9) Dark is The Night For All - A-Ha

10) if The Lights Go Out - Katie Melua


New Theme - Songs based on actual historical events

1) Hurricane - Bob Dylan

Surrounding the events and trial of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Who was falsely tried and imprisoned, mainly off the back of a racist police officer.

2) Belfast Child - Simple Minds

Refers to 1987, when a bomb planted by the IRA exploded during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, killing 11 people and injuring at least 63.

10) Green Light - Beyonce

(as in the replacement bulbs are more eco-friendly)

^ Whoops, a bit behind there Terrence!

No, 'Green Light' is a reference to the Great Traffic Light Massacre of West Hendred from 1958 when some 'amber gambler' piled into six cars, killing three adults, four children and a tortoise.

Or, I may have forgotten to press F5

Mr Smartypants

. . . back to real events

3) Lindy Comes to Town - Al Stewart

(Refers to Charles Lindbergh's epic flight (May 20/21 1927) in the Spirit Of St Louis, from Long Island, USA across the Atlantic to Paris, taking 33 and a half hours.)

4) The Rising - Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen wrote this in response to the September 11 attacks on America. The entire album deals with it in some way, often from the point of view of the victims.

5) Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2

As if it wasn't bad enough getting assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr has to suffer the ultimate indignity of being subjected to a Bono tribute song

6) Smoke on the Water ~ Deep Purple

The burning of Montreux Casino seen across Lake Geneva from their hotel room.

7) Zapata's Blood - Rage Against The Machine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata

8) Without Reason or Rhyme ~ Chumbawamba

About the killing of Harry Stanley – a painter and decorator who was fatally shot by police in controversial circumstances.

On 22 September 1999, he was returning home from the Alexandra Pub in South Hackney carrying, in a plastic bag, a table leg that had been repaired by his brother earlier that day. Someone had phoned the police to report ‘an Irishman with a gun wrapped in a bag’.

9) The Longest Day - Iron Maiden

Song about the D-Day invasion during World War II and the effect it had on the soldiers who fought that day.

10) Tiananmen Square ~ Chumbawamba

In 1989 the Chinese army stormed a mass demonstration in Tiananmen Square, killing several hundred people.

Famous painters – I think there will be enough.

1) Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) ~ Josh Groban

Vincent van Gogh

2) Constable Care - Frenzal Rhomb

John Constable

3) Andy Warhol ~ David Bowie

4) Pablo Picasso - David Bowie

He doesn't half like singing about painters eh?

5) Levi Stubbs Tears - Billy Bragg

George, the horsey painter

6) Pictures of Matchstickman ~ Status Quo

L. S. Lowrie

David Bowie studied art, his art teacher was Peter Frampton’s father.
Bowie’s paintings.

7) Cousin Kevin- The Who

The Pride Of Daventry no less

I didn't know that about Bowie - cheers Gemo


8) El Salvador - Athlete

Salvador Dali

Much more cultural

9) I'll Splatter You Like Jackson Pollock - Gwen Stacy