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Who is Ken Livingstone's favourite US politician?
Posted by mojoworking on 22 January 2012 - 12:02pm.
Why, it's Newt Gingrich, of course (boom, tish!)
What's the deal with American politicians? Their rhetoric may be rubbish, but their names are GREAT!
Newt Gingrich
Barack Obama
Reince Priebus
Saxby Chambliss
Orrin Hatch
Spiro Agnew
Chaka Fattah
There should be more of it.
OK, Spiro is no longer with us, but he’s immortalised in song by Frank Zappa (as is Orrin Hatch – the title of a guitar instrumental to be exact).
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Spiro Agnew also appeared
in The Ballad of Spiro Agnew written by Tom Paxton sung by John Denver.
The song goes
'I'll sing you a song of
Spiro Agnew
And all the things he's done ....'
The Ballad of Richard Nixon was even shorterbeing completely silent.
The Zappa song
was Titties & Beer
Frank is in conversation with The Devil (played by Terry Bozzio) and is offering to sell his soul for some, er, titties and beer.
The Devil replies:
Man, you can't fool me, you ain't that bad
I mean, you shoulda seen some of the souls that I had
Why, there was Milhous Nixon and Agnew, too
And both of those suckers was worse than you
And the Zappa guitar instrumental was titled Orrin Hatch On Skis
Spiro Agnew is an anagram...
...of grow a penis.
Spiro Agnew
is mentioned in Scott Walker's Jean The Machine.
We've Had A Few Here
Lembit Opik, for instance and, erm, John Smith.
Actually that's a whole other thread, isn't it?
British politicians in song. There are plenty about Thatcher, but how many others?
Keith Joseph gets a mention in JCC's Beasley Street
Wilson and Heath in George's Taxman
Disraeli Gears
There must be others? Churchill must have a few, surely?
Mr Wilson, Mr Heath..
in Taxman.
Shut up, Maudling in Monty Python (the still no sign of land sketch).
Ken!
Is the man that we all need
Ken is the leader of the GLC
Kate Bush's soundtrack to the Comic Strip's Hollywood version of the GLC saga. Not bad, actually.
Kangaroo Blues
Ted Heath gets a mention in Roy Harper's song Kangaroo Blues, along with Richard Nixon.
For those who haven't heard it (probably most of The Massive) the song is called Kangaroo Blues because of the refrain "feeling jumpy about society, I've got the Kangaroo Blues".
Whoever reviewed John Cale's album Slow Dazzle in Sounds when it was released back in 1975 was under the misapprehension that opening track, Mr Wilson, was about our then PM. How he related the lyrics:
"And you know it's true that Wales is not like California in any way
And when I listen to your music you're still thousands of miles away"
to the state of the British nation is difficult to fathom, to say nothing about how the quasi Beach Boys harmonies that permeate the song might just have given him a clue about the the song's real subject is beyond me.
Harold Wilson
or Harrassed Wilsod (as John Lennon in Spaniard in the works called him "Azue orl gnome, Harassed Wilsod won the General Ercction, with a very small marjorie over the Torchies").
plays violin in 'The Intro and the Outro' by the Bonzos (I did hear they wanted to say on the fiddle but were overruled).
The Kinks
'Mr Churchill Says' from Arthur is the only one comes immediately to mind.
Same album - She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina
He's a bought a hat like Anthony Eden,
Because it makes him feel like a lord
But he can't afford a Rolls or a Bentley
He has to have a second-hand Ford.
Can our government be competent?
Jimmy Carter says "Yes".
Nicholas Ridley Sez
... 45 by some interminable late 80s indie group.