![]() ![]() 40% of people with Bipolar Disorder attempt suicide. Bipolar Disorder – often characterized as emotionally swinging between depression and mania.Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – including a high need for orderliness or symmetry, fears that you may set your house on fire, fears of infection or contamination, perfectionism….Post-traumatic Stress Disorder – relating to trauma from rape, child abuse, living in an area of armed conflict or combat neurosis from battle fatigue, and other factors.High anxiety – including Panic Disorder (panic attacks, palpitations, shortness of breath, numbness), Generalized Anxiety Disorder (excessive worry, restlessness, trouble sleeping, irritability, sweating, trembling – in relation to thoughts about work, health, death, family or relationship issues…), Specific phobias related to dogs, spiders, water, heights, confined spaces, the dark….Schizophrenia – including delusions, hallucinations (including hearing voices), disorganized thinking, episodes of psychosis, and social withdrawal and apathy.Borderline personality disorder – where the partner has a distorted sense of self, unusually strong emotional reactions to situations and social interactions with others in their daily routines and activities, detachment from reality and fears of abandonment and bouts of emptiness.Dissociative Identity Disorder – where the partner maintains two or more distinct and relatively enduring personality states.What could drive a partner “around the bend” and make them leave the relationship? A website about mental health as potential deal-breakers in a marriage lists: Perhaps, he’s still living with the ghosts of the break-up, and processing his crazy-making part in driving her around the bend. In the opening line we are told “Sandra doesn’t live here anymore.” Of course, the ex-partner should have remembered, since she left him. ![]() And the partner she left reveals he’s also spent time “there” too. Well, I’ve been there too, and I’m okay.” Given the context, “there” seems to refer to the facility that she’s about to be released from. The “they” in this case would be the psychiatric professionals. In the song, we learn “I’m sure they will release you today.” This could be either a fact or wishful thinking on the ex-lovers’ part. His crazy-making behavior caused her to leave him, and pack “her bags and in a yellow cab.” After Sandra left the relationship, things deteriorated and she was admitted to some mental health facility. The subject of the song, “Sandra”, is someone who went crazy, after being driven “around the bend,” by her romantic partner. Swain, credited with only writing “Sandra”. “Sandra” is a song written by Tad Campbell, together with an obscure songwriter K. In late 1986 the band released their second album, Love’s Imperfection. It included the debut single “Sandra”, which had been released in the fall. Campbell remembers that on May 2, 1986, Idle Eyes performed “for British royalty at the opening ceremonies of Expo ’86 in Vancouver.” After 1985 John Webster left the band and was replaced by Bruce MacKenzie.Īt the 1986 West Coast Music Awards Idle Eyes won in the following categories: Group of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year (for “Tokyo Rose”), and Tad Campbell won for Songwriter of the Year. ![]() Before the year was through Idle Eyes won a Juno Award for Most Promising Band. Later they opened for Bryan Adams on tour, and also Red Rider. Their first single release was in 1985 titled “ Tokyo Rose“.Īs “Tokyo Rose” was climbing the charts, in 1985 Idle Eyes opened for Toto and later Tears For Fears. John Webster, from Red Rider, joined the band on keyboards. Eventually, Donna McConville returned to Australia and became a backing singer for John Farnham.īy late 1982 the band lineup began to gel with British Columbia natives Phil Robertson on drums, Miles Fox Hill on bass guitar and Glenn R. ![]() Tad Campbell recalls that “their first tour was cancelled when the drummer backed out the day they were supposed to leave.” Part of the problem was that Idle Eyes was made up almost entirely of bandmates from New Zealand and Australia who had visa issues. Back in Vancouver the pair got a new lineup and called themselves Idle Eyes. Though they had other Australian musicians in the line-up, when Campbell and McConville decided to move to Vancouver, the other bandmates chose not to follow. A chambermaid at a hotel Campbell knew, Donna McConville, became the bands’ lead singer. In 1980 he replied to an ad looking for a guitarist, and ended up with the band playing for months at a resort in the Whitsunday Islands. After high school he found himself in Australia moonlighting for a band called the Daydream Islanders between shifts while working for a luxury liner that cruised around parts of the continent. Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart ![]()
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