Name: The Age Of Miracles (with Michael Crow)
Duration: 5 min 5 s
Channel: Michael Crow/Nick Snaden
Description: "The Age Of Miracles (with Michael Crow)" is a song by Nick Snaden. Classic rock song sung by Michael Crow with a long fade-out, a la 'Hey Jude'. I wrote the music for this when I was 12 after seeing 'Hey Jude' on TV, and thirty years later Michael came up with a lyric that finally did it justice. Thanks, Michael.

The Age Of Miracles (with Michael Crow)

Nick Snaden

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Classic rock song sung by Michael Crow with a long fade-out, a la 'Hey Jude'. I wrote the music for this when I was 12 after seeing 'Hey Jude' on TV, and thirty years later Michael came up with a lyric that finally did it justice. Thanks, Michael.

spiritual

Nick Snaden

Singer-songwriter, musician, producer and engineer.

Hi, I've been writing songs since I was twelve years old, and recording them since 1985. Roger Cook (of the Cook-Greenaway-Cook songwriting partnership and Blue Mink, etc) once wrote that I have the ability to write a hit single and that he was waiting for one from me. He also said I need to 'lighten up a bit', unquote. F*ck that!

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Classic Rock

Charts

Peak #123

Peak in subgenre #13

Author

Michael Crow/Nick Snaden

Rights

Nick Snaden & Michael Crow 1998

Uploaded

March 31, 2010

Track Files

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MP3 11.6 MB • 320 kbps • 5:05

Story behind the song

I wrote the music to this song in 1968 when I was twelve years old, after watching The Beatles perform 'Hey Jude' on the David Frost show in the UK. Decades later, I got a Roland XP50 keyboard and sequenced the backing, but I had no lyric. Then Michael Crow called round for a coffee; he said he loved the music and could a write a good lyric for it. After an unsatisfactory experience with an earlier song, I said, 'Fine, but I want no overt religious references. Write something spiritual, but make it something even an atheist couldn't disagree with.' 
A week later he returned and I said I only wanted one amendment. Michael looked worried and asked what it was, and I replied that the problem was with the chorus: 'It should be 'a LOVING miracle', and not 'a LOVELY miracle' because it was too twee for my liking. He looked relieved and I thought it was all going to go smoothly. 
I was dead wrong. We nearly came to blows over the sessions and I vowed never to work with him again, and I didn't. We're friends again now, but I believe he's back in his native California. I think I'd like to work with him, especially if we can come up with something like this again...

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