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July 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

In Praise of ‘Walking On The Chinese Wall’

I am in love with the song Walking On The Chinese Wall by Philip Bailey. It’s a multiple whammy of guilty pleasure moments and I do not care. It has been my call-to-home for weeks now, months even. Something happened when I heard it for the first time in a while several months back. Olfactory […]

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November 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Philip Bailey’s Requiem

The trade-off has always been that I value my soul. Told the in-laws, just the other day, about a guy that wrote a most-dreadful book about walking the Chinese Wall – good on him for doing the work but his book was shit. I told the editor of the magazine to find anyone else to […]

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July 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 273 

Philip Bailey & Phil Collins, Easy Lover [Single] (1985) Somewhere in my record collection I have a copy of Philip Bailey’s “Chinese Wall” album, as produced by Phil Collins. Why wouldn’t I have this? Philip Bailey was part of Earth, Wind & Fire. And Phil Collins was part of Genesis. Both were great in the bands and on their own and then […]