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From a 1986 edition of TVS's regional arts programme 'Putting on the South', Ian Partridge and Richard Burnett perform a song from a forthcoming concert at the Reading Festival.

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar,
Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway, far,
Before you agonise them in farewell?
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar,
Where are you now? Where are you now?

Pale hands, pink tipped, like Lotus buds that float
Round those cool waters where we used to dwell
I would have rather felt you round my throat,
Crushing out life, than waving me farewell!
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar,
Where are you now? Where lies your spell?

(off-air VHS recording)