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Here ya go, some Monday nite rock........courtesy of Bad company........Shooting Star from the '75 album Straight Shooter.
Live version here, and bloody hell Paul Rodger sure has looked after those vocal chords.



 
..............and my favourite Bad Co track...........great band.


Steve
 

R.E.M. Everybody Hurts - Just because it was needed today,
One of the Great All time songs

(btw he's fine, just had that sort of day - bittersweet memories )
 
Nort said:
So, that was last week then?

;)
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:D:D:D

Here, have another........

ZZ Top, circa 1983.......


.......and for those a little older, here's a fantastic Queen track that's four wheel related........


Steve
 
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Lyrics translated for the unread.....


Right you are Harald Sigurdsson, the prophecy
Of Brother Olav Matkhugen's dreams, and now you
Have to go with Earl Toste and sail to England and
Fulfil more strange dreams

In spring of 1066 the journey was started.
The power loving king of Norway ruled eager
His land and with one hundred and ninetyfive
Ships, to the Orkney earldom they sailed west,
And Earl Torfinn's sons led a number of one-
Hundred longships.

Came up from the village of Jordvik, in battle
Fall the Earl Muru-Kåre and Earl Valtov, he fled.
Harald and Toste went forward because Earl
Valtov, he swore to them that he and the knights
Of the king's table will meet them
At Stamford Bridge.

Next day when Harald and Toste walked around
The camp, the sun gleamt at many helmets and
Armours. The King of England had arrived and
Saw with clarity that the northmen army was
Standing puzzeled
At Stamford Bridge

Got them on the advice to led them out of county,
While Styrkår rode to the ships as fast as he could
But to win a little time, they said to the bad, strong
Tjodolv that he has to stop the king's men out there
At Stamford Bridge

And long Tjodolv held out against the
Anglo-Saxon king but from underneath
The bridge with spears they stuck, so they
Overcame. Then the second battle ran
Over, while Öystein and Styrkår and all
Men sprang from the ships, to reach in
Time Stamford Bridge.

Before Haralds army could march forward
They were cut from both sides and an arrow
Hit him. When Öystein and Styrkår arrived,
Fully dressed in armour all over the men were
Slit and ran barely fighting in the water and the
Hills at Stamford Bridge.

When the third battle began, was called Orreira
And slaughter was great and the Norwegians
Had to flee.. So they went to William's men in
The Frankish kingdom over the mighty water and
The Norse allting/everythings? right is fall out
There at Stamford Bridge.

Can't believe I haven't heard it before, I love it!!

Some historic info relating to the above.......although you lot are probably well versed in the facts.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge

Steve
 
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steve said:
Lyrics translated for the unread.....
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I'm happy you enjoy the song as much as I do, but unfortunately those lyrics are wrong - they seem to have been google translated. Here's a better version that I copied from the youtube comment track and modified and corrected a bit:

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Hear you Harald Sigurdsson! The dream-signs from brother Olav:
The power-lust you must quench now, or ill you will fare.
Listen not to Jarl Tostig, who tempts you to travel to England.
Tord had a strange dream and foreboding the many dreams were.

In the spring of 1066 a voyage was prepared;
A power-glad king ruled Norway and raised the land-levy.
195 ships set sail for the Jarl of Orkney
And Jarl Thorfinn's sons raised another hundred longships.

As they arrived in the town of York the first battle resounded:
Jarl Muru-Kåre fell and Jarl Valthjof ran.
Harald and Tostig sallied forth, but Jarl Valthjof swore at them:
"The knights of the king's table you will meet at Stamford Bridge."

Harald and Tostig on the next day went forth without mail-shirts.
Far ahead the sun reflected of helms and mail-shirts many:
"The England-king it surely is, I recognise Thingmannalid's* clothes".
The Northman army was caught off-guard and stopped at Stamford Bridge.

They decided all to rally
as Styrkår rode down to the ships as fast as he could.
But in order to win time they bade Thjodolf the Strong to hold
the king's men there on Stamford Bridge.

And long Thjodolf held his ground against the Anglo-Saxon king,
but a spear reached him from below, and so they came across.
As the second battle poured, Øystein and Styrkår and all their men
ran from the ships to reach Stamford Bridge in time.

Harald went before his men and rained blows to all sides,
A grey-goose-fletched arrow flew then and became the bane of the Northman-king.
As Øystein and Styrkår arrived, fully dressed in chain-mail all,
for toil and hurry they barely reached the fight in the field at Stamford Bridge.

Then the third battle began, called the Charge of Orre**
and many fell, but the Northmen were forced to flee.
And so it was that William's men from France won the throne.
And the Northmen's thing-law fell, there by the Stamford Bridge.

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*Thing+manna+lid literally seems to mean something like 'high counsel men group', so basically what's meant is that they recognised high-born individuals in the army ahead, based on their rich clothes, and realised they were faced with the Anglo-Saxon king and his men.

** I believe this is the name of the Norwegian Orre, who led the last desperate charge. So either the lyrics say that Orre was called, or that the name of the last phase of the battle was called the Ride (charge) of Orre.
 
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