A tender and powerful song about the innocence of childhood and the loss of a parent. The production stands up so well, with layers of strings over a rock band supporting the expression of her amazing voice.
In the 1970s and 1980s she produced a string of brilliant albums, with songs steeped in love, sexuality, nostalgia, childhood, experience, regret and growing older.
I was 9 at the time; excited; it was very cloudy however. Remember running down the snow-covered lake (Fall River, for the intensely curious) at the time of the eclipse. Love the song, anyway! 😜