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One big bang

An addendum to the recent series of classic Gillan clips, all restored and upscaled. This time it is M.A.D. as mimed on the Top of the Pops:

Thanks to steve4422 for the heads-up.



49 Comments to “One big bang”:

  1. 1
    MacGregor says:

    Just when we thought it was safe to venture back into the water. Ian Gillan’s hippy look, from this to the caveman with Black Sabbath. Well at least he didn’t don the leather and studs then. No wonder he cut his hair for the Deep Purple ’84 reunion. A tired song this one, never took to it. Not to worry. Sanity has been restored eh? Or should that be ‘normal service will be resumed as soon as possible’. Cheers.

  2. 2
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Waitaminnit … is that blind man we all see now shooting at the world, crying and there ain’t no sadder tale, or standing still on a hill? All very confusing and Ian with his obsession for sight-impaired people should perhaps have become an ophthalmologist.

    This was never a popular thing to say but mutually assured destruction is what kept the Cold War from turning hot (except in various proxy wars). It’s sad that we needed a concept as nihilist to keep both sides from doing something stupid, but so far no one seems to have come up with anything better.

    Never liked that number very much. Musically unadventurous and kinda lumbering. GILLAN could do better than that.

  3. 3
    Andrew says:

    The best Deep Purple offshoot by far

  4. 4
    Adel Faragalla says:

    Very complicated song so I really can’t get into the grove of it musically.
    If Bob Ezrin was in the studio with them could or would he has approved of the song structure.
    Simplicity is the key to enjoyment but only few managed to compose complicated songs with enjoyment on the eardrum.
    Holy Wars is a clear example.
    Peace ✌️

  5. 5
    Karin Verndal says:

    @2

    “Waitaminnit … is that blind man we all see now shooting at the world, crying and there ain’t no sadder tale, or standing still on a hill”

    Uwe, had the same thought!
    But maybe it is difficult to renew te lyrics completely – thinking about RatBatBlue and Rainbow’s All night long.

    It’s a cute song, but definitely not Gillan’s (the band!) best.

  6. 6
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Those descending harmonies in MAD have been done to death and were even in 1981 already an old hat.

    When I first heard it I thought “they can’t be serious about using those washed-out chords”. It sounds like a glorified rehearsal room jam.

  7. 7
    John says:

    The lyrics speak to the near inevitability of a nuclear war, perhaps more so than Rainbow’s “Can’t Happen Here”.
    Currently, the world has never been closer to a major nuclear confrontation as it is now… Russia, China, North Korea etc… So this song is a reminder.

    It’s an okay song, & definitely not as bad as Uwe made it out to be. I adored Ian’s screams! As for looking like a hippy, I think Ian’s look is more like that of a Native American tribal warrior, or perhaps a Biker. It’s a powerful image indeed.

  8. 8
    RB says:

    It seems I’m the only one on here that really loves this song, always been one of my favourites by Gillan.

  9. 9
    Karin Verndal says:

    @7

    “The lyrics speak to the near inevitability of a nuclear war, perhaps more so than Rainbow’s “Can’t Happen Here”.”

    Well, John, then it fits perfectly in the narrative in which I live in at the moment in Denmark.
    Apparently around 2 million Danes are deeply afraid of a WWlll!

    Have tried to ask very clever persons about their views, but so far no one have answered!
    Maybe there isn’t any answer…

    What really is a surprise to me is that all the songs that ought to concentrate on that, are missing!

    And to take a clue from the ‘forever-Disney-princess’ CN:
    It may all be much better tomorrow 😉

  10. 10
    HardRockPete says:

    Why all the bashing? It’s a good song. The chord progression is familiar, but you will find that in all good music and among most bands.

  11. 11
    Uwe Hornung says:

    For the avoidance of doubt: I really like GILLAN and they have done lots of cutting edge tracks, but MAD was never one of them.

    And Ian’s observations on world peace would not have qualified him for a senior position in the NATO strategy department, nuff said.

