FabSwingers.com forum: The story behind the song. Do you know any?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Queen wrote Flash as John Deacon liked to publicly expose has right testicle.

Michael Jackson wrote Dirty Diana after seeing Princess Di blowing Bubbles.

*Disclaimer: These may be made up*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Taylor Swift writes a song every time she breaks up with a boyfriend.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Alanis Morisette's ex was Richard Hammond, a cute, fluffy Doe eyed harmless little sausage ! She invented an evil cheating fucker so she could write angry songs and swear !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spice girls two become one was about safe sex.

Get it on

Because tonight is the night when two become one

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

I know what meatloaf wouldn't do

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I know what meatloaf wouldn't do"

Diet?

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

"I know what meatloaf wouldn't do

Diet? "

He did do that , oooh whoooaaa but he won't do ......

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I know Athlete's Wires is about a premature birth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I watched the documentary on bbc4 on the album rumours.

Nearly every single song was about one or the others infidelities and sometimes with other band members

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I watched the documentary on bbc4 on the album rumours.

Nearly every single song was about one or the others infidelities and sometimes with other band members

It's what makes it such a perfect album.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I watched the documentary on bbc4 on the album rumours.

Nearly every single song was about one or the others infidelities and sometimes with other band members

It's what makes it such a perfect album.

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lol.... It really was quite eye opening watching the doc and quite funny how you attach your own thoughts to something until you realise what it was wrote about

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By *illbillMan
over a year ago

dublin

Cold play write shit music....no story just shit tunes

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I watched the documentary on bbc4 on the album rumours.

Nearly every single song was about one or the others infidelities and sometimes with other band members

It's what makes it such a perfect album.

lol.... It really was quite eye opening watching the doc and quite funny how you attach your own thoughts to something until you realise what it was wrote about"

"...players only love you when they're playing..."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know McCartney wrote hey Jude for Lennon's son Julian when his parents were divorcing.

The original lyrics were hey Jules.

And Lennon wrote beautiful boy as a lullaby for his son Sean who was suffering from nightmares.

Which coincidentally contains one of my favourite lines.

Before you cross the road, take my hand, life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Deacon blues real gone kid is about maria mckee

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fade to Grey....Visage was about a pair of Steve Stranges white boxers that he was fond of but sadly couldn't afford Daz

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down.

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

"'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down."

True rock and roll

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

Perfect Day (Lou Reed then later the charity single) is about being on smack.

Practically all Zappa lyrics/titles are based on some real life event or conversation - my fave obscure one is Watermelon in Easter Hay. During a rehearsal Zappa said (according to the man himself), "playing a guitar solo with this band is like trying to grow a watermelon in Easter Hay"

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

One of the most misquoted rock lyrics of all time is in Roadhouse Blues (the Doors).

According to Jim Morrison, he'd been caning it pretty hard for several days, loads of booze and drugs, no sleep, then he crashed for a few days. When he woke up and looked in the mirror he'd grown a beard. The line should be "I woke up this morning and I got myself a beard", not a beer, as everyone seems to think it is.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fade to Grey....Visage was about a pair of Steve Stranges white boxers that he was fond of but sadly couldn't afford Daz

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was Daz his local dry cleaner ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Fade to Grey....Visage was about a pair of Steve Stranges white boxers that he was fond of but sadly couldn't afford Daz

was Daz his local dry cleaner ? "
Quite possibly

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Ms. Jackson by Outkast is about Erykah Badu's mum.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Deacon blues real gone kid is about maria mckee"
yes i heard that too. Grace by Supergrass is about a day they spent at jonathon ross's house and met his daughter. Really cute lyrics

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

The phrase "turning Japanese" from the eponymous song by the Vapours, refers to the way men go squinty eyed when masturbating - I booked them to play at the uni I was at when that song was released - I never knew the meaning of the line until many years later.

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

Ben was about Michael Jackson's pet rat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Don't by Ed sheeran is about Ellie Goulding and niall from 1D shagging behind his back

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Ben was about Michael Jackson's pet rat"

I thought it was about the rat in the film/book that I can't now remember the name of.

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

slightly off topic, but quite interesting, 10cc are so named as it's the average volume of male ejaculate.

