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The beret in popular music
Posted by Jed Clampett on 18 October 2011 - 9:14pm.
To celebrate France reaching the World Cup final (no hard feelings) maybe it is time to say hats off ... and berets on
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beret of the tiger
Bit tenuous
(Although they did appear on TOTP.)
And on a similar theme
Wonder if he's got
a switch in the back of his head to move his eyes left and right.
Beret
my heart at wounded knee
In tribute to Oklahoma
here is
A beret with a fridge on top.
Eric Carmen
and the rasp berets
My ding a ling
Chuck beret
Frank Spencer
"Early One Morning"
Too easy
Sean Moore rocks the UN Peacekeeper look
Either that or the Mr. Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man look.
They all look a bit pale, don't they?
.
Need to get out of their bedrooms
and take a walk in the fresh air and sunshine.
Billy Mackenzie
.....
And Claire Grogan in Gregory's Girl
I posted Frank Spencer
when I could have posted Billy, shame on me, real shame....
the boho dance
Rickie Lee Jones
Maybe
Strawberet fields?
It was never a good sign
when a US band had a member with a beret in the seventies. Many of you will disagree but my heart used to sink - it was like a statement of bohemianness imposed by the A&R guy (usually on the bass player)
Lest we forget....
...there's this outrageously camp reinvention (including beret) by Aussie prog-rock legend Lindsay Bjerre (Bjerret?!?), from 1977. Bjerre was formerly the mainman in Sydney prog-surf stars Taman Shud. Can we honestly think of a progressive-rock band name better than that? Thought not...
Perhaps Mojo or Shane P or Mousey or one of the boys diownunder can tell us how Lindsay's change of direction went down with the guys on the North Beaches back in the day? [Might the phrase "Ya blaaahdy pooftah!" have been heard?]
That all happened
before I came to Australia Colin.
All I know about Tamam Shud is that they released two pretty good and now unfeasibly collectable LPs, the second of which Goolutionites and the Real People used to change hands for upwards of two hundred quid.
A recent CD release has pegged that back a little, but it's still highly sought-after among prog collectors in Europe.
In case anyone doesn't recall what Tamam Shud sounded like...
...here they are, at their poppiest, in 1971. Bjerre with the interesting moustache:
Bere'fit
No regrets Joni
winner
...
What,
no Prince with Raspberry Beret? (The kind you find at a secondhand store)
the river-spanning Beret Across the Mersey
or retaining an enormous amount of body heat in midwinter, Here It Is, Beret Christmas
So
if a similarly hatted lead singer of Roxy Music got a job in a spoonerized chip shop, he'd be Fryin' Beret?
Admirable application of the old shoehorn there
:-)
Not so much 'shoehorn' as simply true
or ... beretsimilitude
Oh Captain,
My Captain.
Beret Manilow?
Or is that stretching it too far?
Miami Steve
Steven Van Zandt. Little Steven. Call him what you will.
Seen here far left with the E. Street Band
Beret-as-precursor-to-bandana, possibly hiding baldness.
He comes up in lots of threads, doesn't he?
The incomparable Thelonious Sphere Monk
Relax girls, he's married...
(Lindisfarne/Meet Me On The Corner).
Beret at 1:40
Simon Cowe
the exploding mattress of rock n' roll
Of...
...folk rock, surely?
Frank - "It Was A Beret Good Year"