Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"The Guns of Brixton" is a song by the English punk rock band the Clash, originally released on their 1979 album London Calling. It was written and sung by bassist Paul Simonon, who grew up in Brixton, South London. The song has a strong reggae influence, reflecting the culture of the area and the reggae gangster film The Harder They Come.
The word as we first heard it was super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus. [9] Dictionary.com meanwhile says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English." [10] The word contains 34 letters and 14 syllables.
By 1980, Wheatle was living in a social services hostel in Brixton, and he participated [clarification needed] in the 1981 Brixton riots and their aftermath. While serving his resulting sentence, [ clarification needed ] he read authors such as Chester Himes , Richard Wright , C. L. R. James and John Steinbeck .
"Garageland" is a song by English punk rock band The Clash featured as the final track for their 1977 debut album The Clash. The song was written by Joe Strummer as a response to music journalist Charles Shaar Murray, who, after a gig in 1976, wrote a review saying that they were "the kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately".
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist . The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a " libretto " and their writer, as a " librettist ".
The song spent four weeks at number-one on the UK Singles Chart in March 1990. [4] It was the seventh best-selling single of 1990 in the UK. [5] The single also made it to the top 10 in Austria (number two), Belgium, Greece (number two), Ireland, the Netherlands (number two), Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and West Germany.
Swift starts the song with the chorus that immediately makes her distaste for the subject of the song clear. “‘Cause, baby, now we got bad blood/ You know it used to be mad love/ So take a ...