Similarly, Steely Dan was named after a female sex toy and their song Fez is about the wisdom of having sex with a condom on ("you ain't never gonna do it without your fez on")

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"slightly off topic, but quite interesting, 10cc are so named as it's the average volume of male ejaculate.

Similarly, Steely Dan was named after a female sex toy and their song Fez is about the wisdom of having sex with a condom on ("you ain't never gonna do it without your fez on")

I thought Fez was an homage to Funky Monkey.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a habit for a long time of singing... All wrapped up in chains

That might be just my warped mind like

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

One by Metallica is based on Dalton Trumbo's 'Johnny got his Gun'. Trumbo also wrote the screenplay for Spartacus and was blacklisted by Hollywood during the McCarthy era.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"slightly off topic, but quite interesting, 10cc are so named as it's the average volume of male ejaculate.

Similarly, Steely Dan was named after a female sex toy and their song Fez is about the wisdom of having sex with a condom on ("you ain't never gonna do it without your fez on")

Deacon Blue were named after a Steely Dan song...

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By *razedcatMan
over a year ago

London / Herts

"Jolene" by Dolly Parton was actually written in reference to a five year old Dolly once met after a one of her performances, who had

"Flaming locks of auburn hair with ivory skin, and eyes of emerald green"

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"slightly off topic, but quite interesting, 10cc are so named as it's the average volume of male ejaculate.

Similarly, Steely Dan was named after a female sex toy and their song Fez is about the wisdom of having sex with a condom on ("you ain't never gonna do it without your fez on")

indeed

and the Dan's Kid Charlemagne is about a cocaine lab's proprietor (kid )

Deacon Blue were named after a Steely Dan song..."

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

dunno how that happened, but the posts are out of sequence :D

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

'Ricky Don't Lose That Number' is about Rick Derringer...should we just have a while thread about Steely Dan?

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Whole thread, even!

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

'I'm leaving on a jet plane' by John Denver was a prophesy.

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

Boom town rats - I don't like Mondays , was about a boy/girl who went on a mad rampagewith a gun , on a Monday so I'm lead to believe

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By *dam_TinaCouple
over a year ago

Hampshire

"Ben was about Michael Jackson's pet rat

I thought it was about the rat in the film/book that I can't now remember the name of.

Willard

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

As most Blues aficionados will know, Robert Johnson's Crossroads (as made famous by Clapton), is about his supposed Faustian pact with the devil to provide him with fame and fortune as a musician, in return for his soul

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mind games by John Lennon was about his disaffection with religious groups.

She's leaving home by the Beatles is one of my favourite tracks and is based on a true story of a teenage girl runaway called Melanie coe

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!"

yeah, you can tell by the articulation that it's keys

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"'Ricky Don't Lose That Number' is about Rick Derringer...should we just have a whole thread about Steely Dan?

Didn't know that one

, and yes, Steely Dan is worthy of a whole thread, as is Zappa

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The song "something" by goerge harrison/the Beatles and the two songs by Eric Clapton "Layla" and "wonderful tonight" was all wrote for the same woman Pattie Boyd,she was married to both Goerge Harrison an Eric Clapton...not at the same time tho before some smart ass says it lol.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Lady in Red by Chris De Burch is...shit!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!

yeah, you can tell by the articulation that it's keys"
i think it is guitar . .but played through a synth

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

Burgh even, fucking phone!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

And golden brown are about drugs

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!

yeah, you can tell by the articulation that it's keys i think it is guitar . .but played through a synth"

It's not, it's a synth, played through a keyboard by Tommy Mandel.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Burgh even, fucking phone!"
ah ah ah ! . .proof reading is not down to your phone. . Ha !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *or Fox SakeCouple
over a year ago

Thornaby

New Order wrote Blue Monday on a Thursday

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!

yeah, you can tell by the articulation that it's keys i think it is guitar . .but played through a synth"

Yeah, you can use a guitar synth and make it sound like anything you want, same with keys, but you can tell from the articulation of the notes which instrument is being used. Same way you can tell if it's synth brass/strings, or actual brass/strings. Sonically, the synth patches are indistinguishable, being sample based, but you can't change the way, mechanically, that the notes are played.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"Burgh even, fucking phone! ah ah ah ! . .proof reading is not down to your phone. . Ha ! "

