Jethro Tull – For Michael Collins Jeffrey and Me
A evening pause: This song seems fitting on this, the anniversary of the day Neil Armstrong took the first human step on the Moon. The song however honors Mike Collins, who remained in orbit on Columbia, never to touch the surface of the Moon itself.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
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The Rentals
“Forgotten Astronaut”
A Song For Michael Collins (2020)
https://youtu.be/GkfKujfyUlY
4:43
“They got names like Superheroes, bigger than The Beatles or I could ever be,
They got all the great one-liners, written in the schoolbooks for all eternity.
And now I’ve all but been forgotten, Forgotten Astronaut has been lost to history, yeah.”
Folk Alley Sessions: John Craigie (July 2017)
“Michael Collins”
https://youtu.be/MaJ8zUkrFN0
(2:54)
“Sometimes you take the fame, sometimes you sit backstage.
But if it weren’t for me them boys would still be there…”