TOP TEN FREETHNKER SONGS : NUMBER FIVE

In at number five, the half way point of my personal free thinker top ten;
Joan Armatrading-Love and Affection



Although it's a celebration of love and self realisation and acceptance, I always heard the undertone of melancholy in it. When I discovered Ms Armatrading was gay, in an era when being gay, black and female meant physical harm,* I understood why.
She never calls on a god to assist her.

*Which era is that? Every flaming era!