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From the Weekend OZ
It‘s time for our yearly check in with Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire, which was released 32 years ago on Monday. Of the 59 people the song name-checks, just five are still alive — the Queen, Brigitte Bardot, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan, and Bernhard Goetz.
How many remember Bernie Goetz??
And of course William Joel himself is till kicking.
Mick
 
I love this song and in particular this couple singing it. It was written by Serge Gainsbourg, who was a brilliant French songwriter (died 1991), very underrated but did have some notoriety for his hit "je t'aime moi non plus" which was banned in many countries. If you don't know French it may seem just like a love song, but check out the lyrics - it is about a man asking his friend Elisa to search his hair for lice.

I can't remember what it was called, but there was a movie about his life recently on SBS that was also very enjoyable. He had flings with BB and Jane Birkin.

 
I love this song and in particular this couple singing it. It was written by Serge Gainsbourg, who was a brilliant French songwriter (died 1991), very underrated but did have some notoriety for his hit "je t'aime moi non plus" which was banned in many countries. If you don't know French it may seem just like a love song, but check out the lyrics - it is about a man asking his friend Elisa to search his hair for lice.

I can't remember what it was called, but there was a movie about his life recently on SBS that was also very enjoyable. He had flings with BB and Jane Birkin.


The movie was simply called Gainsbourg. Worth watching.
 
coincidental name from last post. .... came across this as the next feed after Raising Arizona clip on the Oct 2021 comp thread ( no lie )

and it is really good. Very innovative video, great banjo riff

 

Florrie Forde (16 August 1875 -- 18 April 1940), born Flora May Augusta Flannagan, was an Australian popular singer and entertainer. She was one of the greatest stars of the early 20th century music hall. Forde was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia in 1875, the sixth of the eight children of Lott Flannagan and Phoebe - who also had two children from a prior marriage. At the age of sixteen, she ran away from home to appear on the Sydney music hall stage, adopting the surname of her stepfather. At the age of 21 in 1897, she left for London, and on August Bank Holiday 1897, she made her first appearances in London at three music halls — the South London Palace, the Pavilion and the Oxford — in the course of one evening. She became an immediate star, making the first of her many sound recordings in 1903 and making 700 individual recordings by 1936.
 
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