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Just a normal, lovely day in the park.
Source: nedhepburn
A Change Is Gonna Come” came to Cooke in a dream. It’s the only song that ever did, and it frightened him. He knew he risked alienating his audience but he also knew it was the greatest thing he’d ever written. He would spend nearly a month perfecting it before finally recording it on January 30, 1964.