I don’t know if it’s consensus, but it makes sense - either that, or Simon needed a phrase to rhyme with “someone’s taken my place”.
If it makes you feel better, I missed it for about as long.
Supper’s Ready-Genesis. I’ve known the lyrics since 1986, and just learned what, “All Change!” meant earlier this year.
I think it might be Anthem of the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen, actually.
Lucy in the Skies with Diamonds.
I’d been out of touch for a couple of years, and had no idea it was a Beatles cover. I just thought it was easily the best thing that Elton John had ever done. That triggered my realization that the Beatles might be more than just a boy band.
Either that, or he was washing off another part of his anatomy (that’s always been my assumption).
I’m sure it must have been one of the songs by the Monkees. Whether or not it was the theme song, or “Last Train to Clarksville”, or “I Wanna Be Free”, I’m not certain.
Shortly thereafter (1970), I was more or less forced to know by heart the lyrics to “We’ve Only Just Begun”, as it was sung during a Crocker National Bank commercial in the Los Angeles TV area.
Oh, and there are other candidates from even before the Monkees: I do believe I knew the lyrics to “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It’s Flavor” and “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter” very early days in the mid-'60s, thanks to an album my parents bought us as kids…
Chantilly Lace
The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor
or maybe Love Letters in the Sand, or maybe The Sloop John B (Kingston Trio version) or maybe Volare or Sukiyaki. It was all so long ago.
I am not positive but I think that it would be Hungry Heart by Springsteen.
How old were you in 1986? That’s pretty sophisticated for, say, a seven-year-old!
Probably “Joy to the World” by Hoyt Axton/3 Dog Night.
I’m guessing “Lyin’ Eyes” by the Eagles. I liked the story aspect of it, and I made a point of memorizing the whole thing.
I remember it well. It was ‘Let it Be’ by The Beatles. My (single) mother was an OR nurse on call, and once in a while she got called to the hospital at night and couldn’t get a babysitter. So I would be home alone all night at the age of 6 or so. I had a little transistor radio that I would listen to while hiding under my covers in bed, and Let it Be was just the most comforting, soothing song. When it came on the radio, the world suddenly seemed a lot less scary. Every word of those lyrics was burned into my 6 year old brain.
She Loves You written/composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and performed by The Beatles.
Btw, Sweden was the first country The Fab Four visited after they became famous. Here is the first TV-show The Beatles visited after they had released their first 45’s. DROP IN in Swedish television channel 1.
30 October 1963
Probably The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde. For the longest time I thought it was Barney and Clyde.
Probably either “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by Charlie Daniels or “The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers.
“Hot Love” by T. Rex most probably. My parents were born just a tiny bit too early to ever become involved in pop and rock music, but they had a hit sampler from their book club that contained this and also “Metal Guru”. I was a four year old German kid with not a hint of English, but I wore the grooves out of that record and am sure I could sing along.