"Pilot of the Airwaves," Charlie Dore (1980)

A lost song about a lost cure for loneliness

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I get a sharp ache when I listen to Charlie Dore’s “Pilot of the Airwaves.” Not because the song is about loneliness — thought it is — but because it’s about a cure for loneliness that’s almost obsolete.

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