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Re: Absence.
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:34:14 GMT
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On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:15:05 GMT, Beth Reiten <breiten@net-art.de> wrote:
> Mike Timm wrote:
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> > On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:40:30 GMT, Beth Reiten <breiten@net-art.de>
> > wrote:
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> > > Modern culture quiz: Where are all of these quotes from originally?
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> > Artist: Murry Head
> > Title "One night in Bangkok"
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> I'm sorry, I can only give you partial credit for that answer! The full answer is
> (with a couple of dates I've whifted on!): One Night in Bangkok was first written
> for the musical "concept album" Chess, music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus,
> lyrics by Tim Rice. They released the album in 1985(?), had no response from the
> industry, and allowed Murry Head to record a radio-oriented version of the song,
> which finally attracted attention from a producing group, which finally got Chess
> produced as a fully realized stage musical. Nice run-on sentence there! Never
> let it be said that the media doesn't drive our culture!
> Beth Reiten
I thought Vangelis was involved in that somehow.
BTW, thanks for this sub-thread everyone. I've now had *just a part* of that
song running through my head for days, and I don't seem to have a recording of
it, and I can't find an MP3 anywhere. Blah.
Steve "Not much between despair and ecstasy"[1] Bliss
[1] Might be a misquote, but that's about par for this course.
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