Living on an Island - Paradise Beach

Living On An Island
STATUS QUO ( Parfitt / Young )

Easy when you're number one
Everybody say you're having fun
Smiling for the public eye
When your body say you wanna die
Living on an island
Looking at another line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high

Hugh he got a real nice place
Cruxie gonna be there soon
And I just want to see his face
I'm getting lonely in my empty room
Living on an island
Working at another line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high

Passing time away in blue skies
Thinking of the smile in her eyes
Easy, it's easy

Living on an island
Oh boy, we're having fun
Living on an island
Thinking 'bout the things I've done
Living on an island
Searching for an other line
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high
Waiting for my friend to come
And we'll get high
I said we're gonna get high
Yeah, we're gonna get high
We're gonna touch the sky
sky...sky...sky...sky...sky...sky...

KAVALA
METZOVO
METEORA
METEORA
THASSOS
CORFU
FLY WITH ME

THASSOS - Livadi Beach

THASSOS - On an Island

moving aimlessly in the earth's oceans errant 
on its search for rest, the wave moves towards homeland. 
The eternity heavy on its back, it thirsts for calm. 
Bringed by the sweet smell of Greece it moves into the Aegaeis. 

 it dives into the sea of love, the sea of the homeland, 
the sea so blue and clear, but yet so deep, magic and mysterious like no place on earth. 
It devotes to its determination and strides irresistibly towards the coast that calls it with gentle voice into the port of its life. 

alexander

One of the many erotic adventures of Zeus, the greatest god of the ancient Greeks, brought about the “discovery” of Thassos. Long ago, Agenor was king of eastern Phoenicia. He had three sons, Phoenix, Cilix and Cadmus, and one daughter, Europa. One spring day Zeus transformed himself into a bull, kidnapped the buxom Europa and carried her on his back to the Dictaean Cave in Crete. There, in the form of a handsome eagle, Zeus coupled with Europa, and from that sacred union three sons were born: Minos, the famous king of Crete, Rhadamanthys, the wise lawgiver, and Sarpedon, the first king of Lycia. While Europa, hidden in Crete, was enjoying Zeus’s favors, Agenor called his sons and his grandson (or son) Thassos...

He ordered them to look high and low for Europa and not to return unless they found her. Phoenix set out towards the south. Cilix went north until he reached a fertile land where he made himself king: since then it has been known as Cilicia. After wandering through the Greek islands, Cadmus continued his search in mainland Greece. He visited the oracle of Apollo at Delphi and consulted Pythia the priestess. Although he followed her advice, he was unable to find Europa. After passing through Phocis he came to Boeotia, where he built an acropolis, Cadmeia, and below it a town with broad avenues, which he named Thebes. Thassos, Agenor’s grandson or son, searched for Europe in various places until he came to an island off Thrace. Captivated by its marvelous climate and lush vegetation and unable to return without Europa, he gave up his quest. He and his retinue settled on the island, which has borne his name ever since. Herodotus, the greatest historian of antiquity, is categorical on this matter. He says the island is “now called after that Phoenician Thassos”. (Herodotus, Histories, 6.47.1) Because of its clear air and cool summer breezes, the ancient poets gave the island other names, such as Aeria or Heeria. This name was also mentioned in the Delphic oracle received by the leader of the Parian colonists, Telesicles (680 BC): “Don’t tell the Parians, Telesicles, that I have ordered you to build on the isle of Aeria a city that will be visible from all around”. (Byz. 3n Thassos, Metneke Editions). It was also called Aethria, meaning “clear blue sky”, and Chrysia, a reference to the lustrous gleam of the gold (chrysos) once mined there.

Thassos Mythology

July Morning

July Morning/ URIAH Heep/ Lyrics

There I was on a July morning looking for love.
With the strength of a new day dawning and the beautiful sun.
At the sound of the first bird singing I was leaving for home.
With the storm and the night behind me and a road of my own.
With the day
came the resolution
I'll be looking for you.

I was looking for love in the strangest places.
There wasn't a stone that I left unturned.
I must have tried more than a thousand faces,
but not one was aware of the fire that burned
In my heart,
in my mind,
in my soul.
In my heart,
in my mind,
in my soul.

There I was on a July morning - I was looking for love.
With the strength of a new day dawning and the beautiful sun.
At the sound of the first bird singing I was leaving for home.
With the storm and the night behind me and a road of my own.
With the day
came the resolution
I'll be lookïng for you.

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Bernie Shaw - Voice
Mick Box - Guitar
Phil Lanzon - Keyboards
Trevor Bolder - Bass
Lee Kerslake - drums