8

Another year has flown by and this blog is now 8 years old! This of course means we must also wish Candi Staton a “happy birthday” today. 

I have seen a couple of different years stated as her year of birth* but if we accept the generally quoted one then Candi is now 71. Borrowing loosely from numerology if you add up the two digits of her age you get 8 and so it is I realise this is now the second year of a decade where Candi’s age and the age of this blog  - which was deliberately launched on her birthday – are so aligned.  I realise this is of no consequence whatsoever, but being a massive fan of Ms Staton you can perhaps understand I draw some enjoyment from this worthless fact.

I certainly hope that Candi will still be with us when she reaches 79 (and I hope I am still knocking around then too!), but I wonder, will this blog still be alive another 8 years hence? It would be nice to think so but I somehow think it will be a miracle if my publishing enthusiasm endures for that long, and also if people like you will still be interested in reading something so quaint as a blog!   

We shall see. 

A big thank you to all of you who continue to drop by.

Here is a track from the 1974 album simply entitled "Candi". This was the first, and for many years only, Candi Staton album I owned.

(Unfortunately I continue to shy away from giving you anything other than a Youtube clip of a Candi track nowadays after a takedown request a couple of years ago.)     

*I have just noticed that her Wiki entry now states 1940 but I think it used to say 1943 which is the year I have always had in my head)