Altstadt (the old town) in Bamberg, via Wikipedia.
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Thirty-Two: Vienna’s “Old Whisky Malt Waltz,” a precursor of beer revolutions to come.
Keyboardist Robert Lamm of the venerable pop-rock band Chicago generally is regarded as one of his generation’s finer pop-rock songwriters, which utterly fails to explain his choice of words in the chorus of “Forever” (1986).
Forever
is a long, long time.
Longer than we ever realize.
Forever
is a long, long time.
I’m gonna love you the rest of my life.
Forever.
Trite much?
Earth to Robert: Of course forever is a long time—got anything else?
On the bright side, this song’s horn arrangement, which is positioned as an instrumental bridge, actually is an improvement on Chicago’s usual 1980s synth-driven standards (please don’t ask me how I know all this), and if I’m to be charitable, perhaps ...
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