It Was Twenty Five Years Ago Today

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

... that ABBA's smashing Super Trouper was viciously removed from the Number 1 spot. Well not quite - but THINGS WERE PUT IN MOTION.

It took another week to get "Just Like Starting Over" subscribed to the shops. Only the brilliant xmo placing of granny-fave (the clue is in the song title) by "St Winifred's School Choir" managed to remove it after just one week! ahem, before the inevitable re-assault in quick succession of both the dreadful Imagine, and the follow up Woman. All the pain that Imagine can bring to the poptimists ear is nothing to the awful banality of Woman.

Coincidentally the following year is chock full of bloody marvellous number 1s.

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/popular_number1slist.html

Comments

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Yay for the StWSC! WhyOhWhy will no-one play it for me at Poptimism? :-(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Maybe next time.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Please don't! I bet he won't even dance to it.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

IMPORTANT POPTIMISTS NEWS: 6 Music are having "John Lennon Day" today. THIS IS OUR CHANCE to get The Cranberries' staggering tribute "I Just Shot John Lennon" played on the radio.

"Woman" is v.bad yes.

Those lyrics in full and SIC

[zenith.livejournal.com]

It was the fearful night of December 8th.
He was returning home from the studio late.
He had perseptively known that it wouldn't be nice.
Because in 1980, he paid the price.

John Lennon died. [X6]

With a Smith & Wesson 38,
John Lennon's life was no longer a debate.
He should have stayed at home,
He should have never cared,
And the man who took his life declared,

He said I just shot John Lennon.
He said I just shot John Lennon.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening night.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening night.

Ah, ah ah ah, ah...

I just shot John Lennon.
He said I just shot John Lennon.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening night.
What a sad and sorry and sickening sight.
What a sad and sorry and sickening night.

Ah, ah ah ah, ah...

Re: Those lyrics in full and SIC

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

With a Smith & Wesson 38,
John Lennon's life was no longer a debate

!!!! that is terrible