posted on: October 19, 2020
Dreadlock Holiday Lyrics: I was walkin' down the street / Concentrating on truckin' right / I heard a dark voice beside of me / And I looked round in a state of fright / I saw four faces, one mad / A
I think he knew this. Benaud loved a punt – horses mainly and was often spotted in the Ladbrokes tent when anchor man Peter West allowed him the chance to get away. This, to my mind, makes for a rather mean-spirited song, a lose-lose game whose main purpose is to make 10cc seem clever and cynically realistic.
10cc's reggae-tinged number one single was based on real events Eric Stewart and Moody Blues singer Justin Hayward experienced in Barbados. Still, it’s about average to me so I’ll give it 5. A lot of this had to do with an aversion to reggae on rock radio. On one level the ‘plot’ of “Dreadlock Holiday” is hugely important to any judgement of it. They are talking about a State funeral in Australia. Intriguing song – certainly different to all the safe, generic pap that’s released these days.
He was good but not outstanding and would probably have only lasted a couple of seasons with Essex, his preferred choice or with anyone else for that matter. I think I ought to know how to say my own name.”.
Struggling to find somewhere suitable to pay my respects to the late Richie Benaud, caught at deep midwicket for 84. The song, light reggae which slides skilfully from awkward bounce to clammy paranoia, is an inversion of the lyrics’ theme: if you want to be a tourist, it says, stick to the studio and you can happily steal stuff from them. And the difference in their reactions — the one running away and seeking pleasure, the other consumed by anger and an urgent, infectious refusal to accept.
Richie’s passing is a great loss to the larger sporting world, although in non-cricketing quarters, his name would mean nothing. Ob La Di Ob La Da was big in Jamaica. 79, Smash Hits initially presented itself as primarily a place where you could read all the songwords to the latest hits. While the ‘boring old farts’ were wimping off about a stolen necklace and running home to the safety of a hotel swimming pool and a prostitute — in real life it smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs, with his life swimming around him and drowning. "Dreadlock Holiday" is pretty fuckin racist. A page about what he's up to can be found, Required (Your email address will not be published), The Vengaboys’ revival of Typically Tropical beats “Barbados” in significant ways just by switching locations.
Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. “My harvest is the best” and all that, c’mon! « THE COMMODORES – “Three Times A Lady” Add lyrics on Musixmatch, Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Do you know the lyrics for this track? They get early posts, exclusive material, and more. So many ifs…, I heard “Up with the Cock” the other day, at the end of some US whorehouse ‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentary. This seems a great shame and an incomplete picture of popular music of the 1960s. You could be one of them! This, to my mind, makes for a rather mean-spirited song, a lose-lose game whose main purpose is to make 10cc seem clever and cynically realistic. I drew a blank. Go directly to shout page. Popular FAQ My brother played for London Schools and was without doubt County level but decided against following that path.
Kate Garraway It only occurred to me recently, the girl in the last verse is not a prostitute but a ganja dealer. If this was number 1 when you were born paste [stork-boy] or [stork-girl] into the start of your comment :), MailRequired (Your email address will not be published). Really? Richie was at the centrepoint of all of this and was the perfect foil in his early days in the BBC commentary box for the very dour Jim Laker, who despite being a Surrey hero, had the personality of a parsnip.
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Yes, a great loss. So, as a songwords mag, there wasn’t a great deal of editorial to begin with. Earth Wind & Fire, This image appears in the gallery:7 amazing facts about soft rock legends 10cc, 10cc's reggae-tinged number one single was based on real events Eric Stewart and Moody Blues singer Justin Hayward experienced in Barbados. The main thing is that it's one of those iconically simple pop hits, like a "Louie Louie" for…, Before writing this entry I scoured the Internet to see if DJ Sammy had ever said or done anything interesting. This can be verified on … Do you know a YouTube video for this track? Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website.
Add a video, Do you know any background info about this track? You guys had better ideas than I did – the nearest I could think of was surely at least a reference in Rory Bremner’s parody of Paul Hardcastle’s 19 (N-N-Nineteen Not Out). ― Raage Saga (Noodle Vague) , Saturday, 20 November 2010 12:37 (nine years ago) link I am thus no stranger to Oval Tests over the ages and have seen some of the great Aussie sides as well as the Windies. it shifts up a key totally unnecessarily at the end of the middle eight? Family…, DEE DEE NANANA! Benaud, it’s Benaud. I'm writing about every UK number one single, in order.
And wallow in a dreadlock holiday” So the protagonist runs away from the gangster after the failed attempt to bond with them back to the hotel. 10am - 1pm, September Graham Gouldman said: "Some of the experiences that are mentioned are true, and some of them are ... fairly true! "With 'Dreadlock Holiday,' we got a report from one station that said, 'Oh, we don't play reggae,'" Gouldman said in a Songfacts interview.
I wondered in a chat with the Swede whether Paul Gambaccini maybe thought at the time that his own sexual preferences were more of a career threat than Savile’s, being the Radio 1 new boy and all that, otherwise he might have taken it further. Leave feedback, Bob Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981), born Nesta Robert Marley which was later to be changed by passport officials to Robert Nesta Marley, was a Jamaican.
I’ll give it another few years. It wasn’t about different types of music; it was about a different way of living.
I’d say it’s the Beatles’ most common Jamaican pressing, having never seen another Jamaican Beatles single. What surely counts is what he achieved as well as how he was perceived. The narrator is a tourist in Jamaica – he gets mugged for his silver chain and returns to the comfort of his hotel where a woman tries to sell him weed. However, Stewart changed the location to Jamaica. Index of reviews and scores so far I haven’t ever been a great fan of 10cc, precisely because I feel there’s this callous smirk behind a lot of their music, and “Dreadlock Holiday” crystallises the feeling for … Together they must have cost Jamaica a lot of tourism.
History’s forgetting of that would seem a kindness. May I point out that this song has a ‘truck driver’s gear change’ half-way through, i.e.
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