Courtesy of the estimable Jim Adams, this week we have to tell porkies about ancient Egypt. Who was buried in King Tut’s tomb? Shergar Why did the Sphinx have a lion’s body and a human head? Because it was easier to do it like that rather than the other way round. What month of the…
Well now, today’s prompt for Song Lyric Sunday presents an interesting epistemological conundrum. Jim wants a song from ‘a forgotten band’. Hang on though: if we can write about it, they can’t be forgotten, can they? But enough of this chop logic – on with the back story. It’s early October 1970 and my first…
Our challenge for Song Lyric Sunday this week is to post something from a band that you wish were still together. I know what you’re thinking – the good old Grateful Dead, right? Wrong. Some might argue that the GD legacy lives on through ‘Dead and Company’ (and some earlier, similar iterations) but for me…
This week, Jim’s looking for a childhood memory for Song Lyric Sunday. Firstly, define childhood: I think pre-teen is reasonable for this stage of development. That takes me to mid-1965, strictly speaking, but I’ve gone a bit earlier, because the Fab Four changed everything in 1963. Way back then, our radio options were very limited.…
In all honesty, there aren’t that many songs I can think of where I could be absolutely sure that I had the lyrics off pat, but that’s what Jim’s after for Song Lyric Sunday this week. Like many crusties, I probably have clearer recall of things from half a century ago than of what I…
The Song Lyric Sunday tour of musical instruments reaches the drums this week. This wasn’t too difficult for me to decide on, although it certainly can’t have been easy providing the backing for the mercurial genius of Jimi Hendrix. By and large, though, Noel Redding (bass) and Mitch Mitchell (drums) did a pretty good job.…
This week we’re looking for a song that featured on the long-running BBC TV programme Top Of The Pops (or on Ready, Steady Go, which was even cooler – and if the scope had been extended to the unmissable Old Grey Whistle Test, well, the sky would have been the limit). Anyway, there was never…
For Song Lyric Sunday this week we’re looking for something eerie. A couple of things came to mind almost immediately – ‘There’s A Ghost In My House’ and, harking back even further – to the Saturday morning children’s request show on BBC radio – ‘Ghost Riders In The Sky’. Hmm. As the French say: “Oui,…
“Put on your red shoes” This week’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge needs a song that mentions an item of clothing. My first thought was David Bowie’s ‘Queen Bitch’ (what exactly is a bippetty-boppetty hat?), but I’ve already deployed it. Still, Bowie surely knew more about fashion items than most modern music icons, so it didn’t…
This week’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday is ‘gospel’. That’s a difficult one for me, as I do not have an iota of belief in any supreme or supernatural being. Better just leave it at that. Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of lifeEnd over end, neither left nor to rightStraight through the heart…