    When that song came out I was a lefty young man, 15 years younger than Ian, but even then I found his lyrics naive. Nuclear weapons have been used once in war since they were invented – in 1945 over Hiroshima/Nagasaki. Since then: not once. They have been a hugely disciplining factor for the last 75 years at keeping international peace. I dare anyone here to name me one other weapon IN THE HISTORY OF MAN that hasn’t been used again even 75 years after its initial invention and first deployment (where it ended WWII within days if I may remind you). If that isn’t a deterrent track record, I don’t know what is. All that I knew already in 1981 because – as some of you might have noticed – I take an avid interest in politics and military history. So forgive me as filing Ian’s lyrics in MAD under “well-intentioned, but ultimately insignificant hippie waffle”.

    You may now unleash your wrath, go for it! 😈

    Incidentally, I thought Sting’s lyrics to the similarly-themed “Russians”

    https://youtu.be/wHylQRVN2Qs

    0n a different level of observation to “blind men standing on hills very still”, but that is just me.

    https://youtu.be/3st-Hai1y54

  12. 12
    Uwe Hornung says:

    I miscalculated, it’s actually been 80 years since nuclear arms were last used in a conflict. That we need them at all to keep peace is of course lamentable, but they have a very good track record of fulfilling their main purpose, namely never to be used at all. Let’s keep it that way.

  13. 13
    Ole says:

    Well, the main requirements I have for a good rock song is a good singer. All bands Ian Gillan has played in has always had a singer with a great voice. 😅 What I mean is, if you have a fantastic band with a mediocre singer – I dont care to listen in. And I only check the lyrics if I like the song. So, I actually like MAD also. But never listen to the JLT Rainbow songs or The Who for that sakes.

  14. 14
    Steve says:

    The song was never actually on a studio album, I seem to remember it coming out around the same time as ‘ Future Shock ‘ but obviously before they released ‘ No laughing in heaven ‘ ..hence , Bernie being in the video , I seem to remember the single having a pretty cool little booklet with it when Ian had come up with a story between a Russian and an American discussing blowing each other up ! I can’t remember how it ended ? ..not very well I guess ! Lol
    I’m pretty sure the B side was ‘ The Malestrom ‘ …now, if you think they played Lucille fast …check that out …its insanely fast …almost punk !

    I dunno, I loved Gillan and I’m absolutely loving the new boxed set , brilliant value for money at £35 for all that music …lots of nostalgia I’m sure …but, they were a brilliant band …and so exciting!
    Check out the audience reaction at the Reading stuff …I’m not sure about Europe but they were really prolific and loved in the UK…perhaps that’s why John McCoy got so paranoid about the bands finances

  15. 15
    Steve says:

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDgOHxtS7G75M&playnext=1&si=QE5eiHJEGrqjO8GY

    Unchain your Brain ..live 1981

  16. 16
    MacGregor says:

    @ 13- it is all about the quality of the song, the composition and the arrangement plus the melody. Not just how good the singer may be. Bob Dylan springs to mind. Plus there are plenty of very good vocalists out there that are singing not very good songs. The mention of The Who, well each to their own, but you have mentioned one of the most prolific of songwriters there and a very respected quality lead vocalist too. We all have our own take on things and thankfully our own ears, but a good song is not what MAD is. Well to my ears and plenty of others also. Ian Gillan has been involved in some very ordinary songs throughout his career, just like any rock singer has. Each to their own eh?. Cheers.

  17. 17
    Max says:

    Artists tend to be naive about politics. Why not? It’s their jib to sell emotion, not in depth analysis. And MAD is a great example. Brought me goose pimples then, still does now.

  18. 18
    Uwe Hornung says:

    It was well-intentioned, I’ll give it that, but I prefer Ian lyrically with some bite as in Mary Long.

    I had that comic sleeve too (still do). Also remember MAD coming out around the time of Future Shock. But while the production on FS sounded chalkboard-screechy, MAD sounds muffled and low-fi, go figure.

    Ian can elevate a lot of songs with his voice, but some stuff is irretrievable. MAD is not among those – it’s not terrible just not a very well-honed composition along a somewhat tired chord progression with a cheap-sounding production and naive lyrics. But Ian puts his heart in it, and that is probably its saving grace.

  19. 19
    Karin Verndal says:

    @18

    “but I prefer Ian lyrically with some bite as in Mary Long.”

    Actually I remember Ian mentioning that ‘Mary Long’ was from the period where he was very young and had opinions about everything.
    Didn’t sound like he was particularly impressed with that song!

