One of our own is gone

[MacArtist]

On January 20, 2007; there was a thread on Kate Bush "Wuthering Heights". I suggested to roshi to check out the song "Don't Give Up". It was a duet with Kate and Peter Gabriel.

Evidently, Minty was a Peter Gabriel fan.

I got a Minty Gram. He was wondering what album that song was on.

I sent him the info and included the background on the song...

Song Facts:
> Peter had some kind of nervous breakdown in 1985.
> This song is to reward the support he got from his
> family. This album is quite appealing of Peter's
> state of mind : it's a mixture of excessive
> enthusiast songs ("Big Time," "Sledgehammer...")
> and depressive ones ("Don't Give Up," "Mercy
> Street ...") (thanks, Thibaut - Brussels,
> Belgium)
> Gabriel was inspired to write this after seeing a
> TV show about unemployment and family life, and a
> photo of a family in the dust bowl depression.
> Gabriel: "The basic idea is that handling failure
> is one of the hardest things we have to learn to
> do."

I had been through some tough times and I had the support of some very good friends to get through those rough times.

I don't know; maybe I was hoping Minty would find comfort and strength in the song.

Typical Minty...he started worrying about how he was going to get the song into his computer. He thought he had it on vinyl somewhere.

I emailed him the song and explained how to drag and drop it into his iTunes library.

He appreciated it so much.

I knew no matter what; he had a heart of gold.

He will be missed.