Julie Driscoll
Julie Tippetts (born Julie Driscoll, 8 June 1947) is an English singer and actress, known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger and The Trinity. Along with The Trinity, she was featured prominently in the 1969 television special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, singing "I'm a Believer" in a soul style with Micky Dolenz. She and Auger had previously worked in Steampacket, with Long John Baldry and Rod Stewart.
"This Wheel's on Fire" reached number five in the United Kingdom in June 1968. With distortion, the imagery of the title and the group's dress and performance, this version came to represent the psychedelic era in British rock music. Driscoll recorded the song again in the early 1990s with Adrian Edmondson as the theme to the BBC comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, the main characters of which are throwbacks to that era.
Since the 1970s, Driscoll has concentrated on experimental vocal music. She married jazz musician Keith Tippett and collaborated with him and now uses the name Julie Tippetts, adopting the original spelling of her husband's surname. She took in Keith Tippett's big band Centipede and in 1974 sang in Robert Wyatt's Theatre Royal Drury Lane concert. She released a solo album, Sunset Glow in 1975; and was lead vocalist on Carla Bley's album Tropic Appetites and also in John Wolf Brennan's "HeXtet".
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Walk Down
by: Julie DriscollIf we want to be free, we must find our direction
And stay on the path that leads to our goal
Hold our heads high as we by-pass th old road
And stick to the truth that we’ve found in our soul
We’ll walk down our road and we’ll lift up the wounded
And nurse them to life with their heads on our breast
And those that were brave, but who didn’t survive
We’ll remember them knowing they died for the rest.
And we’ll open our mouths, and we’ll sing them a song
And we’ll hope that they hear us, and know they belong
Chorus: Walk down the road we find
And all that follow will be free
And while we’re searching for tomorrow
Smile on all the love we see
We’ll feel the love pour from the hearts of the people
And know that it’s true cause we won’t know of lies.
We’ll have no need of dope, nothing left to escape from
Turned on by life is the best kind of “high”
We’ll drink from streams of cool clear water
That won’t stain our lips with the blood of the dead
We won´t see it dripping red through our fingers
In pools on the ground where the bodies have bled.
And we’ll open the door and our hearts will be warm
And things will look good when our new day is born
Chorus: Walk down, etc
So we’ll shout out the truth and we’ll show how we feel
And just turn away from the dirt in our eye
Cause the young is the new, and the old is the withered
And those that last longest will win by and by
We’ll never look back once we reach where we’re going
And our road will take us where we want to be
Soon there’ll be happiness glowing around us
And all men will love and our children be free
And we’ll open our hearts and the sun will shine in
And things will look fine when our new world begins
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