Why searches never found Joyce have never been explained; a sad question in an age where it has become almost impossible to become "invisible" or "private" from eyes/hears which may wish to know about every aspect of our lives... Another major and obvious question should be raised and answered in this story behind the song. Could some addictive problem(s) been at the root of life and death experiences of Joyce Vincent? And the answer is NO...SHE DID NOT HAVE HABITS OF DRINKING ALCOHOL, TAKING OTHER DRUGS, AND SMOKING. Further, Joyce was not mentally ill and normally depressive. She was known as a neat and attractive dresser; and, until the last two years of her life, Joyce Vincent was employed in an executive position with a multinational professional services/financial firm headquartered in London. IT IS ALSO NOTEWORTHY THAT JOYCE WAS AN ASPIRING WANNABE POP SINGER. She had associations with several prominent and established popular si
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spinaceto
Mar 07, 2014
Story shocked me really... and let me reflect about! As always outstanding arrangement and music composition, trumpet so good sounding and performing ( sad timbre). I think this track will remain in my mind because of the message in it!! -Spin-