It's still not a guitar solo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lucy in the sky with diamonds

And golden brown are about drugs

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i watched a interview with John Lennon and he said lucy in the sky with diamonds came from a picture his son painted and when lennon ask his son what it is his reply was its lucy in the sky with diamonds,not sure if that was just a cover up thou.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"New Order wrote Blue Monday on a Thursday"

The Cure wrote 'Friday I'm in Love' on a Tuesday

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Boom town rats - I don't like Mondays , was about a boy/girl who went on a mad rampagewith a gun , on a Monday so I'm lead to believe"

And when captured and asked why they apparently replied "I don't like Mondays"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"New Order wrote Blue Monday on a Thursday

The Cure wrote 'Friday I'm in Love' on a Tuesday

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wednesday week by the undertones was written on a sunday

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!"

Even Freddie didn't know what the fuck Bohemian Rhapsody was about

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

all together now the farm the truce during war when they played football

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"Lucy in the sky with diamonds

And golden brown are about drugs

i watched a interview with John Lennon and he said lucy in the sky with diamonds came from a picture his son painted and when lennon ask his son what it is his reply was its lucy in the sky with diamonds,not sure if that was just a cover up thou."

I always understood that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was a euphemism for LSD - certainly it was used as such in those circles.

Golden Brown refers to heroin, it is often, well, golden brown, frequently referred to as brown sugar, as the Stones knew well when they wrote the eponymous track, making it deliberately ambiguous

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!

Even Freddie didn't know what the fuck Bohemian Rhapsody was about

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freddie wrote "Barcelona" about when we first went to see the opera singer who did duet with.(I can't remember he name)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Burgh even, fucking phone! ah ah ah ! . .proof reading is not down to your phone. . Ha !

It's still not a guitar solo

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ha. . I'll concede that maybe it's not. . Now go and practice your proof reading . . Ha

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!

Even Freddie didn't know what the fuck Bohemian Rhapsody was about

I just assumed it was about man love and anal penetration

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"Burgh even, fucking phone! ah ah ah ! . .proof reading is not down to your phone. . Ha !

It's still not a guitar solo

ha. . I'll concede that maybe it's not. . Now go and practice your proof reading . . Ha

It's deffo keys - you can hear it in the articulation

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!

Even Freddie didn't know what the fuck Bohemian Rhapsody was about

freddie wrote "Barcelona" about when we first went to see the opera singer who did duet with.(I can't remember he name)"

Montserrat Caballé

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!

Even Freddie didn't know what the fuck Bohemian Rhapsody was about

freddie wrote "Barcelona" about when we first went to see the opera singer who did duet with.(I can't remember he name)"

Montserrat Caballe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Any Quo song that refers to a Caroline refers to an old flame of any of the band members!

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By *each_PittWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

"Lucy in the sky with diamonds

And golden brown are about drugs

I always understood that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was a euphemism for LSD - certainly it was used as such in those circles.

Golden Brown refers to heroin, it is often, well, golden brown, frequently referred to as brown sugar, as the Stones knew well when they wrote the eponymous track, making it deliberately ambiguous "

The Stranglers?

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

yeah

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

"The guitar solo in 'I Want to Break Free' by Queen isn't a guitar solo!

Even Freddie didn't know what the fuck Bohemian Rhapsody was about

freddie wrote "Barcelona" about when we first went to see the opera singer who did duet with.(I can't remember he name)"

Montserrat Caballe (not sure about the spelling)

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

Just remembered one of my all time faves.

Hapiness - Ken Dodd - he said he just did it for a laugh and never thought it would get past the censors - everyone missed it

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

You're so vain was written by Carly Simon after she met Funky whilst he was time travelling

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Under the bridge was written about anthony keides's addiction to heroin

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Please please me by the Beatles was about asking his girlfriend for a blowjob.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I heard Phil Collins "in the air tonight" was about a decorator who was working on his house was shagging phils wife while he was at work and listening to the lyrics it does make sense.

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"I heard Phil Collins "in the air tonight" was about a decorator who was working on his house was shagging phils wife while he was at work and listening to the lyrics it does make sense."

