A Conversation for Ian Dury and the Blockheads' 'Reasons to Be Cheerful'
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Demon Drawer Posted Nov 13, 2002
Adrian Celentano an Italian Journalist with dedicated fan clubs on the net I may have solved that one.
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Demon Drawer Posted Nov 13, 2002
That's what I get for reading translated pages. He is actually a singer/songwriter and actor.
Got it sorted now.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Nov 13, 2002
I don't think it can be Blaise Pascal. To rhyme with Dali and Volare it has to be Pascali or Pascale (pronounced Pascal-ay). Blaise Pascal's name is never pronounced like this. I'm also dubious about Dimitri. There are loads of Dimitris, such as Dimitri Shostakovich.
"ba la ba la ba la" doesn't sound like Moonlight Sonata to me. That would be "ba la la ba la la".
You've left out a line just before Dominike Camel.
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Spiff Posted Nov 13, 2002
i tend to agree about Dimitri and Pascale (i?), especially 'our Blaise' - just doesn't fit... 
i was thinking it sounded like a double act - or a partnership...
actually, it sounds to me like ian's favourite Jewelers. 
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Demon Drawer Posted Nov 13, 2002
Can you confirm the jewellers bit Spiff
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Otto Fisch ("Stop analysing Strava.... and cut your hedge") Posted Nov 13, 2002
Joe Pascale???
Otto
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Demon Drawer Posted Nov 13, 2002
Gnomon which line before the camels.
PS good job I'm letting you lot thrash this out here I don't want to hear a peep of objection from you once I send it to peer review. 
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Demon Drawer Posted Nov 13, 2002
Otto he wasn't around when the song was written.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Nov 13, 2002
According to one website:
18-wheeler Scammels
I don't know what that means, except that it must be some sort of artic.
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Spiff Posted Nov 13, 2002
no, DD, sorry, the jewelers ref is just my over-active imagination, 
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Demon Drawer Posted Nov 13, 2002
OK Gnomon something to work with.
OK spiff it was worth me checking. A little more digging needed.
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Demon Drawer Posted Nov 13, 2002
Louis"REEKO"Meserole
Comedic Actor
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Demon Drawer Posted Nov 13, 2002
Rock Star. Member of Vanilla Fudge.
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Demon Drawer Posted Mar 15, 2003
Into Peer Review I think with this one know lads.
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Demon Drawer Posted Mar 15, 2003
I've settled on Dimitri Schostakowitsch and the Opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti its the easiest link to make.
Camels: found altenative lryics on a numbers of sites thumbing out the candels but have kept in reference to camels.
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Researcher 234233 Posted Jul 11, 2003
You don't think "Volare" is "Polari" do you? This is the gay slang immortalised by Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick in "Round the Horne" and would have been much appreciated by Dury as an east end boy and ex art student. Volare seems a bit tenuous.
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