This 91-year-old hospice patient wrote a song honouring 'beautiful' Vancouver

When Jack Roche has trouble falling asleep, he listens to music.

In particular, he loves to listen to the song Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice for the musical Evita, released in 1976. 

That song, he says, inspired him to write his own piece of music — his first song — at 91. 

“I got so goddamn much energy,” he told On the Coast host Gloria Macarenko. 

“So these songs help me to go

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