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Bugger that, what about Charge of the Light Brigade, or some happy, cheery oompah oompah music to send me out.

It's disco for me. With pallbearers on roller skates.

I've been busting for the AFL to do something embarrassingly pro-Victorian so I can quote Victoria by the Kinks in my blog, but the situation has never really presented itself. Bloody AFL.

So you're a Village Green man then, Tony?

My Jules is going to play "Che faro Euridice" by Gluck. Not quite right, seeing I'm Orfeo and I'm the one that's dead, but still pretty classy, eh?

Tim: Oompah. Oompah. You in lederhosen somehow looks right.

Wickers: Darwin - the New Orleans of Straya.

Carna: Very much a Something Else, Village Green, Arthur, Lola, Muswell Hillbillies kind of bloke. Chuck in Days, Sunny Afternoon, and plenty others.

Os: Che faro Euridice? To quote Windsor Davies "Well, LAA DEE DAA, Mr gunner Graham."

Hmmm, all good suggestions but I'd go with a song that was a constant on the cartridge player in our '74 volvo - Nana Mouskouri's 'Turn on the Sun'.

8-Track, classy.

Superb!

Well theres the obvious "He Ain't Heavy..." and "Brother brother..there's too many of us dying....."

But I'd suggest you email back that sibling of yours and say "Sorry old son but it's this song or nuffink.."


"People get the wrong impression with Martin
I know he doesn't mix much but he's no snob
The weekend I got out of remand home
He'd got Uncle Ruby to find me this job
And back at my Nan's he'd repainted my room
And bought me a brand new carpet
There was all me old records and books on a shelf
And a secondhand telly from the market
You can get a bit hard when you've been inside
But I hugged the old bastard and I almost cried

Cos no-one ever had a brother like Martin
No-one ever had a brother like him

I walked out onto the stage and started to sing...

Peter Sellars asked to have played at his funeral one song he really hated - "In The Mood" by Glen Miller, perhaps so he could give Spike and Harry one last laugh.

"I'm Not Like Everyone Else" would be a good Kinks funeral song.

Incidentally Ray Davies has just released his first ever solo album.

I'd want the Benny Hill theme played at my funeral, especially if I knew that elderly bald men would be present.

Ideal sendoff: Fancy dress funeral and open bar while Sam & Dave's 'Hold On I'm Coming' plays on continuous loop, casket of white plaster so friends can write messages on it like on a broken arm, and with the Mastercard symbol on the casket stern and a sign saying 'This funeral sponsored by the Commonwealth Bank'.

AGB: I hope your brother returns safe and sober from The Hunter.

Ideal sendoff: Fancy dress funeral and open bar while Sam & Dave's 'Hold On I'm Coming' plays on continuous loop, casket of white plaster so friends can write messages on it like on a broken arm, and with the Mastercard symbol on the casket stern and a sign saying 'This funeral sponsored by the Commonwealth Bank'.

AGB: I hope your brother returns safe and sober from The Hunter.

Dunno about Martin, FX, but I'd play side 2 of

Power in the Darkness at my wake.

A fabulous opening, Flutey, but it's the end of that first verse that gets me every time.

My big day, it was the biggest day of my life.
It was the summit of my long career,
But I felt so down, and I drank too much beer,
And my manager said that I should not appear.
I walked out onto the stage and started to speak.
The first night I've missed for a couple of years,
I explained to the crowed and they started to jeer,
And just when I wanted no one to be there
.
.
.
All of my friends were therrreee.

Perfick.

He's back now, Brownie.

A tired blogger, home from a hard day at the coal face, corrects his HTML mistakes in the comments and puts on a record.

Ahhh, that's better.

Tones - so its not "Glad to be Gay' or "2-4-6-8"?

I'm guessing Grey Cortina.

Winter of '79
Man You never Saw
Better Decide Which Side You're On
Power In The Darkness

I remember seeing TRB on The Old Grey Whistle Test about twenty five years ago, maybe longer. Good show, that.

There were some cretins in, I think, Liverpool, who asked for Everything I Do I Do It For You played at their father's funeral. This was the theme from a Robin Hood film, and the church played Robin Hood, Robin Hood, Riding Through The Glen by mistake. I think they even went to court over it.

It's funny how people get upset about things like that. Were it me I'd be laughing like an idiot. I once went to a wedding where the groom had his name spelled wrong on the dinner menu. There was hell to pay. Surely a misprinted menu has the better value.

People Who Died by Jim Carroll. I like the in-your-face delivery. Would love to see the faces of the mourners when that cranks up.

The lyrics are a bit of a laff. First time I’ve ever read them…

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thebasketballdiaries/peoplewhodied.htm

"Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?"
But Tony couldn't fly, Tony died.

Let that be a warning to you, Big Tone.

Remind me not to visit the Boy's Club roof.

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