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Signing off with some of the lyrics that I like, where someone sings frankly about a friend:

"My friend's flesh and blood
She lies overtime
You'd nail her if you could
But she says
Love me for my mind
In my time …"

This track just gets my soul every time … it's Phil Mananera's signature power chords!

Roxy Music, "Flesh and Blood" (1980)

youtube.com/watch?v=keKySy4z6w

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This song is about the complications of friendship, relationships, love … should match the theme of "Friends and Family":

"I'm gonna fall
I probably should
Well catch me
You never could
I planned out the distance
From where you stood
When I hit the ground
I'm gonna laugh out loud
and lay there a while
And stare at the clouds …"

Nathaniel Rateliff, "Falling Faster Than You Can Run" (2013; live in studio May 2014)

youtube.com/watch?v=b5Q_Zg_QAr

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I instantly think of this song, as it reminds me of when I lived in a tiny studio flat on a meagre wage - and it was my friends that made that (very necessary, yet difficult) moment of growing up more bearable.

Groove Armada and My Friend.

song.link/gb/i/211468591

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Every so often … all right, I'll face up to it … quite often I'll post a song by Goldie Boutilier, but only because I think she's worthy of our attention.

So for "Friends and Family" on Jukebox Friday Night:

"Daddy I'm in trouble, think I fell in love
with a cowboy, a gangster, a politician …"

Goldie Boutilier, "Cowboy Gangster Politician" (2024)

youtube.com/watch?v=0wwwhJxFnB

Sticking with "Hey Grandma", but this is the song written by Skip Spence for Moby Grape, but the version I know and like is –

Mick Ronson, "Hey Grandma" (1976, released 1999)

Okay, the lyrics are meaningless …
"Hey Grandma, you're so young
Your old man's just a boy
It's been a long time this time, pow pow pow …"

youtube.com/watch?v=o_dMad3OxA