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Sun Jul-31-05 09:11 AM
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One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster |
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The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister And if you're lucky then the god's a she I can feel an angel sliding up to me
THE AMERICAN:
One town's very like another When your head's down over your pieces, brother
COMPANY:
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity To be looking at the board, not looking at the city
THE AMERICAN:
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town --
COMPANY:
Tea, girls, warm, sweet Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
THE AMERICAN:
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist Whose every move's among the purest I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine
COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble Not much between despair and ecstasy One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Can't be too careful with your company I can feel the devil walking next to me
THE AMERICAN:
Siam's gonna be the witness To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness This grips me more than would a Muddy old river or reclining Buddha
Scene from the music video And thank God I'm only watching the game -- controlling it --
I don't see you guys rating The kind of mate I'm contemplating I'd let you watch, I would invite you But the queens we use would not excite you
So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage parlours --
COMPANY:
One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free You'll find a god in every golden cloister A little flesh, a little history I can feel an angel sliding up to me
One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble Not much between despair and ecstasy One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble Can't be too careful with your company I can feel the devil walking next to me
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Sun Jul-31-05 09:11 AM
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1. I loved that song when it first came out..... |
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Had no idea it was from a musical
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Sun Jul-31-05 09:16 AM
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Chess. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002GLRBenny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (from ABBA) did the music and Tim Rice did the lyrics.
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Sun Jul-31-05 09:16 AM
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3. and what musical is that? |
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for those of us not in the know.
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Sun Jul-31-05 09:24 AM
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Chess isn't that well known as musicals go, but that song sure has stuck around. :D
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Sun Jul-31-05 09:29 AM
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7. Trivia for those who are curious |
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Murray Head, who played the chess player in the music videos, is actually the brother of Anthony Stewart Head, who most of us know fondly as Giles on Buffy the Vampire Killer and a whole bunch of commercials for coffee. :)
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Sun Jul-31-05 09:33 AM
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8. Murray Head was also on the orignal |
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recording of Jesus Christ Superstar...
Kin gHerod, I think
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Sun Jul-31-05 09:26 AM
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5. At first it wasn't a musical, per se |
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They had written the music for a concept album called Chess. The music came long before the actual script. It went to Broadway and London well after the album had been out, but didn't last. The whole idea of s musical based on a chess tournament I guess was a bit on the boring side.
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Sun Jul-31-05 09:28 AM
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6. What do you expect from a musical that was written by members of ABBA |
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Edited on Sun Jul-31-05 09:28 AM by ET Awful
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Sun Jul-31-05 09:40 AM
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9. It's a cold war love story |
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using two world chess tournaments as the setting. The libretto is perhaps the best work Tim Rice has ever done and the music is much more diverse than the usual three melody Andrew Lloyd Weber thing. On the whole, one of the best musicals of the 1980s.
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