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Billy Bremner v Billy Bremner
Posted by marsonator on 23 October 2011 - 1:54am.
I was just wondering who people's favorite Billy Bremner is.
Personally I prefer the musical one and songs such as Girl's Talk although I do appreciate that the footballer captained his club and country and won many medals.
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And this one as well............
Always loved Billy's playing
He takes the second solo here from 2:22 and it's a blinder. Note Dave Edmunds' head whip round to give Billy a nod of approval/amazement for that audacious little run at 2:38.
Some lovely bass lines from Nick Lowe too and a heart-warming stuff-up from Robert Plant at the end.
Lovely
Rockpile were immense.
Chipshop
I'm pretty sure Billy also played the solo on "There's a guy works down the chipshop swears he's Elvis" which is stonking bit of guitar playing
Terrific performance
Both of them on fire there. And Terry Williams. What a great drummer.
And what about
Dave Edmunds' impossibly rare and desirable dot neck blonde 335 there? I once read an interview with him where he claimed not to know exactly how significant that guitar is.
Bet he doesn't use it onstage these days.
Unless he's got more than one similar guitar...
then the last time I saw Dave, it wasn't even in a case.
The footballer
for me. An absolute terrier. If only he hadn't missed from a few feet against Brazil.
Neil Young v Neil Young
Manchester City's legendary inside forward or Canada's musical maverick?
Keith Jarrett v Keith Jarrett
Welsh International point-scoring record making rugby union centre, or Jo Whiley's nemesis?
Eh?
We're judging between a top guitar player from one of the best live bands ever and a defender from "dirty Leeds". No contest.
I hadn't appreciated fully how much BB contributed to Rockpile until I (finally) saw the 1978/9 "Born Fighters" documentary about them last week. If any other fans have never seen it, then seek it out and download it.
He...
... was a midfielder - and the captain of Leeds United which won the League in 1974 and reached the European Cup Final in 1975. He also captained Scotland and played in the World Cup Finals in 1974. He was skillful, a tenacious tackler and could run all day. On the downside, he was a bit of a cunt (allegedly) but he, arguably, achieved a higher level of success in his chosen career than his namesake has in music - who is a brilliant guitarist nevertheless. It's a draw!
Allegedly
I don't think there's any need to use the word when speaking about the dead.
I do like the use of the word tenacious though, a bit like Leedsboy's use of committed.
With much respect to the guitar toting
axeman of Rockpile. There really is only one Billy Bremner. He was skilful, committed, loyal, a leader and never, ever shirked his responsibility. His ability is often overlooked because of his commitment but the balance was absolutely perfect for the role of ball winning midfielder because he would get the ball and then do something with it.
I could go on all day about Billy Bremner.
Not football
I hate football and I love Rockpile, so no contest.
But can anyone supply the verses to this?
Bremner's Volunteers.
So give us more of the Hampden Road
The sound is music to our ears
We will fight and win
we will never give is
We're Bremner's Volunteers.
(From the 1974 World Cup LP - written by Martin & Coulter).
good v evil
I loved the good Billy Bremner's version of Elvis Costello's 'Shatterproof'. The other one I remember as a particularly dirty player in a particularly dirty team. If not as dirty as Johnny Giles, he was certainly on a par with Norman Hunter or Jackie Charlton.
Particularly dirty?
Not really. Watch the 1970 cup final to see dirty Leeds being kicked around a football pitch. Football was different then. It wasn't just Leeds. But it seems to have become an accepted perception that they were the only ones.
football was dirtier then
There is a good deal of truth in what you say. A player could commit at least 2 very bad tackles before they were eventually booked. Something akin to attempted murder was needed for a sending off. A professional centre-half (as they were called in those days) of my acquaintance once told me that he always gave the opposing centre-forward "a gentle tap behind the knee" early in every game to "let him know he was there".
I'm reading a book on Clough & Revie currently
They were born within a few miles of each other. The details on tackles and sheer viciousness that seemed acceptable in the 50's and 60's is quite shocking compared to todays football. Clough's career ending injury was nasty and to make things worse, he was accused of 'coddling' before being carried off for 18 months of rehabilitation. No booking or sending of for the player who fouled him either.
Last time I saw Billy
he was walking along Hammersmith Broadway with a rolled-up copy of The Sun sticking out of his jacket pocket, Rab C. Nesbitt style.
You can take the boy out of Aberdeen, etc.
He started out playing in Lulu's Luvvers, you know.
Good and bad on both sides
Billy Bremner missed a sitter for Scotland against Brazil in The World Cup .They didn't qualify for the second round. Bad for the Scots. He played for Leeds too.
Billy Bremner missed a sitter for Scotland against Brazil in The World Cup.They didn't qualify for the second round. Good.For the English.
Scotland were the first team to not qualify on Goal difference and to quote Only a World Cup excuse "Scotland found a new way to lose."
Billy Bremner was in Rockpile-Good.
Billy Bremner made one of the worst singles i've ever heard. "Loud Music in Cars" Truly awful.
Always worth seeing again...
No no no no no!
Here's the best one backing some up and coming singer-songwriter - Billy extreme right, in Neil Innes' Fatso.
Michael Jackson vs Michael Jackson vs Michael Jackson
Former controller of BBC2, or presenter of "The Beer Hunter", or squeaky-voiced body-dismorphic prince of pop?
You decide.
Personally, I'd rather rely on
General Sir Michael Jackson, until recently, the head of the British Army.
Or
Michael Jackson who played for PNE.