Rock & Roll Birthdays

injinji

injinji

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  • 1943 Randy Bachman, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (Guess Who - "American Woman"; Bachman-Turner Overdrive "Takin' Care Of Business"), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
 
injinji

injinji

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  • 1928 Koko Taylor [Cora Walton], American blues singer known as the "Queen of the Blues", born in Millington, Tennessee (d. 2009)
 
Amos Otis

Amos Otis

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injinji said:
Other than hearing them everywhere you went, I never listened to 10cc back when they were big.
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Me neither. The Original Soundtrack LP was in the house late 70s, but pretty much ignored. About a decade ago I'd been bugged for days about a song I couldn't quite remember, and finally found "One Night in Paris' on You Tube. I guess we had a poor stereo then, because I was blown away, especially when I found out they played it live in concerts, [also posted on YT[].

That started about a year of catching up; a wonderful journey. [ same thing happened with Gary Stewart ]. All four of those guys were ace songwriters and lead singers - Graham Gouldman had hits by the Yardbirds, Hollies, and Herman's Hermits, and Eric Stewart sang lead on the Mindbenders #1 'Groovy Kind of Love".

BTW, Paul Burgess was added as 2nd drummer on live shows to free up main drummer Kevin Godley for up front vocals on some songs, and became a permanent member of 10cc Mach II after Godley and Creme split.

This tune checks in at 8:40, and I'd be happy if it were twice as long. Done in 1975, many people believe this inspired Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

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The rest of the album, which was already complete, was released just weeks later.

The album's opening track, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme's "Une Nuit a Paris", is a nine-minute, multi-part "mini-operetta". In English, the title translates as "One Night in Paris" and the suite is divided into three separate parts:

  • Part 1 - One Night in Paris
  • Part 2 - The Same Night in Paris
  • Part 3 - Later That Same Night in Paris
Lyrically the song tells a tale of a British tourist in Paris, France. The locals attempt to con the man into buying items such as a Swiss watch and photographs. Eventually, the man ends up in the red-light district and although he feels ripped off, sleeps with a prostitute. Due to a series of complications, a policeman arrives on the scene and is shot dead.



 
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