Fools Must Die - The Pretenders

One of the most fascinating characters in Shakespeare is King Lear's Fool. Far from being the Court Jester, a King's Fool might well be the talented younger son of a nobleman, highly educated, politically astute, but also worthy to be entrusted not only as confidant and adviser with a dash of depressive Alastair Campbell, but as carer, a man who would love and protect his master til death .

In this greatest of plays, The Fool is the character who tells and knows the truth; who lives, from the start, with the knowledge that his life is tragic and that Fools Must Die before the world can be put to rights, a casualty of the big wheel which rolls down the hill.

May Musical Challenge
All the Colours - Finn Brothers
All My Love - Led Zeppelin
Macarthur Park - Jimmy Webb
Quiet Times - Dido
Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble
Fools Must Die - Pretenders
One Word Would Be Amazing - Ryan Quigley
Super Freak - Rick James
Megalopolis - Chris Potter
And When I Die - Blood Sweat and Tears
God in the Numbers - Richard Ashcroft
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
Strange Meadow Lark - Dave Brubeck Quartet
Cry Me A River - Diana Krall
Love Gets Me every Time - Shania Twain
Haunted Heart - Bill Evans
The Nearness of You - Michael Brecker
The Calling - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Picky Bugger - Elbow
from Finlandia - Sibelius
Borderline - Joni Mitchell
Birdland - Weather Report
Crook Sludge - Paul Towndrow
I Digress - Graeme Scott
Mio Padre - Andrea Bocelli
I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl - Nina Simone
Nocturne - Kate Bush
The Tall Tear Trees - Jan Garbarek
Primavera Porteno - Astor Piazolla
Indefinitely - Travis
Where Did I Go? - Justin Currie

At the top left here is Sir Ian McKellen as Lear, second from left is David Hayman in the lead.