It is quite emulsional

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"Burgh even, fucking phone! ah ah ah ! . .proof reading is not down to your phone. . Ha !

It's still not a guitar solo

ha. . I'll concede that maybe it's not. . Now go and practice your proof reading . . Ha

My period rating is dine!

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By *arry247Couple
over a year ago

Wakefield

The Hollies Carrie Anne was written about Marriane Faithfull

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

Arnold Layne (early Floyd) based on a real person who went around stealing women's clothing off washing lines

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Burgh even, fucking phone! ah ah ah ! . .proof reading is not down to your phone. . Ha !

It's still not a guitar solo

ha. . I'll concede that maybe it's not. . Now go and practice your proof reading . . Ha

My period rating is dine!

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ha. . Yes it's very home

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

think paul simon wrote homeward bound while waiting for a train on widnes railway station.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Cold play write shit music....no story just shit tunes"

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

I fell down the stairs whilst playing guitar the other day and accidentally composed a new One Direction song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The song "something" by goerge harrison/the Beatles and the two songs by Eric Clapton "Layla" and "wonderful tonight" was all wrote for the same woman Pattie Boyd,she was married to both Goerge Harrison an Eric Clapton...not at the same time tho before some smart ass says it lol."
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Lol plenty of shaggers in the music world.

Bryan ferry recorded let's stick together for his then girlfriend jerry hall who was leaving him for Mick Jagger

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By *dam_TinaCouple
over a year ago

Hampshire

"Lucy in the sky with diamonds

And golden brown are about drugs

Lucy in the sky isn't. John Lennon said that his son did a drawing and said 'It's Lucy in the sky with diamonds.' He didn't realise the initials were LSD

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By *dam_TinaCouple
over a year ago

Hampshire

Ah fuck somebody already said that

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"Arnold Layne (early Floyd) based on a real person who went around stealing women's clothing off washing lines"

Didn't he eventually get married to Penny

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lol plenty of shaggers in the music world.

Bryan ferry recorded let's stick together for his then girlfriend jerry hall who was leaving him for Mick Jagger"
but wasn't she in the video ?

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By *ichaelsmyMan
over a year ago

douglas

Luis Armstrong

what a wonderful world.

written because he was going blind

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

"Boom town rats - I don't like Mondays , was about a boy/girl who went on a mad rampagewith a gun , on a Monday so I'm lead to believe

And when captured and asked why they apparently replied "I don't like Mondays"

It was Brenda Spencer who lived opposite the school, her dad had bought her a rifle for christmas.

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

Starz in their eyes, by Just Jack was about the rise of reality talent shows, mainly based on the story of Michelle McManus.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Didn't Goerge Michael write a song about getting caught in the toilets in a night club having sex/a little play with another man?if memory serves me right it was from the mid to late 90's.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm sure it would be played less at funerals or memorial services if the general populace got a whiff that Sarah McLachlans 'Arms of the angels' is actually about someone OD'ing on heroin

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"I'm sure it would be played less at funerals or memorial services if the general populace got a whiff that Sarah McLachlans 'Arms of the angels' is actually about someone OD'ing on heroin

Friends of mine live next door to her - I'm due over there this summer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lucy in the sky with diamonds

And golden brown are about drugs

Lucy was Julian's teacher.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

How long .. By ace was written because the lead singer discovered the bassist had been secretly playing with other bands

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pink Floyd's 'Pigs' is about three politicians - well, two politicians and a 'campaigner', the latter would probably not have approved of 'fab'...

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By *uslaffMan
over a year ago

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Wake me up when September ends was written by green days lead singer Billy summat,after running home from his fathers funeral,as a 10 year old and locking himself in his room. His mother asked him if he would come out,it was early September,he replied "wake me up,when............"

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over a year ago

The 'Sheriff' that Bob Marley shot was a doctor who prescribed his girlfriend the Pill....

Sheriff John Brown always hated me,

For what, I don't know,

Every time I plant a seed,

He said kill it before it grow,

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

"You're so vain was written by Carly Simon after she met Funky whilst he was time travelling

it was written after she broke up with Warren Beatty

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

American Pie....the death of Buddy Holly. ...includes references to the King. ..Elvis, the Joker...Dylan and many more

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anybody else think, in hindsight, that Michael Jackson's Bad' might have been the King of Pop trying to confess something...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Farm's 'Altogether Now' is about the Christmas truce in World War One.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fog on the Tyne

About a river with mist.

