Tuesday, August 19, 2008

That Tune You've Heard A Million Times

It gets played at almost every professional sporting event, particulary basketball.
It sounds like a drunken bee buzzing a tune.
It's lyrics are anything but complicated.
You know what it is. It's that song where everybody goes "Hey!"
Only it's not called "Hey!" It's called "Rock 'N' Roll (Part 2)." Never mind the reasons.
But how many of you know who created it?
For decades, I've thought it was Electric Light Orchestra. I can't remember why. It does have some ELO qualities to it.
But the musician behind the tune is a British guy named Gary Glitter, who was kind of famous over there during the big glam era of the 1970s.
The only reason Glitter came to mind was because he was released today from a Vietnamese prison after serving about three years for "obscene acts with children," with the incident involving two girls, ages 10 and 11.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,405982,00.html

After reading the story, I looked him up on YouTube and found the "Hey!" song.
Glitter now wants to live in Hong Kong or Singapore instead of Britain. He should still be living in prison for a long time to come.
Although he was a star in Britain, kind of a David Bowie Light, the only splash he made in the United States was "Rock 'N' Roll (Part 2)," which hit the Top 10 here in the early 1970s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xd44PWZGzg

Here's Part 1, which is kind of Part 2 but with thought-provoking lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts78yHRyONg&feature=related

They're both annoying, and surely sports fans have grown tired of Part 2.
Hopefully the guy's star has faded forever, they'll pull the song from sporting events and we'll never be subjected to a Part 3.
Hey!

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