Gary can write a mean, lean tune with concise, deep lyrics. But when he starts tapping those computer keyboard keys, well, did we really have to know EVERYTHING about his life? He only reaches his third birthday on page 147!
Three months I was at it, learning more about the Kemp brothers than I thought humanly possible and by the time they'd been through Bert Weedon's Play In A Day for 73 consecutive days I had just about had enough. I stood up from my seat in the train carriage, held the book aloft and shouted at the top of my voice "Tony Hadley is the greatest soul singer the world has ever produced!" and with palpable relief threw the book out of the open window just as we passed Millwall's football ground.
To cut a long story short I had truly lost my mind.
Isn't this the bloke who wrote "why do I find it so hard to write the next line".
ReplyDeleteThen he ran off with all the royalties the bastard.
and with palpable relief threw the book out of the open window just as we passed Millwall's football ground.
ReplyDeleteAren’t there fines in your country for that sort of thing?
Rog - He found it so hard because his first language is Martian.
ReplyDeleteMJ - They'll never catch me at that speed.
My favourite couplet is:
ReplyDelete"We made our love on wasteland,
And through the barricades"
You'd have to be careful, mind - especially if you were wearing a fishnet top and mesh kilt with matching detatchable sporran, as I am right now as it goes...
;)
Up the Irons!
xxx
Bob
If you'd bought two copies you could have thrown one out as you passed The Valley as well.
ReplyDeleteBob - The Kemp boys knew how to have fun together.
ReplyDeleteChristopher - I'm on the wrong line for The Valley. That's the line with the rough dusty builders.
I Know This Much. And it's too much evidently from Gary 'crap on' Kemp.
ReplyDeleteI thought that was David Byrne.
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