Elton John, Billy Joel, Phil Collins and Freddie Mercury all have something in common aside of a smidge of talent and the fact they all became pop-stars.
Watch Elton John perform I'm Still Standing or Billy Joel play My Life at their pianos; witness Freddie Mercury winding up for We are the Champions or Phil Collins on drums during In The Air Tonight, and you'll see something magical happening, something that sends shivers down your spine.
But what is it that they do?
We'll it's the same something' that caused Bob Geldoff to pull all his music industry pals together and raise millions for charity back in the eighties with the hit Do they Know its Christmas and the subsequent Band Aid appeal. It got Churchill to move the nation with powerful speeches and it is all that stands between you and our true greatness.
But what is that something'? And is it simple enough to bring into our everyday lives?
We all have a gift for something. It's something that we get inspired by. It's something that when we do it we feel purposeful and "at one".
Maybe you know what that is. Maybe you don't.
When spiritual teachers talk about purpose they talk about it as something we have inside us. It's true we all have that special something... that something that is the music inside us, but essentially life meaningless and empty, until we fill it.
I had that experience last summer when on holiday in Spain last summer. There was no school run. No animals to feed. No work to do. I had a blank canvas and from it I created a new purpose.
Before last summer I had never noticed so obviously that we all have the power to materialise and dematerilise life so easily. We construct meaning to things easily and make ourselves purposeful, but how often does that purposefulness connect with passion and inspiration and cause electric sparks in your being?