Ladies and gentlemen, from 1968 it's The Finest Hair in Rock 'n' Roll -- AKA Dave Davies of The Kinks -- and his first solo hit "Death of a Clown."
I may be throwing away a perfectly good Listomania topic here, but if there's ever been a better rock drinking song, I can't think of it this morning.
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I love this song. In a Kinks bio I have there is a great pic of him peforming this song on TOTPs I think, wearing an incredibly tacky Elizabethan get up. Wish there was a video of that.
The second half of this couplet eluded me for years: “The trainer of insects is crouched on his knees /And frantically looking for runaway fleas,” & it was ironically in a 1970s college bar that a friend finally completed the line for me. I went home at 2 a.m. & put on the LP to verify, waking up my housemates in the process. I was just delighted.
I wanted Dave Davies hair as a teen!
ROTP(lumber)
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