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Song a Day Meme: Day 20
Apr. 25th, 2011 08:43 amHe was one of many artists introduced to me by the GALA adviser in 1989-1993 SUNY Oswego. Incredibly enough, by the time I met him, he had been living with AIDS for then-unheard-of ten years, and this without AZT treatments. I met him in his capacity as one of the founding members of The Flirtations. He was not one of the Flirts I skipped stones with, however; at the time he was not feeling well enough to take the hike required to get to lakefront.
Michael Callen's "Living in Wartime" is on his first album, Purple Heart, which is currently out-of-print. As far as I can tell, it does not show up on his partially-posthumous Legacy album. It can be found, however, on the still-in-print second Flirtations album, The Flirtations Live: Out on the Road. The song, written in the '80s when the US was not involved in N wars, is about the AIDS epidemic in a time when it was largely thought to be a "gay disease".
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Michael Callen's "Living in Wartime" is on his first album, Purple Heart, which is currently out-of-print. As far as I can tell, it does not show up on his partially-posthumous Legacy album. It can be found, however, on the still-in-print second Flirtations album, The Flirtations Live: Out on the Road. The song, written in the '80s when the US was not involved in N wars, is about the AIDS epidemic in a time when it was largely thought to be a "gay disease".
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