Summer and a Rare Spirit.

I’ve added Mary Black’s rendition of Noel Brazil’s Summer Sent You to my playlist. It’s long been one of my favourite songs, but I had to pick up a live version from YouTube and it isn’t a patch on the recorded version.

You know how we’re prone to having an ‘our song’ with people we get especially close to? This one belongs to Judy, my late manager and special friend from the theatre. Judy managed to be everybody’s friend – naturally, easily, unselfconsciously. Judy was a rare and beautiful spirit with whom I re-engaged in July 1993 – hence the song. She died in June 2000, so I suppose you could say that what summer sent, summer also took away.