Track 10 off the very same "Vagabond Heart" by Rod Stewart is this wedding classic that Van Morrison popularized back in the day. This was an interesting case and i'll get to that in a second. Firstly, the album version of the song is 4:00 in length and has a clear golden section that runs from 2:10 to 2:40 when the chorus picks up again. I chose to take the midpoint of the section, at 2:25 as my marker...
4:00/2:25 = 1.655
This is a pretty significant deviation from 1.618 but is at least in the vicinity.
Now for the interesting part. The live performance version of this song is 3:53 seconds... The golden section starts at 2:09 and ends at 2:39, which leaves us with 2:24 as the midpoint.
3:53/2:24 = 1.618! Exactly Fibonacci!
Furthermore.....pertaining to the alternate sequence... to refresh everyone's memory, the sequence is 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610,987.
The first sung words of the song (Have I told you lately that I love you) begin at 13 seconds.
The 2nd sung words (Have I told you there's noone else above you) begin at 21 seconds.
A distinct build up in melody occurs at 56 seconds (just barely past 55)
Rod belts out a high note, "We should give thanks and pray!" at 89 seconds
The song itself is 233 seconds long and the golden section's midpoint is at 144 seconds!
Conclusions:
The live performance of this song is a very strong case of the presence of Fibonacci!
Rod Stewart is the man.
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wow, that is really cool! I can't believe all those signifcant pieces in the song aligned with fibonacci numbers.
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