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Death, Sex & Money - A Trans Elder’s ‘Final Act’: Musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The 79-year-old musician tells Anna about coming into his gender identity, “being cared for” by his bandmates, and the joys–and pitfalls–of finding success later in life.

Listen to "Transmissions" here (https://open.spotify.com/album/6X7rxq4bKcwPTKRFgIzR30?si=BfLeHGcKRS-uC0O5T9irBA), and you can stream his new album “The Ones Ahead” here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0AdkBNWEM8uprSOb2ah8aD.

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0:00.0

I really believe that we are constantly affecting everything around us and it responds to us.

0:10.0

So if we can hold or primarily hold a positive feeling about the world, about ourselves, and hold hope we can change the world.

0:24.3

This is death, sex, and money.

0:27.7

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

0:34.7

I'm Anna Sam.

0:35.9

Welcome to spring, the summer rain, softly turned to sing again.

0:44.3

Welcome the bud, the summer blooming flower. This is Beverly Glenn Copeland, whose music has become a source of comfort and joy for me over the last few years.

1:04.5

Glenn is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter, whom I first talked to in 2020.

1:10.0

And then, again, just a few weeks ago, for an

1:12.4

update earlier at the end of this episode. He's been quietly putting out albums since the

1:17.8

1970s. This song, Ever New, was released by Glenn in 1986 on an album called Keyboard Fantasies.

1:27.0

The album went largely unnoticed until 2015,

1:31.1

when a Japanese record collector emailed Glenn to ask if he had any more copies.

1:35.9

I wouldn't go so much as to say it was exciting.

1:38.2

I would say I was thinking, oh, that's great.

1:41.5

And there must have some around here somewhere,

1:43.7

and I didn't even remember where they were.

1:45.0

My wife said, yeah, this is where they are,

1:46.5

and she went and pulled them all out.

1:49.7

Otherwise, I'd still be looking for them, right?

1:53.5

And he sold those within a week and a half.

1:57.5

And then what happened was,

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