At 05:39 PM 4/21/96 -0400, Bill D wrote:
>And "Red Barchetta" is based on a piece that appeared in Road and Track
>magazine some years back, "A Nice Morning's Drive," by Richard S. Foster,
>which is about an Auto Outlaw who takes his red '71 MGB out for a spin.
That part I didn't know. The liner notes only mention the title and author,
nothing about where it appeared. Fascinating. Great tune, nicely poetic
lyrics. Peart was an English major, wasn't he? It shows.
>p.s. 'Barchetta'=='small boat' in Italian
Yep. Barchetta was the nickname of some model Ferrari.
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