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Special Duties was created in October 1977 by schoolfellows Steve Green (Aka Arrogant), Steve Norris (Aka Duty) and Nigel Baker. They were punks at school, but the idea of forming their own band came when they saw The Adverts in Colchester. The fact that the three schoolboys couldn't play and didn't own any instruments didn't discourage them.
Both songs were included in a compilation of Special Duties' singles which was released in 2000. [1] It was later re-recorded in 2006 to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust in memory of fan of the club, Emily Begg who had been suffering from leukemia and had died earlier that year aged fourteen. [ 2 ]
A remastered version of the full-length video was included on Garbage's 2007 greatest hits DVD Absolute Garbage, [6] and the original shorter edit made available as a digital download via online music services later the same year. [48] The full length video was made available to North American online music stores in 2010. [49]
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He served with the battalion in 1933. Assigned to "special duties", he has lectured at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Sinclair was in Barlinnie Prison's cooler for being drunk and disorderly one night in 1933. Barrow was a prisoner of war, and Sinclair belittles the experience – "officers' privileges and amateur dramatics".
Its lyrics refer to the cheap handguns popularly associated with the term Saturday night special, and associates them with impulsive violence.Each of the three verses presents a different example: a man shooting another man in bed with his cheating wife; a poker player killing his friend after accusing him of cheating; and accidentally shooting oneself while intoxicated.
The song has been covered by various artists, including: Michael Johnson, on his 1973 debut album There Is a Breeze; Iain Matthews, on his 1979 LP Stealin' Home; Barbra Streisand, on her Live in Concert 2006 album; John Pizzarelli, on his 2008 album With a Song in My Heart; by Billy Porter on his 2017 album The Soul of Richard Rodgers; and James Taylor, on his 2020 album American Standard.
The lyrics were added at a later date and the title changed. The song was then interpolated in the musical comedy An Artist's Model (1895). The song served as the regimental (quick) march of the Queen's Regiment from 1966 to 1992. [1]