David Heavenor
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David Heavenor (born 17 April 1952) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, born in Kingston, Jamaica, who has produced three albums: Private: The Night Visitors (1993, with Simon Jaquet); Winter’s Children (2001, Sticky Music, Produced by Steve Butler); and The Automatic Eye (2006, Produced by David Scott).
The songs cover the well plumbed depths of lost love but also range through more unusual material like a song about South African political activist Joe Slovo (Private) and Second World War pilots Oxford Street in the Blackout (The Automatic Eye) seemingly partly inspired by the novel That Summer by Scottish writer Andrew Greig. His song I’m Watching Rosanna (Winter’s Children) is a lyrical treatment about a girl caught up in a Christian cult in Ireland. My Heart Beats Like a Dream (Winter’s Children) is a rage against the ‘juggernaut’ which ‘wheels out’ the mindless and hateful creeds which is especially pertinent in today’s world. An interesting connection here is that Deacon Blue songwriter Ricky Ross used this line in his own song The Undeveloped Heart (New Recording (1997) and Ooh Las Vegas (Deacon Blue (1990)) giving ‘My friend David’ a name check and perhaps stems from the days when they knew each other in the seventies playing in various long lost local bands. The City of Edinburgh takes a central role in the setting for many of the songs most notably in the song Change Me Like Snow (Winter’s Children) which is an homage to friends who stuck by the writer in a troubled time.
