Peter Gabriel’s version of Waterloo Sunset (Oxford London Temple Version)

While this song has been called the “Anthem of London”, hearing this version for the first time within these past months, I think of it as an “Anthem of New York City” substituting the Hudson River for the “Dirty Old River…” the Thames, and the World Trade Center Station for London’s Waterloo. “Terry and Julie” are metaphors for the friends I’d lost on that day, and I find solace in the lyric, “As long as they gaze at Waterloo Sunset, They are in paradise…”

JACQUELYN