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HARDtalk: Tommy Thompson 3
John McCain has been outspoken about the length of time US forces could be in Iraq. Will his military experience help him into the White House. Stephen Sackur asks Tommy Thompson, Republican Presidential Candidate 2008
Length: 513
Rating: 4.00 (2 ratings)
Tags: BBC News HARDtalk Tommy Thompson
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Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
Alannah Currie (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand musician and artist, best known as a former member of the British pop group Thompson Twins.
Born in in Auckland, New Zealand, Currie emigrated to England in 1977, as a drop-out rock journalist. Currie squatted in various places in South West London, ending up in Lillieshall Road, Clapham Old Town. This turned out to be a major step on the road to stardom with the Thompson Twins. In 1979, with her across-the-road neighbour, Trace Newton-Ingham (Traci Newton), she co-founded the dread-punk-improvising group, The Unfuckables. The Unfuckables performed one especially memorable gig at an Anti-Psychiatry Conference in early 1980, held in the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. For this particular gig the group comprised of the two co-founders, plus an array of musicians from London's 'underground' music scene - Viv Albertine (The Slits), Gareth Sager (The Pop Group), Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward (This Heat), Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins), Jimmy Cauty (later of The KLF) and improviser Steve Beresford, amongst others.
Soon after this, she joined the Thompson Twins and much later still the more experimental Babble... as lyricist, percussionist and visual artist. In 1992 she returned to New Zealand working primarily as a glass artist and environmental activist. She was founder of the women's anti-GM movement MAdGE. In 2004 she designed a series of protest billboards that caused huge controversy in New Zealand but won several international art / science awards.
Currie currently lives and works in London where she is a student of the little known art movement, armchair destructivists.
The Thompson Twins were an English New Wave/pop band normally associated with the 1980s. The band formed in April 1977, and disbanded in May 1993. Massively popular in the mid-1980s, the band scored a string of hits in the UK, broke into the USA and Canada and enjoyed huge popularity around the globe. Total worldwide record sales are estimated at 50 million. The band was named after the two bumbling detectives in Hergé's comic strip, The Adventures of Tintin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alannah_Currie
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Length: 280
Rating: 4.80 (584 ratings)
Tags: NZ Kiwi New Zealand Music Thompson Twins
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Richard Thompson - Beeswing
From a BBC Late Show Feat. Roots Based Artists.
I was nineteen when I came to town, they called it the Summer of Love
They were burning babies, burning flags. The hawks against the doves
I took a job in the steamie down on Cauldrum Street
And I fell in love with a laundry girl who was working next to me
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child, oh she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay.
And you wouldn't want me any other way"
Brown hair zig-zag around her face and a look of half-surprise
Like a fox caught in the headlights, there was animal in her eyes
She said "Young man, oh can't you see I'm not the factory kind
If you don't take me out of here I'll surely lose my mind"
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine that I might crush her where she lay
She was a lost child, she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay.
And you wouldn't want me any other way"
We busked around the market towns and picked fruit down in Kent
And we could tinker lamps and pots and knives wherever we went
And I said that we might settle down, get a few acres dug
Fire burning in the hearth and babies on the rug
She said "Oh man, you foolish man, it surely sounds like hell.
You might be lord of half the world, you'll not own me as well"
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
So fine a breath of wind might blow her away
She was a lost child, oh she was running wild
She said "As long as there's no price on love, I'll stay.
And you wouldn't want me any other way"
We was camping down the Gower one time, the work was pretty good
She thought we shouldn't wait for the frost and I thought maybe we should
We was drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pitch
And like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch
Oh the last I heard she's sleeping rough back on the Derby beat
White Horse in her hip pocket and a wolfhound at her feet
And they say she even married once, a man named Romany Brown
But even a gypsy caravan was too much settling down
And they say her flower is faded now, hard weather and hard booze
But maybe that's just the price you pay for the chains you refuse
Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee's wing
And I miss her more than ever words could say
If I could just taste all of her wildness now
If I could hold her in my arms today
Well I wouldn't want her any other way
Length: 305
Rating: 4.90 (426 ratings)
Tags: Richard Thompson Beeswing Anne Briggs
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Andrew Thompson - We're In Business
Andrew's now legendary robot song available at last!
Available at iTunes http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=185584409 or http://www.LewisRecordings.com/shop/index.html#atwib
Dir: http://www.myspace.com/kirkaction
Length: 221
Rating: 4.60 (615 ratings)
Tags: electro pop 80's Andrew Thompson Lewis Recordings
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Thompson Twins - King For A Day
Their last video as a trio (I believe). They seem to be having a lot of fun in this one. And there are nuns at the end! Fun indeed. :-)
Length: 245
Rating: 4.80 (384 ratings)
Tags: Thompson Twins king day
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ZX SPECTRUM DALEY THOMPSON DECATHLON DAY 1
CLASSIC OLD SPECCY SPORTS GAME. HOW TO PLAY THE 1ST LEVEL...NOT!
Length: 361
Rating: 4.80 (13 ratings)
Tags: ZX SPECTRUM DALEY THOMPSON DECATHLON
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