The Life of a Song: ‘Song to the Siren’

“To the ancient Greeks, they were hybrid creatures, part bird, part woman, who lured sailors to their death with the spell of their music. In 1967, singer and songwriter Tim Buckley and poet and lyricist Larry Beckett paid tribute to those deathly seducers with ‘Song to the Siren,’ a haunting ode to doomed love whose story is the stuff of pop legend.” David Cheal Financial Times APRIL 22 2016

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