I realise James Taylor is a world-renowned superstar. But he is one of the greats and if someone deserves to live on forever, that someone needs to be talked about, and half of you wont have heard this dude so here you go….I heard “Fire and Rain” for the first time when I caught the end of “Running on Empty” with River Phoenix on BBC2 and this song played, caught my attention and I checked on the subtitles on teletext - it read “James Taylor - Fire and Rain”.  I had never heard of the guy singing but it seemed like he had something to say. I didnt know how old the song was or whatever, I just needed more… which led me to JT and becoming a huge huge James Taylor fan.When I bought my first CD player, later that year,  my first three CDs were James Taylor’s greatest hits, Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys and The Carpenters greatest hits (I already had all my Soundgardens and Zappas and Kings X covered on cassette being an avid kerrang reading metallist).  Anyway James Taylor sung my life to me. When I was going through hard times in the sixth form (my senior year), I used to take off  school and walk out past the town, deep into the Kent countryside with “Country Road” rolling through my head;“Mama dont understand it,wants to know where i’ve been,got to be some kind of natural born foolto want to pass that way again,but you know I could feel it,walking on a country road”I mean for real - that was it right there, I was going to buy everything this guy ever brought out, learn everything I could about him because he had me in his sights, he “got me”, because I could “feel it” . Away from the cities and suburbs and our neatly paved over civilisation you could get out with nature and feel it, feel something real and living, feel the presence of God,  feel freedom to walk towards the hills and keep walking until you wanted to stop, no restrictions, I could feel the future in front of me and anything ...