Solicitor in Studio
Lyrics
Young dicks make TV
Get 'em away from me
Young dicks make TV
Loads of hair-style ideals
Here's the other end of the tale
Here's the other end of the scale
Law expert makes studio
He had waited so long
Patrick Moore (1) got a manifesto
He learned the words
Vid king and spontaneous
He learned the words
Analysis and through video
Solicitor in studio
If he got it right
Could be a celebrity
Like M. Pyke (2)
Scientists and their bloody childish reading habits
Scientists and their bloody childish reading habits (3)
But solicitor in studio
Soon ran into trouble
From the start, trouble with the mic
Noises and high pitched whines
Aggressive interviewer much too fast
Then up came Beaumont-Dark (4)
Ripped his argument to shreds
Solicitor in studio
Soon ran into trouble
He inadvertently proved the point
That his profession was rot
He inadvertently proved the point
That his profession was shh shh shh
Solicitor in studio
Soon ran into trouble
Young dicks make TV
Get 'em away from me
Young dicks make TV
Get 'em away from me
Young and old dicks make TV
Young and old dicks make TV
Solicitor in studio soon ran into trouble
Notes
1. Patrick Moore was an astronomer who often appeared in the media, especially as the host of the BBC program The Sky at Night. ^
2. Magnus Pyke was another British scientist who regularly appeared on television. ^
3. Dr. X O'Skeleton says "Many scientists love Lewis Carroll. For instance, Alice in Wonderland features heavily in Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, a book about artificial intelligence."
This seems true to me, although the only other examples I can think of are as follows: Martin Gardner, the famous science writer, also annotated Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (no library should be without his annotated versions!). And, the "Red Queen Hypothesis," proposed by Leigh Van Valen, is the theory that organisms must continually adapt in order to survive (i.e. not in order to attract more mates to gain a survival advantage over other organisms, but to stay around at all--Carroll's Red Queen says "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place").
4. Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark was an member of parliament who also had a high media profile. He was nicknamed "the king of the rent-a-quote" for his penchant for witty and provocative one-liners; like Moore and Pyke, he was not a member of the bar. ^
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Comments (21)
- 1. | 04/06/2013
- 2. | 26/08/2013
The way I'm now understanding this song, I think the party political angle is mistaken,
High in the bestseller lists in March 1982, which is also when this song debuted live, was a book called "Bureaucrats: how to annoy them" by "R.T. Fishall" - a pseudonym used by Patrick Moore. The book includes an anti-bureaucrat manifesto.
So I now think that the unfortunate solicitor was probably supposed to speak against the book. I can see Beaumont-Dark being on Moore's side - which he wouldn't, as a Tory Party MP, have been if the discussion were about party politics.
So it remains to identity the solicitor and the news programme he appeared on.
Dan
- 3. | 26/08/2013
- 4. | 02/10/2013
- 5. | 14/05/2014
Young dicks make TV
Get 'em away from me
Young dicks make TV
Get 'em away from me
Young and old dicks make TV
Young and old dicks make TV
Solicitor in studio soon ran into trouble
- 6. | 24/05/2014
"high pitched whines", not "high pitched wines"
After "ripped his argument to shreds", the repeated chorus is:
"Solicitor in studio soon ran into trouble", i.e. not "who"
and there's a missing line from this bit:
"He inadvertently proved the point
That his profession was rot
Shh Shh Shh"
It should be:
"He inadvertently proved the point
That his profession was rot
He inadvertently proved the point
That his profession was shh shh shh"
Shh presumably masking "shit" or "shite".
After that, the repeated chorus is:
"Solicitor in studio soon ran into trouble" again, not "who soon"
- 7. | 06/04/2016
- 8. | 19/03/2017
- 9. | 19/03/2017
- 10. | 20/03/2017
BE: On "What You Need" you say a "bit" of Iggy's Stooge, is that right?
MS: A vid, a video.
- 11. | 23/03/2017
- 12. | 23/03/2017
- 13. | 01/04/2017
- 14. | 03/11/2017
- 15. | 03/11/2017
Many scientists love Lewis Carroll. For instance, it Alice in Wonderland features heavily in Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach, a book about artificial intelligence
- 16. | 04/11/2017
- 17. | 11/11/2017
- 18. | 11/11/2017
- 19. | 05/01/2022
- 20. | 04/07/2022
- 21. | 03/09/2023
Worth noting that Moore was also politically right wing on many issues (not in a traditional conservative sense).
Moore was a co-founder of the United Country Party, which along with the Keep Britain United Party (anti-Welsh devolution) amalgamated in September 1980 with the New Britain Party.
Hence his manifesto, I guess.
Beaumont-Dark obituary:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1514720/Sir-Anthony-Beaumont-Dark.html