Nick offers up a variety of decent songs. Excellent work, sir
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BY RAINBOW could be the song that got me into rock music - definitely one of the first I heard. It gets played on the tour bus regularly because it’s great to sing to after a few drinks! I wasn’t really into the dad rock stuff when I was young because I was more into death metal. People are always surprised when I talk about discovering one of those bands now - like, ‘Don’t you remember this?’ Well no, I was more into Venom! Them and MERCYFUL FATE were an enormous part of me getting into metal; Don’t Break The Oath is my favourite album of all time. I got it when it first came out and haven’t stopped listening to it regularly since - I still have as much enthusiasm for songs like A Dangerous Meeting as I did when I was a kid.
Wichita Lineman is another tour bus favourite - it’s the kind of track we’ll pull out when people are really getting into condition. It was originally written by Jimmy Webb but I absolutely love the GLEN CAMPBELLversion. MacArthur Park is much the same, actually; it was originally by Donna Summer but I love the version by RICHARD HARRIS. I don’t know if he’s drunk or not, but I’d like to think he is as it’s got this really hammy, drunk dad at a disco sound and the lyrics are insane - ‘Someone left the cake out in the rain/I don’t know if I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it’!