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

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"'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down."

No it was not! It was written about sitting in a hotel on the shore of lake Constance (or Geneva cant remember which and cant be bothered looking it up) watching the studio where they were recording their latest album burn down on the other side of the lake...

They then went to Japan and recorded 'Made in Japan' which had 'Smoke on the Water' as the first track and single recorded on the album they then released...

If you are going to tell a story get it right...

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By *uslaffMan
over a year ago

manchester

"'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down.

They then went to Japan and recorded 'Made in Japan' which had 'Smoke on the Water' as the first track and single recorded on the album they then released...

If you are going to tell a story get it right..."

Ooooh get you,nowty knickers

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over a year ago

"Anybody else think, in hindsight, that Michael Jackson's Bad' might have been the King of Pop trying to confess something..."

The opening line was to Macauley Culkin

"Your butt is mine"

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

"Pink Floyd's 'Pigs' is about three politicians - well, two politicians and a 'campaigner', the latter would probably not have approved of 'fab'..."

'Hey you Whitehouse!'

Mary taught in Ab Dabs up till her retirement (Abraham Derby comp, Telford)... In the 80's they had a special school presentation for her as an ex teacher who was famous for forming 'The viewers and Listeners Association' and no one attended!

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

"'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down.

They then went to Japan and recorded 'Made in Japan' which had 'Smoke on the Water' as the first track and single recorded on the album they then released...

If you are going to tell a story get it right...

Ooooh get you,nowty knickers

I know I am so anal about little things like getting modern folk history right!

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By *illwill69uMan
over a year ago

moston

Folk history claims that 'He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother' was taken from a little Scots girl who was seen carrying a crippled boy who was nearly as big as her was asked why she was carrying such a heavy load said "He anit heavy hes ma brother".

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over a year ago

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over a year ago

Bring me the horizon are named after a line from the film Pirates of the Caribbean.

+1 for Coldplay being dour

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over a year ago

"I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash was written after a particularly bad time with conjunctivitis, apparently the whole village was struck down by it and allegedly locals heard the constant thud of forehead on metal as people regularly walked into lamp posts and post boxes.

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"Never Going Back Again" by Fleetwood Mac was written by the guitarist of the band at the time Lindsey Buckingham after the plane on which Fleetwood Mac were touring had to perform an emergency landing in the small remote South American country of Hilakayak. The local tribes people of Hilakayak had years earlier stumbled upon a Walkman and a collection of early Fleetwood Mac tapes that had somehow washed up onto the beach. All the Elders of the tribe had managed to listen to and memorise all these early recordings and work out from the pictures on the tapes inlay that Peter Green was the guitarist. Although to them he was called Pyet Grin and was revered as the God of all Gods who would one day come and live amongst them. Over the course of a couple of days the locals gradually began to realise that these people were Fleetwood Mac minus Pyet Grin and they also came to the conclusion that Lindsey Buckingham was indeed the new guitarist. Yet a further conclusion they reached was that Lindsey Buckingham was guilty of impersonating a Deity, a crime punishable by a slow and torturous death. To cut a long story short, Lindsey Buckingham was taken prisoner and prepared to be sacrificed to appease the Gods, but somehow the rest of the band managed to get the plane fixed and performed a miraculous rescue mission and made their escape to safety, but not before Lindsey Buckingham had been beaten up several times. As he sat on the plane a nervous gibbering wreck he constantly mumbled over and over, "Never Going Back Again, Never Going Back Again, Never Going Back Again".

There are also 'Rumours' (no pun intended) that the song "Go Your Own Way" also on the 'Rumours' album and also written by Lindsey Buckingham was similarly about the terrifying happenings in Hilakayak. But as I say, this is only a rumour so I wouldn't want to say for sure and then look like a fool when it turns out it isn't.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down.

They then went to Japan and recorded 'Made in Japan' which had 'Smoke on the Water' as the first track and single recorded on the album they then released...

If you are going to tell a story get it right...

