Welcome to the weekend. It’s November 12, and philosopher Roland Barthes was born on this day in 1915. This band, The Lover Speaks, took their name from his A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, and they wrote and performed this song which was later a hit for Annie Lennox.
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