David Crosby, looking like a Chinese tea master from a distant century, sang "Blackbird" with her.
The Guthrie Inn is small and narrow, and in the early evening, it can actually qualify as romantic — and not just because Marvin Gaye is singing "Distant Lover" when you walk in.
And I heard rising up from the little man a distant meandering singing, as when a blade of grass is split and blown into, to bring out a high, narrow squeal.
Christopher, on a balmy day in the Seine valley, the war for once distant, hears a skylark singing so far out of season that he concludes "the bird must be over-sexed".
Rebecca sang "Distant Dreamer" and we quickly cut back to Colchester, where the Lady Mayor winced as Stacey introduced her.
It was a prospect that horrified Bono and Curtis who knew a bunch of white, middle-aged millionaires singing about a distant, poverty-stricken continent could provoke mirth.
We tried this with several opera, jazz and pop recordings, but the vocalists remained audible, as if singing in a distant garbage can.
At the moment when the march briefly subsides, and an eerie chorale is heard, the sound was veiled and pungent, like some Russian Orthodox choir singing from a distant loft in a cathedral.
This is why I was so surprised to be gently stirred awake early one morning during my recent vacation in Rome by the distant sounds of a soprano singing Italian arias and songs.
There is not much instrumentation accompanying the singer's vocals, except for piano sounds and distant synths, making Gaga's singing the focal point of "Dope".
