Misheard Lyrics part 143: Headlice and Pastry
Written: Nov 13 '00
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The English news presenter Sue Lawley was crestfallen. She'd just been told The Police were actually singing "So Lonely" and she wouldn't be the meat in their huge heaving popstar sandwich after all. Bang goes all that tantric sex, cocaine and rainforest malarkey - back to the headlines.
Or is that "headlice," as Norweigian clean-cut dullards A-ha seemed to be trilling on the title song to the Bond film 'The Living Daylights:'
"Early morning and the headlice fade away...."
Perhaps those crazy pop boys thought a nocturnal infestation of miniscule insects which feed off dead skin and blood from the scalp would really symbolise the death-defying adventures of a British secret service agent.
Also-ran C-list celebrity Cheryl Baker was also shaken from her bland kiddy-show slumber by the band REM. No stranger to the chicken-in-a-basket circuit herself, Cheryl, who had been one quarter of execrable health club house band Bucks Fizz, seemed to be getting a come-on from Michael Stipe. You can hear him, cooing away to her in the chorus of 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' - "Calling Cheryl Baker, calling Cheryl Baker...."
An amusing postcard arrived from Africa a couple of years ago. It was from a mate called Pete who was digging wells in an African village miles from anywhere. He'd taken a shortwave radio/ tape recorder and had managed to record the new Prodigy single 'Smack My B*tch Up' on a nearly-melting cassette, but the copy was so fuzzy that he'd gone round for the next month singing "Paint My Picture! Paint My Picture!" to bemused village elders. Around the same time I had just discovered one of The Fall's very finest albums, "Middle Age Revolt." It was a taped copy, though, with no tracklisting, and when I'd been wandering around for about a week gibbering "Pastry Don! Pastry Don!" in my best Mark E. Smith voice, I heard the song on John Peel's show on BBC Radio One and it turned out to be called 'Hey Student.' Friggin' Manchester accents....
There's an unmissably brilliant album called "Football Africa" on Peter Gabriel's Real World label. It's a collection of football songs from all over Africa, in a number of diverse styles, all by different stars of African music. The connection, though, remains unclear between African football and British gay synth-pop chart acts. For in one song, by Thomas Mapfumo, in praise of his country's undoubtedly fine football team, he has chosen as the words to his chorus "Hello Erasure! Hello Erasure!"
Strangely, in the very next song on the CD, the singers seem to be telling us "Bananas seem to love me more/ And when I sleep, I gas myself."
Gas, pastry and bananas. Apparently that was what Earth Wind and Fire were called before they were famous. Coincidence? I think not.
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