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The Telegraph has a fluff piece on the worst rock lyrics of all time. Dunno about the worst, but there are some awful stuff in there. Amongst it all, the two tracks are on topic for us. It is Highway Star, and Rainbow’s Man on the Silver Mountain.

Anyone who loves the Ronnie James Dio-era Rainbow will know that the former singer from American rock band Elf (and future replacement for Ozzy in Black Sabbath) can make any old guff sound profound.

And he starts as he means to go on with the opening lines of track one, side one, of debut album Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, the band’s first single. “I’m a wheel, I’m a wheel/ I can roll, I can feel/ And you can’t stop me turning”, he bellows. Never intended to, Ronnie, but hey, roll on, man. Eat your heart out, Tufnel and St Hubbins.

Read more in The Telegraph.

FWIW, of all lyrics presented there, U2’s Get On Your Boots is winning the popular vote as the worst of the time of this writing: 229:14.

Thanks to Georgius Novicianus for the heads-up.

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