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24 March 2024 – Another Lazy Sunday Afternoon

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24 March 2024

A-wouldn’t it be nice to get on with me neighbors?
But they make it very clear they’ve got no room for ravers

They stop me from groovin’, they bang on me wall (what’s going on in there?)
They doing me crust in, it’s no good at all, ah

Lazy Sunday afternoon
I’ve got no mind to worry
I close my eyes and drift away

Here we all are sittin’ in a rainbow
Go blimey, hello, Mrs. Jones
How’s old Bert’s lumbago? (He mustn’t grumble)

I’ll sing you a song with no words and no tune
(Tweedle-dee bite) to sing in the khazi while you suss out the moon, oh yeah
Lazy Sunday afternoon, ah
I’ve got no mind to worry, ah
Close my eyes and drift away, ah

A-roo-dee-doo-dee-doo
A-roo-dee-doo-dee-die-day
A-roo-dee-doo-dee-dum
A-roo-dee-doo-dee-doo-dee

There’s no one to hear me
There’s nothing to say
And no one can stop me from feeling this way, yeah

Lazy Sunday afternoon
I’ve got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift away

Lazy Sunday afternoon
I’ve got no mind to worry
Close my eyes and drift
Close my mind and drift away
Close my eyes and drift away

22 March 1980 – THE JAM Scored Their First No 1 Hit Single In The UK With ‘GOING UNDERGROUND’ 44 Years Ago

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Top singles from the past

22 March 2024

Band: THE JAM
Single: GOING UNDERGROUND
A stand-alone one.

Released: 14 March 1980
Score: #1 in the UK on 22 March 1980 – 44 years ago
The band’s first No. 1 hit in the UK.

Note:  The song was actually released as a double A-side
with ‘Dreams of Children’, which originally was planned to be
the only A-side. After a mix-up at the pressing plant, the single
eventually became a double A-side, but radio stations played
the melodic ‘Going Underground’

Jam it up.

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THE JAM: Bio – Discography

20 March 1969 – This Day 55 Years Ago JOHN LENNON Married The Love Of His Live

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Top singles from the past

20 March 2024

Eternal rock & pop legend JOHN LENNON (1940-1980) married the love of his life
YOKO ONO (now 91) in Gibraltar today 55 years ago, on 20 March 1969. They spent
their honeymoon in Amsterdam, campaigning with a week-long Bed-In For Peace.

To all Yoko haters: time to go to the toilets.

THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO

Standing in the dock at Southampton
Trying to get to Holland or France
The man in the Mac said, “You’ve got to go back”
You know, they didn’t even give us a chance

Christ, you know it ain’t easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They’re gonna crucify me

Finally, made the plane into Paris
Honeymooning down by the Seine
Peter Brown called to say, “You can make it okay
You can get married in Gibraltar, near Spain”

Christ, you know it ain’t easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They’re gonna crucify me

Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton
Talking in our beds for a week
The news people said, “Say what you doing in bed”
I said, “We’re only trying to get us some peace”

Christ, you know it ain’t easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They’re gonna crucify me


Saving up your money for a rainy day
Giving all your clothes to charity
Last night the wife said, “Poor boy, when you’re dead
You don’t take, nothing with you but your soul”
Made a lightning trip to Vienna
Eating chocolate cake in a bag
The newspaper said, “She’s gone to his head
They look just like two gurus in drag”

Christ, you know it ain’t easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They’re gonna crucify me

Caught the early plane back to London
50 acorns tied in a sack
The men from the press said, “We wish you success
It’s good to have the both of you back”

Christ, you know it ain’t easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They’re gonna crucify me
The way things are going
They’re gonna crucify me

16 March 1965 – Last Time For THE ROLLING STONES

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16 March 2024

Today 58 years ago, on 16 March 1965, imperishable rock icons THE ROLLING STONES scored their third number-one hit in their home country (UK) with rad rocker THE LAST TIME with that awesome Keef riff. It was the first No 1 credited to songwriters Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, nicknamed The Glimmer Twins. The song was recorded in California.

The resemblance with The Staple Singers‘ tune This May Be The Last Time was
pretty obvious, but no claim was filed. On the other hand, the money greedy former
Rolling Stones business lawyer Allen Klein, whose company ABKCO Records owns the rights to all 60s Stones music, sued English rock band The Verve for using samples of the Andrew Oldham Orchestra (the band’s young, but tremendously clever manager) recording of 
The Last Time for their mega-hit Bitter Sweet Symphony.

The Rolling Stones

The Staple Singers

The Andrew Oldham Orchestra

The Verve

NEW ORDER Had A BLUE MONDAY Today 41 Years Ago

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7 March 2024

Manchester‘s electro-pop-rock giants NEW ORDER released their most famous and
most successful single ever BLUE MONDAY 41 years ago today, on 7 March 1983
through iconic label Factory Records.

The single’s unique packaging was designed by Peter Saville and Brett Wickens.
It features a die-cut sleeve designed to resemble a 5+1⁄4-inch floppy disk. It cost
so much to produce that Factory Records actually lost money on each copy sold,
nobody expected Blue Monday to be a commercially successful record at all,
so nobody expected the cost to be an issue.

In the UK it has sold 1.16 million copies in all formats, including the 1988 and 1995
re-releases. Sales of the original 1983 12-inch release account for the bulk of the total,
at over 700,000 copies. It has more than 380 million streams, so far, on Spotify.

Bassist Peter Hook said afterward that the song was stolen from
the Donna Summer song “Our Love” a B-side that also appeared on
her Bad Girls album


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Boom boom boom.

How does it feel
When you treat me like you do.

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