The sun’s shining, you’re bombing around in your motor (or a cab, if you’ve been hitting the cider), and you need some classic rock. You select Toto’s “Hold The Line”. You sing along to both the words and the riffs. You recall the video, with the slightly chubby singer and the frankly appalling hairstyles. For three minutes and fifty-eight seconds, all is right with the world.
Then it ends 
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In a taxi yesterday, going to the airport to drop someone off (never mind who, you nosy parkers), a truly wonderful sound seeped from the tinny taxi speaker. It was the sound of thunderous thighs strutting around a studio and a voice crackling about being a saucy dancer. Of course, I’m talking about the big hair croon of Tina Turner (in the 80s) singing ‘Private Dancer’. Check out the ballet-dancing sailor boy in the video (you don’t get to say that very often do you?)! Pay tribute to Tina by doing her walk around the office. I dare you.
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Journeying in a taxi is like being in a time machine, taking you back to a time when all music was well-crafted and inoffensive. And smelled a bit like old fag-ends and B.O. One track which is a favourite of the cabbie is the syrupy pop of Paul Simon circa Gracelands. The biggest hit from that LP was ‘You Can Call Me Al‘, which starred Ladysmith Black Mambazo (or, those ones from that baked bean ad ages ago). And for the video? Enter Chevy Chase. What’s not to love? All of it? There’s no pleasing some people.
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Time for a bona fide taxi classic. Toto’s ‘Africa‘ is one of the biggest fist-in-the-air anthems for our cabbies. Sadly for Toto the band name, in various parts of Africa, is slang for “vagina”. However, that didn’t stop them from selling a bucketload of records. If you want to hear the song watch the video below. Quite why a band would decide to play on a stack of gigantic books while singing about Africa is beyond me. Perhaps it was part of some Blue Peter appeal?
OK, I never made a resolution to write regular music-related posts about the US elections, but if those darn American politicians keep messing up so deliciously, what am I supposed to do?
First there was Will.i.am’s campaign song for Obama, then there was the frankly horrific “Hillary4U&Me”. And now comes the news that Republican Mike Huckabee tried to plunder classic rock history by using Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” for his campaign… only, he didn’t ask permission. And the guy who wrote and performed it - Boston’s main man Tom Scholz - is not very happy about it. And nor am I! Hands off our Taxicab Classics, Creationist!
Indeed so not happy was he that he sent Huckers a letter, and quite possibly leaked it to, um, the internet. Thephoenix.com reproduces the whole thing, and it’s a cracking read.
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