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10 Dec 09 - 06:02 PM (#2785721) Subject: england 1979 pop song query From: GUEST,biff I was staying in Kilburn at the time. The landlords always made us free breakfast and the radio would be playing. I remember a pop song that went "everyone hates you when you're number one" and something like "waiting for my friend to come over and we'll get high." This song was on the radio alot back then, fall of 79. A dumb pop song, but it was pretty and it stayed with me. Anyone know stats on this song, name and performers? |
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10 Dec 09 - 07:06 PM (#2785763) Subject: RE: england 1979 From: GUEST,Millindale The song is Living on an island by Status Quo. Never heard anything from Quo described as pretty before. |
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10 Dec 09 - 07:09 PM (#2785765) Subject: RE: england 1979 From: RTim Go look at the Hits by Years Web page: http://www.onlineweb.com/theones/1950_sheet.htm Tim Radford (By 1979 I was TOTALLY into folk music!!) |
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10 Dec 09 - 09:00 PM (#2785831) Subject: RE: england 1979 pop song query From: GUEST,biff the version of this song I heard was not a heavy metal song. It was lush with harmonies and yeah it was pretty. |
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10 Dec 09 - 10:44 PM (#2785870) Subject: RE: england 1979 pop song query From: GUEST Easy when you're number one, everybody say you're having fun Smile in front of the public eye, when you're body say you wanna die Living on an island, looking at another line Waiting for my friend to come and we'll get high Hugh he got a real nice place, Cruxie gonna be there soon And I just wanna see his face, I'm getting lonely in my empty room Living on an island, working on another line Waiting for my friend to come and we'll get high Passing time away in blue skies Thinking of the smile in her eyes Easy, it's easy Living on an island, oh boy we're having fun Living on an island, thinking about the things I've done Living on an island, searching for another light Waiting for my friend to come and we'll get high Waiting for my friend to come and we'll get high I said we're gonna get high Yeah we're gonna get high Gonna touch the sky You can find publishing details at http://www.cduniverse.com/lyrics.asp?id=12705297 |
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11 Dec 09 - 03:06 AM (#2785940) Subject: RE: england 1979 pop song query From: Smedley It was definitely Status Quo, and it was an attempt to diversify from their usual style into something more acoustic & melodic. It was one of their biggest hits but they still reverted to their usual rock default setting. |
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12 Dec 09 - 03:49 AM (#2786702) Subject: RE: england 1979 pop song query From: GUEST,Curtis I'm not sure it was an "attempt to diversify". I think they were proving a point, because they always had tracks on their albums that didn't conform to the 3-chord 12-bar stereotype. Case in point: Quo are of course probably best known for the hit 'Rockin' All Over the World' from 1977. That came from an album of the same name which contained, for the time, some quite original and inventive rock music, and yes, a couple of introspective slower songs. Shame more of these didn't see the light of day as singles. 'Living on an Island' was written by Rick Parfitt about the band's year as tax exiles. The island is Jersey in the Channel Islands, and 'Cruxie' (Alan Crux) was one of their managers at the time. Parfitt, by the way, was playing in London clubs with Alexis Korner as a teenager, playing chords you wouldn't necessarily associate with the Status Quo that has been incessantly (and ignorantly) derided as 3-chord morons for most of their career. They may have been an irrelevancy in rock and pop terms since about 1980, but there's no denying that they were a top-drawing act in Europe in the 1970s. |
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15 Dec 09 - 04:04 PM (#2789065) Subject: RE: england 1979 pop song query From: GUEST,biff thanks for info. good song good memory |
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15 Dec 09 - 04:24 PM (#2789081) Subject: RE: england 1979 pop song query From: Dave Roberts Another example of this kind of song by Quo was 'Rock & Roll' which, despite its title was a quiet, reflective and, yes, pretty song about the band's early days. |