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« Reply #120 on: 21:04:01, 25-08-2007 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 16:10:24, 25-08-2007
Hmm. It seems I've been under the misapprehension all these years that PMcC's English grammar was on a level with his songwriting skills as opposed to his prowess as an orchestral composer.
There's a difference?...

Quote from: richard barrett on 16:10:24, 25-08-2007
As for John Barry, let's please not forget the intro to "You Only Live Twice".
I can tell that you have a point here - do let us all into what it is!

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Alistair
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« Reply #121 on: 21:12:23, 25-08-2007 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 15:24:51, 25-08-2007
We've had Sting singing Dowland so why not Shirley Bassey?
Neat plug for the Welsh, Richard, but haven't you just answered your own question?!...

Quote from: richard barrett on 15:24:51, 25-08-2007
... and how about Emma Kirkby singing "Goldfinger"? (With His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornets of course.)
Brilliant! Record it, someone, for God's sake, before this wonderful idea gets lost in the mix! Ian - he who is apparently accused of late of being an arch-Royalist (and is it not amazing what accusations can become airborne on this forum?!) - might correct you to the effect that it would nowadays have to be "Her" Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts (two teas, please vicar) - although even he might leave it to me to comment on the extent or otherwise to which Her Majesty's Butt(s) Sag...(not that I could comment thereon, of course...)

I've long since thought that there ought (if only there were any justice in life) to be some kind of arrangement of You Only Live Twice for string trio by Schönberg who, as his own string trio informs us, actually did so...

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Alistair
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« Reply #122 on: 21:19:34, 25-08-2007 »
Pedant's corner here, but I've often thought that the title ought to have been You Live Only Twice, as that is surely the intended meaning.
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« Reply #123 on: 21:21:30, 25-08-2007 »
On the other hand I think that would require us all to perform a correspondingly pedantic permutation of the phrase 'you only live once', no? Wink
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Chafing Dish
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« Reply #124 on: 21:24:04, 25-08-2007 »
MabelJane's avatar says

You only nine times live. Meow!

Seconded by the avatars of Soundwave, George Garnett, and increpatio.
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« Reply #125 on: 21:32:15, 25-08-2007 »
Quote from: Chafing Dish on 21:24:04, 25-08-2007
MabelJane's avatar says

You only nine times live. Meow!

Seconded by the avatars of Soundwave, George Garnett, and increpatio.
No, no - "you live twice only - the first time IS a rehearsal"...

(...unless Sir Richard Roderick Barrett tells us that this may be all very well but it's different in Wales...)

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Alistair (the interloping furriner)
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« Reply #126 on: 21:41:36, 25-08-2007 »
Quote from: ahinton on 21:12:23, 25-08-2007
Ian - he who is apparently accused of late of being an arch-Royalist (and is it not amazing what accusations can become airborne on this forum?!)
All comes from spending too much time with those corgis. But you have to admit that it's hard not become overcome by emotion when watching the Trooping of the Colour?

(moves on to talk about modern architecture in the Grumpy Old Rant Room)
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« Reply #127 on: 21:56:18, 25-08-2007 »
Quote from: Ian Pace on 21:41:36, 25-08-2007
Quote from: ahinton on 21:12:23, 25-08-2007
Ian - he who is apparently accused of late of being an arch-Royalist (and is it not amazing what accusations can become airborne on this forum?!)
All comes from spending too much time with those corgis.
The only corgis I've ever spent any time with are registered gas engineers.

Quote from: Ian Pace on 21:41:36, 25-08-2007
But you have to admit that it's hard not become overcome by emotion when watching the Trooping of the Colour?
I have to admit nothing of the kind, since whilst I do of course understand what it is to be overcome by emotion, I have never watched the Trooping of the Colour so, as the late Ia(i)n Richardson used famously to say, "I couldn't possibly comment".

What any of this has to do with the Big Mac, however, I do not know; does he have corgis (apart from Heather Mills, that is)? - do they ever Troop the Colour in Lime Street? - does Sir Thingummaccy have the faintest idea of what it really is to be overcome by genuine emotion? Answers on a left-handed bass guitar - er, no - please, no answers at all...

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Alistair
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« Reply #128 on: 21:44:02, 28-08-2007 »
Quote from: richard barrett on 16:10:24, 25-08-2007
As for John Barry, let's please not forget the intro to "You Only Live Twice".

Aaargh! I meant YoLT, not that Diamonds nonsense. Wonderful. Dah-didi-dah-didi-dah-dah (Cmaj), Dah-didi-dah-didi-dah-dah (repeated a tone lower over C-pedal and Bb harmony).

(Sorry to bump up a dead thread.)  Sad
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« Reply #129 on: 00:26:19, 29-08-2007 »
Quote from: martle on 21:44:02, 28-08-2007

(Sorry to bump up a dead thread.)  Sad

I didn't know Paul McCartney was in the Grateful Dead.

Say, did you see the headline when Jerry Garcia passed away? "Head Dead Head Dead"
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« Reply #130 on: 02:02:23, 02-09-2007 »
Quote from: Chafing Dish on 00:26:19, 29-08-2007
I didn't know Paul McCartney was in the Grateful Dead.
Well, perhaps nor does Paul McCartney.
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