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Billy Thorpe

February 28, 2007 on 3:47 pm | In Uncategorized |

I confess that if anybody had asked me I would have said I thought Billy Thorpe was already dead … he seemed to belong so thoroughly to the ‘live fast die young’ culture of Johnny O’Keefe and Bon Scott. Then again Jimmy Barnes is still going strong so what would I know?

Anyway Billy’s dead now. The prime minister issued a statement saying so, thus ensuring that any news story about the death will give an obligatory hat tip to J-Ho. Has the man no shame at all? Yeah silly question, I know. But it’s getting to the stage where anyone who dies without Howard giving the event some public acknowledgement will feel highly offended. Or they would if they were still alive … you know what I mean.

But enough being snarky about Howard, I want to share with you the lyrics of one of the songs that launched Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs on their stellar career. Here they are:

Mashed potato yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Mashed potato yeah

Yeah

Yeah

(Yeah well you get the idea)

Do they write lyrics like that any more? No dammit, it’s all emo kids crying in the corner and the world’s the poorer for it.

….

(PS I was gunna help these guys out but screw ‘em, let them do their own research.)