    (And now Uwe I have a feeling you’ll bring along 300.000 examples of Ian’s conclusions that proves me wrong and states the fact that Ian really loves this song, ‘Mary Long’ ☺️)

  20. 20
    MacGregor says:

    I very much like Mary Long as a song and also as a jab at the toffs.. Taking any hypocritical politicians on is always a good thing in my book. One of Ian’s better songs and why not highlight what needs to have the spotlight shining brightly onto the subject matter at hand. Cheers.

    Mary Long you’re not alone,
    But you’re a long way behind the times.
    What we do in full frontal view
    Is more honest than your cleaned up mind
    What I’m saying Mary Long is,
    If you can spare a minute;
    Go find your friend the porny lord
    Dig yourself a hole and jump in it.

  21. 21
    Uwe Hornung says:

    It’s alright to be opinionated when you’re as young as Ian was when he wrote in 1972. I liked the melody and the scathing lyrics which were actually about two people – Mary Whitehouse and Lord Longford

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pakenham,_7th_Earl_of_Longford

    it was kind of neat to create in poetic license one character out of the two of them.

    Not aware of any particular disdain on Ian’s side, the song reentered the set to rapturous welcome from fans in Mk VII’s 90s tours (before that it had only been played in 1973 on the final Mk II tours as the only song from WDWTWA to make the set, Ritchie refused the likewise accessible Woman From Tokyo. Ian has said, however, that the song ceased to be relevant at one point as Whitehouse and Pakenham faded into cultural ignominy, their causes and campaigning seemingly overtaken by time (sort of why Dylan gave up on playing Hurricane). That said, given what’s going on on the other side of the pond momentarily with the new administration’s culture war rollback, the song’s message isn’t so uncurrent at all, sadly so.

  22. 22
    Ole says:

    @16, I totally agree – this is of course subjective! Thank god! 🙂

  23. 23
    Steve says:

    Well, obviously, I’m biased but I think Gillan is a fantastic lyricist , it’s his ready wit that gets me ….how on earth does he come up with this stuff ?
    Songs like ” Are you Sure ” Anyone’s daughter, I thought no etc etc always brings a smile to my mouth .
    I remember Steve Morse saying about the incredible humour in his songs …I think that Daily Telegraph cryptic crossword has got a lot to answer for !

  24. 24
    Uwe Hornung says:

    IG stands head, shoulders & dandruff about any other hard/heavy rock lyricist ever.

  25. 25
    Karin Verndal says:

    @23

    “Well, obviously, I’m biased but I think Gillan is a fantastic lyricist..”

    Well, Steve, to be completely honest, you’re NOT biased! You are simply telling the truth! Fair and square 😃

    Ian is an amazing lyricist! And I do love ‘Mary Long’, I was simply quoting Ian, he seemed to think it was a song written in youthful arrogance.

    Do you know who also is an amazing lyricist? Dan Baird!
    I shared this beautiful song with a very close friend, take a listen, it’s phenomenal:

    https://youtu.be/nBEEVU7u5TE?si=RmU3dg2rwVMWubYg

  26. 26
    Steve says:

    Hi Karin
    Hope you’re good and the yodelling is going well!?
    I’ve listened to that link , thanks …and they’re a good band , I’m guessing they’re from the American south ( judging by the name ) …but, they don’t half sound like The Cult ( she sells sanctuary etc )

    I see Clem Burke has died today ( Blondies drummer ) …I’m quite sad about that as they were one of my favs ( he was an incredible drummer ) …in fact , if it wasn’t for Gillan going on Top of the Pops with ‘ Trouble ‘ …Blondie would have still been my favourite band

  27. 27
    Karin Verndal says:

    Btw:
    This is a fun read:

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/295396694924632/permalink/1372463080551316/?

  28. 28
    Max says:

    Ian’s lyrics get even better. While some, just some of them were rather mediocre (Rat Bat Blue anyone?) his lyrics from the reunion on are worth to be released as a book. Really great stuff.

    Dan Baird sure knows how to pen a song. There are many very good writers in the Americana genre. Especially compared to a lot of guys from the harder side of RnR.that keep repeating the same old same old over and over again.

