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To: KingLudd
I’m sure that not even the 10 people who have ever heard the song will give a shit.

The song was a Top 5 hit in the UK and really is Anglo-centric so it probably has no audience beyond the UK.

As much of his early work, "Oliver's Army" is satire about a right-wing paramilitary group. Oddly enough, the person quoted in the song is angry about non-whites immigrating to Britain and slowly taking over. (Hmm, guess they were right).

But Elvis then dismisses their rough talk:

But there's no danger. It's a professional career.
Though it can be arranged with just a word in Mr. Churchill's ear
If you're out of luck or out of work
We can send you to Johannesburg.

It's a clever little send-up but I can understand not wanting to get tagged by the cancel culture.

I just hope the feminists don't go after "Pump It Up".

22 posted on 01/11/2022 6:25:57 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: OrangeHoof
The song was a Top 5 hit in the UK and really is Anglo-centric so it probably has no audience beyond the UK.

The video was in heavy rotation on U.S. MTV in its early years. Americans don't have to understand all of the lyrics to like a catchy tune.
24 posted on 01/11/2022 6:31:01 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: OrangeHoof

He’s a leftist first and foremost so none of this is a surprise. I saw him in concert back in his prime a couple of times and his shows were good energetic fun. That said apart from the odd bit of news like this I haven’t thought about him in decades. I’ve pretty much shut down left wing entertainment for myself so I won’t ever be attending a current self censored show by Declan.


27 posted on 01/11/2022 6:45:20 PM PST by xp38
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To: OrangeHoof
I just hope the feminists don't go after "Pump It Up".

Grinning bigtime! :)

43 posted on 01/11/2022 7:51:25 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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