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Bill & Bob's most infamous track must surely be the recognisable 'Seven Nation Marching'; no doubt down to another duo who rose to fame with a song of similar name in the first decade of the 21st Century. Like the droll squalor that is modern day politics, Pippen-Heart vs. White-White is an unending debate. Which is the best? What makes your opinion right? Doesn't imitated art always usurp an original, at best distorting, worst destroying its former into certain obscurity? Bob Heart had this to say in 2011: "I'm not an originals-Nazi, I love all covers. Bill loved most covers: he adored seeing an orchestra play a classical work. Name me one orchestra who doesn't do covers? When I first heard Jacky-boy's [White] 'Seven Nation Army', I was greatly honoured. So was Bill at first; but to die never having received public credit from either Stripe is saddening. I wouldn't have called him a totally desperate man but to get so close to the success he forever sought, right at the end of his life - let's just say Mr. White should watch his back in whatever concept of the afterlife we find ourselves in post-morté. I personally think their track's better anyway."
lyrics
This loop goes round and round
Filling out the sound, with no end
And the critics unite as we take up our right
If they don’t like these words they can…
Roll the bones, say: this song’s a hit
Up inside empty minds
And we’ve only just met
Look out we’re a’coming
This army is a’running
(Oooh-ooh-ooh-oh)
Hear the voices cheering
Bill and Bob are nearing
A new revelation
Eighties generation
A new album, a new line of songs
We know what we’re doing, sing-along:
Seven nation marching
Beats which keep on grooving
Politics embarching
Revolution keeps on moving
[Chorus]
The sound of nineteen-eighty
From Timbuktu to Haiti
Pippen-Heart go solo
Rock’s the place to go
The sound of nineteen-eighty
From Timbuktu to Haiti
We always have a party
And we only just got started!
We said we’d fight them off
Bill and Bob kicking arse again
We scared ‘em off!
We have it our own way
So me and Bob did our own thing
We did it ourselves
[Chorus]
credits
from
Ded Leopard,
released November 1, 1980
Released as a single 27/8/80, available on The Ultimate Singles Collection [A-Sides]:
billandbob.bandcamp.com/track/seven-nation-marching-3
Music & Words: © Heart / Pippen
Inspired and aided by Jonty Bagshaw
[Post-note from the Heart: he holds no vendetta over potential royalties lost, moreso would happily work with either Jack or Jack & Meg in the future]
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