FLASHBACK: "Nothing like the (secret) sun"
From Red Dirt Report 's Dust Devil Dreams essay from December 21 2017. It was 40 years ago today - March 1, 1983, that Arthur Koestler - who wrote 1972's The Roots of Coincidence , which inspired The Police singer/songwriter/bassist Gordon "Sting" Sumner during the recording of Ghost in the Machine (1981) and Synchronicity (1983). In fact, Koestler's death (a suicide triggered by both Parkinson's disease and terminal leukemia) was exactly 3 months to the day prior to the release of Synchronicity . I sense that March 1, 1983 is the date I have chosen for when the cultural decade of the "Eighties" kicked off. Nothing like the (secret) sun Andrew W. Griffin / Red Dirt Report The framed "Synchronicity" poster at the RDR office, along with info about synchronicity writer Arthur Koestler. ANDREW W. GRIFFIN | DECEMBER 21, 2017 CATEGORY: DUST DEVIL DREAMS OKLAHOMA CITY -- So, the white rabbit trail of syncs and shocks that Christopher Know...