Messages in music

By Cheryl Springer

It would have been one morning in last week as I was preparing for work, that I heard Tony Ricardo’s song ‘Margie’ playing again on local radio. The ballad tells the story of a man who kills his wife after he finds her in a bar with another man and realises that not only does she have a lover, but also that she is neglecting their baby. Ricardo sings:

…The woman was my wife… Margie, whose watching the baby… Why do you have to tear apart your family … I was filled with rage and I struck out blind… and again, I’m doing time on a murder charge, a victim of jealousy…