Love goes on anyway

My Grant McLennan obit. A few challenges. It was difficult to avoid sentimentality, and I wanted to describe for the uninitiated what McLennan's music sounded like.

Robert Forster on the Go-Betweens' official message board:

Today I went to the website and read some of the magnificent tributes that have flown in for Grant. People for some days have been telling me of the beautiful things written there. And today I felt well enough and strong enough to go in and read. I thank you all. In time I shall read every one of them. I see familiar names scattered from our past. The vast majority I don't know. All of you Grant and I have met through our music. Your words and thoughts I find very, very moving. I sense the love and understanding for Grant and his music, and I take the support you send to me to my heart.

These last days I have Grant in my head. He talks to me in odd moments. I hear him... and I always will.