  29. 29
    Karin Verndal says:

    @28

    “Rat Bat Blue” – yeah Max, I do acknowledge the lyrics in this one is somewhat under par, but man the music is beautiful 😍
    The rythm is breathtaking 🤩
    And if I’m allowed to say this: ohh man Ian’s voice is nice 😃

  30. 30
    Karin Verndal says:

    @26

    The yodelling is going very well, thanks 😆😆
    My twirling with the drumstick however is still lacking some finesse and elegance 🤭 (Mick Tucker, Sweet (whom I desperately trying to imitate) would actually rotate in his too early grave could he observe my lacking in technique)
    See the brilliant drummer here:

    https://youtu.be/ysCA0cRXFLo?si=VdiZbb4sU4LDjVy7
    (Especially from 0:25 and forward 🥰)

    Yes, I love that song very much, it’s so longing and at the same time Dan Baird is coming of as a guy who really knows his yodelling (sorry, that was cheap 😅) no he is using his phenomenal voice differently depending on the song.

    Please check this:

    https://youtu.be/WonOudGMSdc?si=dD3JAJsOMAWndZkl

    Here he is using his falsetto so very very nice!

    Georgia Satellites is indeed from the southern of the US, but these days Dan Baird is solo. As far as I know, GS is still performing, or has been lately, with Rick (guitar) and Rick (bass), and Dan is busy with his band Homemade Sin.

    Re Clem Burke, I do have to mention that in the Danish news this morning, it was in fact mentioned that mr.Burke had died!
    I was amazed! 😃
    In a world where discussions of tarifs are raging on, companies don’t know what to do, someone wants to buy cold islands etc, I found it rather comforting that there still was time and patience to mention Clem had died.

  31. 31
    Karin Verndal says:

    @28

    Oh hi Max, again ☺️

    You do indeed have a good point here!
    Yes, Dan Baird is an exceptional lyricist.

    I guess you already know this one, but if you don’t, please take a listen to this gem 😍
    https://youtu.be/sGr6iXp0MEg?si=vFVWSF9Wgeq0g3j2

    I have a certain feeling that mr Uwe Hornung might suggest that Dan Baird is an illiterate (like he so wrongfully claimed Jeff Lynne to be 😉) but can we agree on the fact that Dan Baird is almost in the same league as Ian, when it comes to penning a song 😊
    (No not in the same league, but he is very very good, Ian is something else, isn’t he 🥰)

  32. 32
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Ok, I’ll take the bait or Baird, liebe Karin:

    I think he writes lyrics the way a country artist does, very rural and Americana, I’m sure he can read and write, but great poetry to me it ain’t. Even in 1986 it wasn’t ok to write something like this (in Every Picture Tells A Story):

    “On the Peking ferry, I was feeling merry
    Sailing on my way back here
    I fell in love with a slit-eyed lady
    By the light of an Eastern Moon”

    “Slit-eyed lady” (he uses the term more than once in the song), really? Maybe, if Dan’s vocabulary had been less drenched with racist stereotypes, he could have at least used “almond-eyed”. Trust Ian Gillan to have never used such a pejorative term. “My Slit-Eyed Woman” rather than “My Woman From Tokyo”? Fucking unimaginable.

    Now you can of course explain to me how Dan was young back then (in his early 20s to be exact) and that it was 1986 and that it’s all only music, but I can tell you that I was brought up in a way to know as early as the late 60s that “Schlitzauge”’was no way to describe someone of Asian ethnicity. That term reeks of WWII Western racism. To put that in a song is at best callous, at worst despicably racist.

    Does he still use the line when he sings that song today? Apparently it has been dropped from his live set, I can understand why. 😑

    Any other lyrics you want me to analyze for Dan Baird’s ethnic and language sensitivity?

  33. 33
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Re Clem:

    I liked what he did with his last project, the power pop quartet The Empty Hearts which also featured ex-Cars lead guitarero Elliot Easton:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc1DlAKPo_s

    Rest in paradiddles, Clem.

    PS: And who can forget Chequered Past, the short-lived 80s ‘supergroup’ consisting of ex-Blondie, Iggy Pop and Sex Pistols members? The closest Clem came to drumming real hard rock, with Purple Records alumni Michael Des Barres as the front man:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFuGYNDk4Jc

    [He of Silverhead

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MACVaU-2whQ

    and Detective notoriety if not exactly fame:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMvD9sFzXf4 ]

  34. 34
    Karin Verndal says:

    @32

    “Any other lyrics you want me to analyze for Dan Baird’s ethnic and language sensitivity?” – yeah several!

