I don't think anybody understands what it's about or what he is singing

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@@folksinger2100 It's a Hate Crime

@@Katmando007 considering that the first documented report of people blacking up was in 1540, if you care to read about it you will find that the practice was done to disguise those supplementing their income by performing dance, mummers and other performances not approved of by their employers, the landed gentry, from effectively making the performers destitute. I dread to think what spin you will put on people trying to put food on their table?

​​​​​​​​@@folksinger2100 Thre is little evidence of blacking up in morris dancing before 1800 - the practice coincides with the popularity of the minstrel troupes in the early 19th century. Theories of disguise, miners or Moors etc have no supporting evidence - and blacking up is really only a Border Morris tradition. Morris dance teams in 1540 would be sponsored by the Town and City Guilds - they would perform on feast days and in parades and be richly dressed. The dancing for money by village teams would come later when the dance moved out into the country. And they would perform for the 'landed gentry' and those in the big houses as that's where the money was. The Bacup Britannia Coconut Dancers aren't morris dancers - earliest reference to such a dance team is 1857.

It's a version of a 19th century theatrical coconut dance - the mining origins story is spurious nonesense.

@@Wotsitorlabart yes there is a female writer putting that explanation about.

@@folksinger2100 This piece, which can be found online, was written for the English Folk Dance and Song Society and gives full historical background to the dance and its surprising links to Mallorca; Peter Bearon - 'Coconut Dances in Lancashire, Mallorca, Provence and on the Nineteenth-century Stage'. The article builds on information collected by Professor of Dance History and Ethnography Theresa Buckland and renowned folklorist Roy Judge. Perhaps Professor Buckland is your 'female writer'.

@@Wotsitorlabart Yet the Morris Federation say something totally different, Professor Buckland expertise is Victorian and Edwardian dance, nothing to do with earlier times then

@@folksinger2100 Read Bearon's piece. And if Buckland's expertise is in Victorian and Edwardian dance then the coconut dances of the Rossendale Valley are well within that time frame. The very first dance team was the Tunstead Mill Nutters in 1857 - it was they who taught the Britannia team their steps in 1920. There were no 'earlier times'. And the Britannia Nutters may have been members of the Morris Ring but they aren't morris dancers - quite different origins.

Good point. A lot of Soviets began to fear for the future & the West was able to gain the permanent upper hand in the cold war.

Yes, you have absolutely right!

@robertcollier629 he passed away some years ago, aged 96, he has 6 living children and most if not all are members of the city cathedral. He has written a few books to, sorry can't really tell you much more than that

@robertcollier629 one of his books if not best selling is the holy ghost buster, assume it's still in print if not a copy would be easily found on a internet site . Good 👍 luck

This is from October 1982, just before the start of the 'Farewell Tour' so the guest guitarist is Masami Tsuchiya from Yellow Magic Orchestra. At that point, Rob Dean had been told that his services were no longer needed -in a very lame, mealy-mouthed way- more than one year before so sadly he never really got to enjoy Japan's brief time as a major band in the UK (after those long years of struggle and bad reviews.) Barbieri is there, on the left, wearing a white jacket. You can see a glimpse of him at the end of the song. Basically the guy directing this TV show just chooses to ignore him and as a matter of fact Rick was also largely ignored by the people filming the concerts for the Oil on Canvas live anthology -to the point he had to go back to a video production studio after the Tour for a few shots of him miming keyboard parts that would be added to the final product... As for Masami, he's all over the place on the Oil on Canvas video tape... I guess Virgin were expecting to shift a lot of units in his country.