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Pimpernel Smith said:
Impressed that Harry Styles that he opens his concert with Charles Bukowski's Style.
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Never rated him before. Then again I never rated 1D. But now his album is plastered all over the charts so it's hard to avoid him. Some to my taste. Some not so much.
 
Fwiffo said:
Never rated him before. Then again I never rated 1D. But now his album is plastered all over the charts so it's hard to avoid him. Some to my taste. Some not so much.
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Never rated him either, but he must be on the right side if he digs Charles Bukowksi.

The kids and the missus where at the Billy Oilish concert on Saturday, good job they flew out of London City as Heathrow's flights to Schipol were delayed by several hours. A right mess at Schipol as well, took them an hour and half to get through immigration as EU passport holders.

The missus couldn't believe the screaming fans at the concert. It was like Beatlemania.
 
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Pimpernel Smith said:
This is not rebel song, this is the night they drove old Dixie down...

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The black singer of this on the surface Southern Confederate White moaning seems to be aware the character complaining is Caine, Adam and Eve's murderous son.

This Slate analysis of the song is worth a read.

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” is a character song through and through, and we know this from its opening line: “Virgil Caine is the name.” (I’ve always found that name to be eye-rollingly pretentious on Robertson’s part, but it does seem notable that his Southern narrator shares a name with the Bible’s first murderer.) It’s about the devastation of war as experienced from the losing side, but, with the possible exception of the line “They should never have taken the very best” (an ambiguous they that could refer to either the Confederate war machine or the Union army), which prompts some audible applause in The Last Waltz, there’s not much in the song that rings as an explicit endorsement of the Confederacy. In fact, the song’s chorus refers to “bells ringing” and “people singing” and is notably major-key, almost triumphant. (This is one of the reasons James’ rewrite of the song’s refrain, “Tonight we drive old Dixie down,” works as well as it does.)'

slate.com

Is “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” Really a Pro-Confederate Anthem?

The answer may lie in the ear of the beholder.
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Sammy Ambrose said:
“They should never have taken the very best” (an ambiguous they that could refer to either the Confederate war machine or the Union army), which prompts some audible applause in The Last Waltz, there’s not much in the song that rings as an explicit endorsement of the Confederacy. In fact, the song’s chorus refers to “bells ringing” and “people singing” and is notably major-key, almost triumphant. (This is one of the reasons James’ rewrite of the song’s refrain, “Tonight we drive old Dixie down,” works as well as it does.)'
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For me that line was always very clear, perhaps because I heard the Joan Baez version first: the Confederacy had taken the young men away to fight and die for a lost and wrong cause. A waste of life and very few of the soldiers were land or slave owners and didn't have much to gain.

It's a character song that puts most of Bruce Springsteen cod-working class ones to shame. It's like a John Ford film.

Here's Robbie on it:



He's another classic:

 
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