    Dan was indeed very young, but thinking of how he has matured, I find the early songs so innocent (even misunderstood descriptions are innocent, when the heart is pure! I am loosing my empathy when I clearly can see the lyrics is too programmed to fit in these days narrative! Just like the Eskimo-ice cream in Greenland! No one in their right mind thought of insulting the Inuits by naming the ice cream that name! Just like Dan here, I am pretty sure he never would have insulted anyone with these words. )

    If a lyricist is thinking too much about stereotypes, and are planning every word to be acceptable, the immediacy disappears up in thin air.

    Let me use this as an example to pure innocence:
    Eric had just started at school! After the first week his mum asked him if he had got any new friends. ‘Ohhh yeah’, Eric said, ‘and I have found my twin brother’!
    Eric’s mum knew there was no twin brother, so she asked with a big smile: ‘oh a twin you say, well why don’t you invite him to a play date this weekend?’
    Eric invited his new best friend and alleged twin-brother, and his mum was bursting with pride when she saw the ‘twin’!
    You see, Eric was Caucasian, so was his parents, and his new best friend was as dark as can be! But Eric didn’t see that! He was innocent and pure in his heart! He saw his new best friend with the eyes of his heart and no one can convince me that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry has lived in vain 😍

    That, my dear friend, is innocence in its purest form!

    It’s the ‘grown ups’ in the world that are ruining the innocence!

    And ok, now pour all the ugliest words over my sinful head, calling me all the bad names in the world! 🤡

  35. 35
    Max says:

    @32 @31

    Well, Every Picture Tells a Story is of course the Rod Stewart classic and wasn’t written by Dan Baird.
    Plus – as is often the case with art – we should not confuse the artist with the character that he is helping to come alive.
    It is easy to believe that an English working class lad from the 60s thought and talked like this.
    Political correctness is more and more turning into cancel culture that doesn’t put a piece of art in its historic context. One in a Million by Guns& Roses is another example for a song where the singer got blamed for the charakter he’s playing. It’s almost like asking an actor of Emergency Room for medical treatment…

  36. 36
    Karin Verndal says:

    @35

    Sshhhh Max! I know that, you know that, but I was wondering how long time it would take our very own solicitor to figure it out 😄

    (Psst: wasn’t Steve Harley also writing this song?)

  37. 37
    Max says:

    Karin, Wikipedia credits Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood and I am tempted to believe that as Woody and Roddy were partners in crime back then. The album of the same title is well worth listening as are all of Rod Stewart’s records up to the late 70s when things started to get very successful but less impressing. Stuff like Mandolin Wind, Reason to Believe, Maggie Mae and most of all Handbags and Gladrags and some more are timeless classics IMHO.

  38. 38
    Uwe Hornung says:

    Where to start?

    The solicitor was indeed of the false opinion that the Georgia Satellites song “Every Picture Tells A Story” and the Rod Stewart track (I was aware of) were two different songs that coincidentally shared the same title.

    He was misled by Karin’s statement @31

    “You do indeed have a good point here!
    Yes, Dan Baird is an exceptional lyricist.

    I guess you already know this one, but if you don’t, please take a listen to this gem 😍

    https://youtu.be/sGr6iXp0MEg?si=vFVWSF9Wgeq0g3j2

    which he assumed to link a song to which Dan Baird had actually written the lyrics – why link a song to prove someone is a good lyricist if it is not written by him? And no, I did not recognize Rod’s song from the Georgia Satellites cover – that is how terribly hamfisted their rendition is. Awful.

    So Rod (and maybe Ron Wood as the co-writer) is/are to blame for “slit-eyed lady”. In 1971, when the song was written (as opposed to 1986 as I wrongly assumed), that was perhaps still BARELY tolerable and given that Rod had a thing for Asian bassists – Tetsu Yamauchi in The Faces

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iGqYqDbcdw

    and Phil Chen in his solo band

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHcjjxYbgNM

    which he hopefully both did not call “slit-eye” -, he is herewith forgiven.

