The February 3rd column in "Today from Public Utilities Fortnightly," our digital daily distraction for you all, was entitled Singing Electricity. The column simply quoted David Bowie, Boz Skaggs, Ray Charles, Laurie Anderson, Dolly Parton, Damian Marley and Jimi Hendrix, talking emotionally about electricity.
Many readers were evidently surprised and delighted about the daily columns departing for a day from our stats and analysis that map where the utilities industry is and is going. You sent us a ton of mail, figuratively; weightless e-mail, literally.
Here's what you found:
Eddy Grant, Electric Avenue
Oh no, we gonna rock down to
Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
AC/DC, High Voltage
I said high
High voltage rock 'n' roll
High voltage rock 'n' roll
High voltage, high voltage
High voltage rock 'n' roll
Robert Palmer, I Dream of Wires
I am the final silence
The last electrician alive
And they called me the Sparkle
I was the best, I worked them all
New ways, new ways
I dream of wires
We opened doors by thinking
We went to sleep by dialing O
We drove to work by front seat
I plugged my wife in just for show