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Hi Bill
Loved the way you added the funny bits.
Pete

Down here in NZ my prayers are for you all to keep safe up there in the USA.

TF I love that cover of Thunderstruck. On the show  A Prairie Home Companion I love a segiment that Chris Thile does every month honouring musician birthdays with short interpretation of thier songs. Here is one below from a few months back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjHiaUX5R-o

The Peatle part of my name is what some of my family call me. The Jville part is what people call Johnsonville the town I live in though nowdays it just a suburb of the city down the road.

Bald G D that is an excellent video it gave me a good laugh. Put my head in the right space to face up to the pain of my phsyio work out this afternoon. Have you any others to share ????

I don't know the answer to your question Bill here is a bit of Kiwi working hours history. While New Zealand was  the first country in the world to adopt the eight-hour day, the custom was confined to tradesmen and labourers and lacked legislative sanction. From 1882 onwards, efforts were made to legalise the eight-hour day. Bills were submitted to Parliament and annual demonstrations were held in the main centres. Labour Day, which commemorates the introduction of the eight-hour day, became a public holiday in 1899 (the original date, the second Wednesday in October, was changed in 1910 to the fourth Monday of that month) but the many Eight-hour Bills which were submitted in the 1880s and 1890s failed to gain parliamentary approval. Other enactments, however, have made the eight-hour day all but universal in New Zealand At a meeting in Wellington, Marianne Tasker and supporters established a domestic workers’ union, hoping to use the Liberal government’s Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act to force employers to improve pay and conditions. Central to their demands was a 68-hour working week.
From the late 1880s to the 1930s, domestic service was the single largest form of paid employment for women. The ‘domestics’ who worked in more than 15,000 New Zealand homes often endured harsh working conditions: a 16-hour day, 6½ days a week, for low wages. I am not sure what the hours of work people were made to do but it is more less considerd that 40 hours a week is a standard most aim for today.

Hi  Bill my Choice Brotha
Labour Day here in New Zealand commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. New Zealand workers were among the first in the world to claim this right when, in 1840, the carpenter Samuel Parnell won an eight-hour day in Wellington. Labour Day was first celebrated in New Zealand on 28 October 1890,. Labour day always falls on a Monday here and  this  year it is  October 23rd.  Sorry I took down the Ukulele song as on listening to it  I realised they wasn't that good.
Aroha  pronounced  arrow- ha  is the New Zealand for love.
Aroha  to you and Dondra.

Kev your voice and guitar work well together. The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.  I like the way the song taps into that. Man my prayers are for you  to find a job. I  will attach a  song I wrote a while back about having faith. 
  https://soundcloud.com/eatleville/you

TF that is a great cover.   A Pink Floyd's cover  which I like of " Wish You Were Here' is done in a way I have never heard before is by Young At Heart.  They have built a new presentation around it which I find very clever and moving.The mission of the Young@Heart Chorus is to present a unique and positive image of aging through the creation of originally staged musical and theater performances that incorporate songs not commonly sung by older Americans. Young@Heart provides a not-for-profit musical outlet for the elderly of Western Massachusetts in the form of vocal concerts and/or stage presentations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLMcyB_BMXE

All of us wounded Chordies  have  three things in common a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone that can't be broken.
Jandle I wish you a speedy recovery.

Phill what your going through is an echo of what is happening to me. Back in  early March this year I was struggling with pain but thought it would go away.Over a  period of weeks it got worse.  I had to take time of work and I could no longer play guitar or piano like I use too. The scans they did on both my shoulders revealed torn tendons and burstitis, . My day was now filled with pain killers to keep me going and visits to the Physio and hospital. Adhesive capsulitis is the name they  have given what I have got and I became dependant on my Maree to dress me and cut up my food so I could eat. I am now able to dress myself and use a knife fork sort of. Pain is still a problem pills every four hours help.Where I couldnt sleep I now manage to get some more sleep. Not been able to drive has not been a problem for me as I love walking to keep fit. Now I am in my 60/s I  have to learn that I am no longer a teenager.
Hope you heal quickly.
TIG I hope you heal quickly also. We now can form a Band called The Painful Trio.
Zurf here in New Zealand our taxes pay for our public  hospitals.  Though it is quicker if you have insurance then you get to go to Hospitals run as private businesses.
TF In the battlefield of life we are always dodging bullets with time eventually one will hit you.  That is a saying I hear  my family say.  My 96 year old mother tells me no matter how good your life is we are all living in enemy- occupied territory and there are bound to be some injuries.

TIG and TF glad  you enjoyed Elton John interview.  Rowan Atkinson interviewed  Elton John at Hysteria 3 (1991) as part of a  variety show put on by a group of famous entertainers to raise money for the Terrance Higgans Trust.   Established in 1982, Terrence Higgins Trust  was the first charity in the UK to be set up in response to HIV and AIDS.
Zurf I look forward to your Links when you put them up,. Thank you for the feed back.