    And Max, I’m with you on the character argument, of course you can write a song wherein a character uses a pejorative term like Dylan did in Hurricane,

    “All of Rubin’s cards were marked in advance
    The trial was a pig-circus, he never had a chance
    The judge made Rubin’s witnesses drunkards from the slums
    To the white folks who watched, he was a revolutionary bum

    And for the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
    No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
    And though they could not produce the gun
    The D.A. said he was the one who did the deed
    And the all-white jury agreed”

    but Every Picture Tells The Story is supposed to be semi-autobiographical.

    I’m way too low-pc myself and like to mess around with taboos too much to ever have supported cancel culture, but slit-eye/Schlitzauge was – much like “yellow monkey” – never an ok term.

    But Dan Baird is herewith acquitted.

  39. 39
    Karin Verndal says:

    @37

    https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=the%20georgia%20satellites%20every%20picture%20tells%20a%20story%20lyrics&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#ebo=1

    Max, I hope the link is functioning 😊
    When I looked up the lyrics for ‘Every picture tells a story’, at the bottom of the text it does say Ronald David Wood and Steve Harley as lyricists.

    But never mind… the fun thing is that Uwe was led astray 😄

  40. 40
    Karin Verndal says:

    @38

    “He was misled by Karin’s statement @31”

    Sorry Uwe 😞
    I promise I will never deliberately mislead you again 👐🏼
    But you see, I was deadly tired, and I can never win against you in a battle of wits, not even when I’m bright-eyed and bushy-tailed ☺️
    So I have to be sneaky, which is an awful thing to do 🫣

    Btw: you do know that this one:

    https://youtu.be/r0uSLM8ndYM?si=aWheYyw0WDzuWlSt

    Is written by a Beatle, also known as Ringo Star? 😉

  41. 41
    Uwe Hornung says:

    “But never mind… the fun thing is that Uwe was led astray 😄”

    I am for the immediate reintroduction of thorough thermal treatment

    🔥 🧙‍♀️🔥

    of all convicted witches in the Kingdom of Denmark!

  42. 42
    Karin Verndal says:

    @41
    😂🤣

    I’ll even fetch the matches for you 🔥🔥🥰

  43. 43
    Uwe Hornung says:

    As Ian has long said, we really need Vincent Price back again, the man was fearlessly committed to his holy mission …

    https://youtu.be/t5V_JCO9IRg?si=S6P3YZfRa4frGCTo

    Reassuringly, the local populace in the more rural parts of Denmark still seems to have a sound appreciation for the good old-fashioned deterrence emanating from a proper heksejagt!

    https://youtu.be/vskmrpPERk0

    That is something we can build on.

  44. 44
    Max says:

    Uwe, I wonder if Lindenberg, Niedecken and others will cancel some of their older stuff. Some of them were always busy being avantgarde lefties, so … (“da wurd’ manche Nejer blass, von dem, wat unsre Jupp so alles druff hat…”). Die Ärzte haben es ja schon getan.

    And of course I grew up too knowing that ‘Schlitzauge’ is by no means acceptable. But I think it’s the character in the song that uses the term. And even if it isn’t – Rock’n’Roll doesn’t have to translate in Neat’n’Clean.

  45. 45
    Karin Verndal says:

    @43

    “Reassuringly, the local populace in the more rural parts of Denmark”
    – oh no no no! Not only in the rural parts! This is taking place all over Denmark!

    As far as I have understood, those poor women were sent to Bloksbjerg, placed in YOUR country Uwe!
    Be afraid……be very afraid 😜

  46. 46
    MacGregor says:

    So that is what the Danes get up to over there on their beaches. Even here in Tasmania that probably wouldn’t eventuate, but then again. A good way to keep warm though. Cheers.

  47. 47
    Karin Verndal says:

    @46

    “A good way to keep warm though. “

    Well MacGregor, maybe I ought to go that way, since I’m shivering in the very cold spring in Denmark 🥶
    Nice to have something to look forward to ☺️

  48. 48
    Karin Verndal says:

    @44

    “Rock’n’Roll doesn’t have to translate in Neat’n’Clean.”

    As a clever man once said: rock needs to be a bit dirty to function! 😊

  49. 49
    David White says:

    And there’s this bloke who looks so like a young Gillan.
    Great song too. Bear with it….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZRKkYB6bTs&list=RDJR6n23_fL3o&index=3

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