These Dreams of You

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The radio station the next day, from where Zan broadcasts four times a week a three-hour music show, he announces following the first set, “The Sam Cooke record — the greatest ever made — was for what happened last night. Forty-five years after the song was recorded. . but then all the song says is that a change will come, not how fast, right?” By the time the song was released as a B-side, the singer was murdered in an L.A. motel under tawdry circumstances. “But is it just me,” Zan asks, “or when he goes from that bridge into the final verse, does he redeem not only anything he ever did — including whatever it was that got him shot — but everything I ever did too?”