Message for Moonlight Shadow

[Wyatt Earp]

Please change your name. It's a truly horrible earworm to have.

[Spearmint Rhino]

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Caught in the middle of a hundred and five...

[WOM]

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I didn't know a song called Moonlight Shadow existed. I thought everyone was complaining about a Cat Stevens earworm.

[G-Man]

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Moitie, please call yourself Tubular Bells instead.

[WOM]

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Richard Branson, in his autobiography, tells a great story about Oldfield's first live gig.

[Wyatt Earp]

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[WOM]

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Ah, yes, well it seems that Oldfield agreed to play the album in its entirety at (I think) the Royal Albert Hall, but hadn't considered that, you know, there'd actually be thousands of people staring up at him.

As he was approaching the Hall, and started seeing the throngs of people, he had a massive panic attack. To actually get him on stage, Branson had to bribe him by giving him his Jaguar.

Such was the experience that, before the final (roaring) applause had died down, Oldfield was out the back door, into the Jaguar and off into the country, not to be seen again by anyone for months.

[Taylor]

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If he thinks you're a poacher, he'll shoot you.

[hobbes]

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Let's not get carried away.

[Moonlight Shadow]

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Well, bad luck lads, I do like that song...I might change it at some point though.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Moonlight shadow wrote:

Well, bad luck lads, I do like that song...

Yeah? Strewth.

[Brandenburger Toro]

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I find the earworm fantastic, particularly the chorussed guitar solo. Carry on, that man.

[Alderman Barnes]

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My problem with Moitie being Moonlight Shadow is that Abedi now calls himself Kurt Mondschein, and I have to do a double-take each time I read one of their posts to work out which one it is.

[Moonlight Shadow]

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He is the ManUtd glory-hunter, I'm the ex-ultra turned hiker, easy...

[Purves Grundy]

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Bloody hell, I agree with M-M and Toro, while disagreeing with WE. I need to go and lie down.

[Lucia Lanigan]

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This will be (rightly) used against you forevermore.

Your moniker gives me a Dave Angel, Eco Warrier eye-worm, Moitie, so I'm not that bothered.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Purves Grundy wrote:

Bloody hell, I agree with M-M and Toro, while disagreeing with WE. I need to go and lie down.

It's music. Disagreeing with me on music's nothing new.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Lucia Lanigan wrote:

This will be (rightly) used against you forevermore.

Your moniker gives me a Dave Angel, Eco Warrier eye-worm, Moitie, so I'm not that bothered.

That's a good point, that is. Easily my favourite Fast Show character. Strangely undercelebrated.

[Andy C]

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I'm not hot on the song all. In fact, it's one of those, like "I Just Called To Say I Love You", which pulls me up short when people profess a liking for it. Though very evidently popular, its appeal is completely unfathomable to me.

"3am in the morning", for heaven's sake.

[DCI Harry Batt]

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"3am in the morning" is very annoying indeed, agreed.

Hang on, it's 4am, isn't it? Same thing mind.

[Andy C]

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Yes, you're right, it's four.

Which is one worse.

[Brandenburger Toro]

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I quite like that line. Isn't it drawing the distinction between 4am "in the morning", when one wakes up early, and 4am "at night", when one is still up? They're totally distinct things, even though they're not.

The distinction, and the wordplay, is a bit Dylan-y actually, in the best sense. Though I realise some people won't find the best sense much good at all.

[DCI Harry Batt]

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workingstiff actually gives me a BNL earworm. I suspect that's just me, though.

[Lucia Lanigan]

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Here's the antidote for anyone troubled by that earworm:

Old Mother Earth is heating up like a dirty great big cake

I'm here with a few of me new pals: Smudge, Tofu, Roadkill, and Arabella