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Red Angel Dragnet" was inspired by the January 1982 shooting death of Frank Melvin, a New York member of the Guardian Angels. [ 25 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] The song quotes Martin Scorsese 's 1976 movie Taxi Driver , with Clash associate Kosmo Vinyl recording several lines of dialogue imitating the voice of main character Travis Bickle .
Eliot wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" between February 1910 and July or August 1911. Shortly after arriving in England to attend Merton College, Oxford in 1914, Eliot was introduced to American expatriate poet Ezra Pound, who instantly deemed Eliot "worth watching" and aided the start of Eliot's career.
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was set to music by Tony Garone and Scott Harris. The video was made by Tony Garone himself, with illustrations by Julian Peters. [10] [11] In the album I am Nothing, Versus Shade Collapse has produced a musical adaptation of the poem called "An Adaptation of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." [citation ...
The phrase "there will be time" occurs repeatedly in a section of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), and is often said to be an allusion to Marvell's poem. [10] Prufrock says that there will be time "for the yellow smoke that slides along the street", time "to murder and create", and time "for a hundred indecisions ...
"Rock the Casbah" is a song by the English punk rock band The Clash, released in 1982 as the second single from their fifth album, Combat Rock. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the US (their only top 10 single in that country) and, along with the track "Mustapha Dance", it also reached number eight on the dance chart.
T. S. Eliot cites Inferno, XXVII, 61–66, as an epigraph to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915). [15] Eliot cites heavily from and alludes to Dante in Prufrock and Other Observations (1917), Ara vus prec (1920), and The Waste Land (1922). [16] Begun in 1916, Ezra Pound's Cantos take the Comedy as a model. [16]
The Clash: The Clash Mikey Dread 1980 [9] " The Call Up" Sandinista! The Clash: The Clash Mikey Dread 1980 [9] "Can't Judge" (demo) Unreleased – – 1980 "Capital Radio One" Capital Radio: Joe Strummer Mick Jones Micky Foote: 1977 [11] " Capital Radio Two" The Cost of Living: Joe Strummer Mick Jones Bill Price: 1979 [12] "Car Jamming" Combat ...
The title and lyrics of the song reference the 1915 T. S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". [2] Lead vocalist Brad Roberts called it "a song about being afraid of getting old, which is a reflection of my very neurotic character". [3]