Well - what a turnout - eight of us including two debutants - and a good night was had by all - special award to Gary for lasting a couple of hours, having just arrived from Oz, after missing a connection in Singapore and arriving home without bags. Malcolm, too, was jet-lagged but managed to stagger through until after midnight.
The evening started with, as usual, the Obituary Section. There were 9 nominees and we all voted for who would be most and least missed. All (bar 1) managed to fill out the voting form correctly and the final results were:
- Gerry Rafferty 64
- Captain Beefheart 61
- Gary Moore 61
- Solomon Burke 44
- John Barry 43
- Gregory Isaacs 38
- General Norman Johnson (Chairmen of the Board) 22
- Ari Up (Slits) 18
- Bobby Farrell (Boney M) 17
Bit of a surprise there - I thought the Captain would cake-walk it.
The next section featured songs that were banned by the BBC. Naturally, this is a bit of a relic of the past and the videos therefore were all from the 60's & 70's. Here's the list, with the reasons given for the bans:
- Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen - Anti Monarchy (in Silver Jubilee Year)
- Twinkle - Terry -Song about death
- Byrds - Eight Miles High - Drugs
- Troggs - I can't control myself - Sexual innuendo
- Smoke - My friend Jack - Drugs inferences
- John Lennon - Working Class Hero - Swearing
- Stranglers - Peaches - Woman baiting
- Paul Simon - Kodachrome - Advertising
Section 3 was Protest Songs and we debated what each one was protesting about/against:
- Specials - Ghost Town - Thatcher/Economy
- John Lennon - Give peace a chance - Vietnam
- Bob Dylan & friends - Blowin' in the wind - What have you got?
- Barry McGuire - Eve of destruction - Apocalypse
- Donovan Universal Soldier - War
- Janis Ian - Society's Child - Inter-racial romance
- Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth - Vietnam/Police
- Country Joe McDonald - The Fish Cheer (Feel like I'm fixing to die rag) - Vietnam
- Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding - Falklands War
Several suggestions were received - too late - for Songs Featuring Whistling that I should have included, but hadn't, but we still voted on the ones that were shown and, this time, there were no spoilt papers and the final results were:
- John Lennon - Jealous Guy - 61
- Otis Redding - Sittin' on the dock of the bay - 48
- Beatles - Two of us - 39
- Peter Bjorn & John - Young folks - 35
- David Bowie - Golden Years - 34
- Beck - Sissyneck - 29
- Paul Simon - Me and Julio down by the schoolyard - 28
- Andrew Bird - Oh no - 14
That was the first part of the evening over - more to follow in the next blog posting.
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