John Cale: When Past and Future Collide Paris 1919 (2012)

"When the past and future collide - Paris 1919" (1973) performed by John Cale, his band and the Malmö Opera Orchestra. "Paris 1919" takes its musical influences from pop and rock artists such as Brian Wilson, the Bee Gees, and Procol Harum. Lyrically, Cale recalls possible childhood memories in "Child's Christmas in Wales", whose title is a reference to a prose poem by Dylan Thomas and a reference to Thomas' poem "The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait" in its second verse. Cale makes cultural and literary references to writer Graham Greene, William Shakespeare's Macbeth (1623), Enoch Powell, Chipping Sodbury, Andalucia, Dunkirk, and Segovia, while "Antarctica Starts Here" is inspired by the 1950 Billy Wilder film "Sunset Boulevard" starring Gloria Swanson. John Cale has performed "Paris 1919" live in its entirety throughout the world, beginning in Cardiff on 21 November 2009, with his regular band and a 19-piece orchestra, with new orchestral arrangements by Cale and composer Randall Woolf. The show was staged again in 2010 in London, Norwich, Paris, Brescia, Los Angeles, and Melbourne, then in 2011 in Barcelona, Essen, and Malmö, as well as two shows in New York City in January 2013.