Ooooh get you,nowty knickers

I know I am so anal about little things like getting modern folk history right!

That was almost Patrick Bateman-esque in its mangling of the truth!

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over a year ago

"Didn't Goerge Michael write a song about getting caught in the toilets in a night club having sex/a little play with another man?if memory serves me right it was from the mid to late 90's."

Careless Whisper

Unkess he was caught with a bar of chocolate up his arse then it would be called

Careless Wispa

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over a year ago

99.9% of songs are written about something close to the lyricist at the time of writing

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

There's a song that I am the inspiration of that is bring worked on at the moment... There is a chance it will be released next year on an album. Its a bit unexpected and was written just as a lovers gesture but he is in a well known band and that's what's happened. We shall see....even that it happened to get this far is funny to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Stay another day" by East 17 was originally about the author's dead brother but it was turned into a love song.

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over a year ago

George Harrison wrote "all those years ago" as a tribute to John Lennon after he was shot dead.i think it was the first time since the beatles brake up that three of the band members had all worked on the one track but the song is only credited to George Harrison as he wrote it.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

""I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash was written after a particularly bad time with conjunctivitis, apparently the whole village was struck down by it and allegedly locals heard the constant thud of forehead on metal as people regularly walked into lamp posts and post boxes."
I heard he wrote this after his very large neighbour called Lorraine moved out

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

What is the truth behind hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

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Scissor sisters -Mary

Written by jason (jake). For his long term friend Mary . He brought her to the UK when they performed at The Royal Albert Hall. She went to a few gigs here.

Unfortunately shortly after she passed away due to complications after surgery.

Makes the song even more poignant

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Stranglers... Golden Brown = Heroin, well so its claimed. I hate drugs it should have been banned

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"What is the truth behind hallelujah by Leonard Cohen"

Which truth? He originally write about 80 verses for it.

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down.

They then went to Japan and recorded 'Made in Japan' which had 'Smoke on the Water' as the first track and single recorded on the album they then released...

If you are going to tell a story get it right...

Ooooh get you,nowty knickers

I know I am so anal about little things like getting modern folk history right!

Not quite correct, they were using a mobile studio, hired off the Rolling Stones (Rolling truck stones thing, just outside). It was pitched up at the Montreux entertainment complex, part of the Casino (we all went down to Montreux, on the lake Geneva shoreline). "Frank Zappa and the Mothers were at the best place place in town", a Zappa concert was taking place inside the complex and "some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground" (during the keyboard solo of Zappa's King Kong). "when it all was over, we had to find another place", they had to move the mobile studio to another location, but had complaints about noise so eventually hired the Montreux Grand Hotel and set up shop there, where the album was recorded and Smoke on the Water was composed, recalling the events, and yes, watching the burning complex from their hotel.

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over a year ago

Tommy Scott the lead singer of the band space wrote "neighbourhood" about the cantril farm estate in Liverpool which had a bad reputation back in the day.

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down.

They then went to Japan and recorded 'Made in Japan' which had 'Smoke on the Water' as the first track and single recorded on the album they then released...

If you are going to tell a story get it right...

Ooooh get you,nowty knickers

I know I am so anal about little things like getting modern folk history right!

Like you say, it's fairly easy to make out from the lyrics; It's entirely autobiographical, not a metaphor to be found, as far as I recall!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The Beatles Ticket to Ride was about the health card that prostitutes had to carry in Germany. Something they learnt in their Hamburg days

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over a year ago

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over a year ago

"slightly off topic, but quite interesting, 10cc are so named as it's the average volume of male ejaculate" as was Pearl Jam and Loving Spoonfull

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over a year ago

"The Stranglers... Golden Brown = Heroin, well so its claimed. I hate drugs it should have been banned

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yes because banning a song ensures that it's never famous doesn't it

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By *asmanian TigerMan
over a year ago

lala land

John Lennon wrote the song "how do you sleep at night" for McCartney.The song makes several pointed and unflattering remarks aimed at his former Beatles songwriting partner, Paul McCartney, although Lennon would later state that many of the accusations he had written could just as easily describe himself.

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over a year ago

"One of the most misquoted rock lyrics of all time is in Roadhouse Blues (the Doors).

