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Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight
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£29.99
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Original price
£30.99
Original price
£30.99
£29.99
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£30.99
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£30.99
Track Listing / Description
01 I Was Always Dreaming
02 Towards The Dawn
03 The Fun Of It
04 The South Atlantic
05 Electra
06 Arabian Flight
07 Monsoons
08 A Different Kind Of Love
09 Howland
The Last Flight is our version of the story of Amelia Earhart's final, ill-fated journey in 1937. Having successfully navigated over 20,000 miles and 5 continents on her round-the-world trip, her aircraft, the Electra, vanished without trace near Howland Island. Her whereabouts, and those of her navigator, Fred Noonan, remain a lingering mystery to this day.
Rather than focus exclusively on the flight itself, the record is as much an examination of Earhart's remarkable character. She was an extremely rare blend of grace, composure, technical aptitude and a fortitude that the rest of us mere mortals can barely dream of, all enveloped by the soul of a poet. She was possessed of a seemingly unquenchable thirst for life - in her words, 'to find beauty in living... to know the answer to why I'm alive... and feel its excitement every moment'. That thirst for the abundance of life, the sheer joy and privilege of living, long outlasts her disappearance and death. It should serve as an inspiration, almost an instruction, to the rest of us; this record is our attempt to translate that inspiration into music.