Just noticed this 1982 Lindisfarne clip and thought it sounded familiar… the groove… the riff…
Denouement in the comments/
‘Shoplifters of the World’… was it shoplifted?
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And in 1987…
Is this the last time they appeared together as a band? pretty sure they didn’t do any gigs after this.
I believe it was their last single (The Smiths that is).
“Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me” was their last single while they were a going concern.
It was going to be the totally brilliant “Stop Me If You Think that You’ve Heard This One Before” but the Hungerford massacre happened and the line about planning a mass murder proved troublesome.
That’s very similar indeed. In the same way that Panic is basically Metal Guru.
On such matters there was a Twitter thread recently about some humorous writing from the 1920s which contained a piece about 4 successful businessmen trying to out-do each other with tales of their own poverty when growing up. On reading it, you have to conclude that the Pythons read it too.
From At Last the 1948 Show rather than Python – co-written by marty feldman, tim brooke-taylor as well as john C and Graham C
Think the joke itself is ss old as people have been telling jokes , what made it so great was the language (“you were lucky!” And, of course, the Drury Lane live album
Yes, you’re right of course. Reading the 1920s piece though, it is pretty much exactly the same set-up. Although the men in that sketch haven’t ordered yet and after their exchanges they go on to order competitively humble food (but then change their minds…).
It’s only the rhythm that is shared (as it is with ‘The Look’ by Roxette).
SLOTW is the only Smiths song I actively like.
The D-E-A (or whatever it is) change/hook is rather prominent in both! Still, it’s an easy enough sequence for any number of musicians to have found. 🙂