Excellent... it makes it an even better song now, it makes sense. The next time I sing it live it'll be the new 'whiskers' enhanced version.

Also, on topic - the line in the Doors song L.A. Woman 'Mr. Mojo Risin' is an anagram of 'Jim Morrison'

oh.... and lastly Axl Rose of Guns n Roses chose his name because it is an anagram of Oral Sex.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

""I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash was written after a particularly bad time with conjunctivitis, apparently the whole village was struck down by it and allegedly locals heard the constant thud of forehead on metal as people regularly walked into lamp posts and post boxes. I heard he wrote this after his very large neighbour called Lorraine moved out"

Yeah, I heard that also. It seems that most people have heard either one or the other of those stories. I studied both stories and after evaluating each on its merits of plausibility I went for the story that seemed more likely to have happened. Statistically you are more likely to get a bad case of conjunctivitis than have the misfortune of living next to someone called Lorraine who is also a larger lady (or man, I suppose).

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over a year ago

"'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down.

They then went to Japan and recorded 'Made in Japan' which had 'Smoke on the Water' as the first track and single recorded on the album they then released...

If you are going to tell a story get it right..."

On the eve of their recording session a Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre. In the middle of Don Preston's synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire when somebody in the audience fired a flare gun into the rattan covered ceiling. The resulting fire destroyed the entire casino complex, along with all the Mothers' equipment.

If you're gonna tell a story, tell it right!

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"'Smoke on the water' by Deep Purple was about when they had to evacuate their hotel because it burnt down.

They then went to Japan and recorded 'Made in Japan' which had 'Smoke on the Water' as the first track and single recorded on the album they then released...

If you are going to tell a story get it right...

If you're gonna tell a story, tell it right!"

Yeah, if you're gonna tell a story, quote it verbatim from Wikipedia

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sylvia's Mother :

"Please Mrs Avery i just want to talk to her....."

Sylvia's Father :

"Sylvia's Father says Sylvia's pregnant and you went and made her that way, Sylvia's Father says you motherfucker, i swear i'll kill you someday."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Marc Bolan's T Rex and "I Love To Boogie"

A simple story. Virtually a direct copy,note for note and word for word of Webb Pierce's "Teenage Boogie."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq7jlJyz8-8

Plagiarism at it's finest.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Your so vein, I bet you think this song is about you" by Carly Simon is actually about him!

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over a year ago

The Neil Young song "The Needle And The Damage Done", was inspired by Neil's Grandmother and her insistence on having a reasonably sound knitting technique; which to her in the long run made sense as it avoided a whole catalogue of problems that could occur later on in the process of knitting a garment.

Her whole ethos was; that it was better to take things slowly and be correct as opposed to rushing into a project and messing it up. Neil fondly remembers her saying many times, "I've seen the needle and the damage done, a little part of it in everyone", which became a mantra of sorts to her and Neil in turn used this 'mantra' as a line in his song which; as well as being a precautionary tale of the avoidance of knitting disasters; is also a fitting tribute to his much loved Grandmother.

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over a year ago

"The Neil Young song "The Needle And The Damage Done", was inspired by Neil's Grandmother and her insistence on having a reasonably sound knitting technique; which to her in the long run made sense as it avoided a whole catalogue of problems that could occur later on in the process of knitting a garment.

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

Love it

"I hit the city and I lost my band" refers to when she went shopping and lost the little row counter band that you put on knitting needles. But the song starts with "I caught you knocking at my cellar door (where she used to keep her supplies of wool), I love you baby can I have some more", a neighbour, having run out of Arran beige, due to cable stitch requiring more wool than she anticipated, was desperately trying to source some more to finish the sleeves

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

""Your so vein, I bet you think this song is about you" by Carly Simon is actually about him!"

Where's my so vein?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

""Your so vein, I bet you think this song is about you" by Carly Simon is actually about him!

Where's my so vein?"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I never did find out the truth behind any of the Worzels songs...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mike Scott wrote 'The Whole of the Moon' after seeing too much of erectjim's arse

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"'Ricky Don't Lose That Number' is about Rick Derringer...should we just have a whole thread about Steely Dan?

