Like many great dramas it begins in medias res.
What is it that she has said as we join the song? It can't have been a direct reference to 'Lisa', that comes later - perhaps a suggestion though that he'd rather be with 'someone' else?
Ha! Changing the subject to be catty about her mother's hardly going to help, is it!
Did he see Lisa? Yes he saw Lisa. Is that why he's angry? He wasn't angry.
Lisa's life is in disarray. She still goes around as if she is always stumbling off a cliff. And yet...
Does he still want her?
(Why won't he give a straight answer.....?)
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Shurely a shoe-in for Best Worst record of all time.
Magnificent to sing, I can vouch, when you are very, very drunk.
Co-vocalist Denise Marsa, uncredited on the single and Top Of The Pops, now runs her own PR firm and 'writes original music for films and TV'.
Dean Friedman tours Britain in July.
Lisa's whereabouts are unknown.
Dean Friedman - 'Lucky Stars' (1978)
FOOTNOTE:
ReplyDeleteThe British band Half Man Half Biscuit recorded, in 1986, a song entitled "The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman", a claim Friedman considered improbable, as he was only seven years old when lyricist Nigel Blackwell was conceived. At the Edinburgh Festival 2003, The Scotsman newspaper arranged a get together between Dean and the band, in which he acknowledged that Blackwell had at least surmised right the underlying story in the song "Lucky Stars": "That guy Nigel was hip to the fact Lisa and I didn't just do lunch. You can't interpret a song that way unless you understand what it's about." It also transpired that Nigel Blackwell in fact had a copy of the rare "Rocking Chair" album on vinyl.
In 2009, Dean Friedman wrote a 'reply' called "Tale Of A Baker's Son", in which he firmly placed Nigel's parentage as being that of the local baker, posting it on Half Man Half Biscuit's MySpace site. The band mentioned it on their own website as "Dean Friedman's Revenge/Dean Friedman strikes back" (Wikipedia)
well aren't we the little professor with our footnotes and all...
ReplyDeleteand what i'd give to see singing this
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If ever you fancy taking the Denise part...
ReplyDeleteI heard it on dial-a-disc once (do they still do that) and his voice sounded even whinier down the phone..
ReplyDeleteHer's still sounded fab and smoky though
When did the market for these beardy/tachey chaps doing Woody Allen-meets-James Taylor( Gerad Kenny, Andrew Gould, Randy Edelman, Rupert Holmes)- over analysing everything in song start...
They were probably about 10 years younger than we are now, but seemed ancient back then
It were the 'taches! Just say no!
ReplyDeleteYes, love her voice on this.
I really liked this at the time.
ReplyDeleteDean Friedman was apparently 23 when he did this....god...
There is a compilation I'm never going to make and this is sitting alongside 'hello this is joanie' and 'clouds across the moon' and 'the pina colada song'.
So true! I always think of it with those too! 'Joanie' is on YouTube, but it's not as good as I remember it.
ReplyDeleteThey are all songs I think Leonard Cohen should cover. I think that would be utterly superb.
ReplyDeleteDo you think we could ask him to have a go at 'Car 67' by Driver 67 as well?
ReplyDeleteWhat, are you crazy?
ReplyDelete*GULP*
ReplyDeleteEr, that like .. isn't .. is it?
ReplyDeleteI. THINK. SO.
ReplyDeleteDean, how are things? Do you get fed up with people in Britain only remembering you for this? Is it the inevitable finale/encore or do you do it early on, just to get it out of the way?
ReplyDeleteHave you ever been to Paignton before? Try the crab sandwiches from the seafood cabin on the sea front just to the left of the theatre, but skip the rest of the place, it's a dump! Dx
Blimey!
ReplyDeleteErm, it's a fucking great song is that though Davy. We've always liked it.
Love it Dickie, love it.
ReplyDeleteDoes he get fed up? Yes he gets fed up.
ReplyDeleteGod I love the internet.
'Listen, hon, I know you're dumb, but thats o.k., you don't have to look so glum...'
ReplyDeleteyes, actually I do...as I've been humming that blinking tune ever since PM mentioned it...
Mrs Mondo! Here at The Ghost Of Electricity! And it's all thanks to Dean!
ReplyDeleteDo you feel flattered?
ReplyDeleteYes I feel flattered...
Aw, you're so sincere x
ReplyDeleteI guess Dean came in useful for something..
ReplyDeleteNice blog sir..great Rhoda post, I loved that programme! (The club penguin reference made me smile - it rings rather familiar at the moment!)
Has he gone now? Is it safe to come out? Just checked the website he looks better now than ever..
ReplyDeleteWaddya mean you're just saying that?
No I'm not just saying that
Are you sure you're not just saying that - Yes, I'm sure I'm not just saying that
*goes on like this until the tour ends*
Very suspicious - judging by his website the man has obviously been bewitched by squirrels. It doesn't bode well for the tour. I wonder if Earl will come along?
ReplyDelete'We're not as nice as we like to think we are.'
ReplyDeleteHow's tricks, Davy, o friend to the stars?
how the hell is anyone going to top this now - where do we go? what do we do?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to come clean and admit to really being Duke Ellington.
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