Paul Hardcastle, Marvin Gaye 19 k kat jazz café The Smooth Loft

19 The 30th Anniversary Mixes (NUA Remix) 2015. .. Paul Hardcastle was inspired to create the song 19 after watching Vietnam Requiem and comparing his own life at 19 to those of the soldiers featured: struck me was how young the soldiers were: the documentary said their average age was 19. I was out having fun in pubs and clubs when I was 19, not being shoved into jungles and shot The title 19 comes from the documentary s claim that the average age of an American combat soldier in the wa