Didn't know that one

, and yes, Steely Dan is worthy of a whole thread, as is Zappa"

Got to love a bit Zappa,a prolific songwriter/composer and a true musicians musician.

So many great tunes........harder than your husband,willie the pimp.goblin girl,crew slut........to name a few.

Proper legend

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Turning Japanese by the vapours is all about wanking

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over a year ago

Love it

Many thanks for this extra information, I wasn't fully aware of the meanings in these lines and their connection with knitting. But now that you've explained them they make perfect sense. As you can probably tell my knowledge in the realms of knitting is not great but this has not hindered my appreciation of Neil's great song.

I think I've got the grasp of the rest of the tune, there's the bit where he sings...

"I sing the sing because I love my Gran", well it is her song after all...

"I know that some of you don't understand", that was obviously a reference to people like me who aren't as heavily involved in the knitting scene as others and therefore unaware of the terminology.

And speaking of terminology there's the final line "But every Junctions like a setting sun", which confused me at first until I realised that the word 'junction' once also was another way of saying 'juncture' which is an obvious critical point in time. In knitting I can only hazard a guess as to what may count as a 'juncture' but the metaphor of it being like "a setting sun" is fairly obvious.

The guitarist Bert Jansch, who was a big influence on Neil Young, has a song called "Needle Of Death" that covers very similar issues. Perhaps he was also influenced by Neil's Grandmother, it seems that the knitting community have a lot to thank her for.

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over a year ago

Alltogether Now by The Farm was inspired by the christmas truce on the western front in 1914 when the fighting stopped for up to several days in some places while german and british troops swapped gifts,chatted and even played football on no mans land......hence the song title.

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over a year ago

"I watched the documentary on bbc4 on the album rumours.

Nearly every single song was about one or the others infidelities and sometimes with other band members

It's what makes it such a perfect album.

lol.... It really was quite eye opening watching the doc and quite funny how you attach your own thoughts to something until you realise what it was wrote about"

Awesome album....true emotions behind every word of every song....and back together in full line-up and giving here next year...I got tickets ...yay!

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Alice .. Alice .. Who the fuck is Alice?

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" Alltogether Now by The Farm was inspired by the christmas truce on the western front in 1914 when the fighting stopped for up to several days in some places while german and british troops swapped gifts,chatted and even played football on no mans land......hence the song title."
. Never actually played a game. It was cancelled by the generals so the Germans just watched us having a kick about x

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By *ichaelsmyMan
over a year ago

douglas

" Alltogether Now by The Farm was inspired by the christmas truce on the western front in 1914 when the fighting stopped for up to several days in some places while german and british troops swapped gifts,chatted and even played football on no mans land......hence the song title.. Never actually played a game. It was cancelled by the generals so the Germans just watched us having a kick about x"

score was 3-2 to the Germans

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over a year ago

Brian May wrote the song 'no one but you' as tribute to Freddie Mercury.on the music video there was empty/half empty pint glasses on the piano as was normally the case when queen played live and Freddie would just have them there on his piano,

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" Alltogether Now by The Farm was inspired by the christmas truce on the western front in 1914 when the fighting stopped for up to several days in some places while german and british troops swapped gifts,chatted and even played football on no mans land......hence the song title.. Never actually played a game. It was cancelled by the generals so the Germans just watched us having a kick about x"

I stand corrected,a nice thought all the same x

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over a year ago

"Lucy in the sky with diamonds

And golden brown are about drugs

I always understood that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was a euphemism for LSD - certainly it was used as such in those circles.

Golden Brown refers to heroin, it is often, well, golden brown, frequently referred to as brown sugar, as the Stones knew well when they wrote the eponymous track, making it deliberately ambiguous "

I always thought Brown Sugar was about a plantation owner having sex with his slaves . Hence the line "brown sugar , how come you taste so good just like a black girl should"

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

" Alltogether Now by The Farm was inspired by the christmas truce on the western front in 1914 when the fighting stopped for up to several days in some places while german and british troops swapped gifts,chatted and even played football on no mans land......hence the song title.. Never actually played a game. It was cancelled by the generals so the Germans just watched us having a kick about x

score was 3-2 to the Germans"

It was 0-0 full time , 3-2 penalties

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