: [Gelotte, Stromblad] (Instrumental)
: I come form a very large family. I've got five older sisters, yes, five. But it was wonderful to be the only boy in a family of girls. Life was paradise
: My name is of no importance. You see, I'm a product of a century which started at the height of class-conscious imperialism and ended with a society
: It was back to the drawing board, and I think it was out of frustration we wanted to sound as distorted as Chuck Berry's guitar on Memphis Tennessee
: I sat down and started to write a song on the old upright piano. I played these crude chords with my left hand and thumbed out a kind of a blues riff
: It was clear to everybody in the family that as a cripple I was a complete failure. I did no better at college, actually. I went to the Hornsey College
: Dad was a real party animal. He loved to go at the pub and have a singsong with his mates and drink as much stout as possible. All of his cronies used
: There was still a problem. We had to get management. You're nothing without management, are you? We were discovered playing in a pub by two very well
: They were soon joined by a third manager. This guy was amost as tall as they were. His name was Larry. And Larry spoke in a very slow deliberate way
: In the book X-Ray the decrepit old rock 'n' roll singer talks about this mystery girl he used to know when he was on the road. It's a girl he calls
: The phone rang, it was a call from Larry. "Hello, cock. Cock, it's time for the third single". If this is a flop, if the third single doesn't make
: I used to go down The Marquee Club where all these R & B bands were playing. It was like hearing Big Bill Broonzy with drums, but they were British
: And as I walked round those tidy streets I thought to myself "How can anybody be at all unhappy in such a perfect world?" How wrong I was! There's
Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you That is how I know you go on Far across the distance And spaces between us You have come to show you go
Are you optimistic 'bout the way things are going? No, I never ever think of it at all Don't you ever worry When you see what's going down? No, I try
Are you optimistic 'Bout the way things are going? No, I nver ever think of it at all Don't you ever worry When you see what's going down? No, I try
This is a great school. I don't care what anybody says. I mean it's not perfect, but like the people are really cool. Like the teachers and kids.
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