SOTD 08/09/01 | Finally

Tim Curry's 'I Do The Rock'
(With explanitory notes)

(The Writers/Arts Verse)
[center]Edith Sitwell giving readings[/center]
[center]14 Moscow road[/center]
[center]Osbert giving champagne parties[/center]
[center]Sachi's got a cold[/center]
[center]Gertrude's hanging pictures[/center]
[center]Alice is making tea[/center]
[center]Me I do the only thing that still makes sense to me[/center]
[center]I do the Rock[/center]
[center]I do the Rock Rock[/center]


--The Sitwell family: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell.
--Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was a writer, editor, and poet.
--Her two brothers were poets.
--Description from list of British authors:
--"..a truly remarkable woman, who, with her brothers,
--Osbert and Sacheverell, formed a celebrated and
--redoubtable literary triumvirate."
--Gertrude Stein, patron of the arts--Picasso & the Surrealists
--her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas, of marijuana cookie fame
--guess the tea was to wash 'em down.

(The Rock Verse)
[center]John and Yoko, farming beef[/center]
[center]Raising protein quota[/center]
[center]Sometimes they make love and art[/center]
[center]Inside their Dakota[/center]
[center]Rodney's feeling sexy[/center]
[center]Mick is really frightfully bold[/center]
[center]Me I do the only thing that stops me growing old[/center]
[center]I do the Rock[/center]
[center]I do the Rock Rock[/center]


[center]Well it's stimulating[/center]


--John Lennon and wife Yoko, who lived in the
--famous Dakota apartment building in NYC
--Rod Stewart 'Do You Think I'm Sexy?'
--Mick Jagger.
--(He left out this verse after John's death)

(The Thinkers Verse)
[center]Solzhenitzin, feels exposed[/center]
[center]Built a barbed wire prison[/center]
[center]Nietzsche's six feet under[/center]
[center]But his baby's still got rhythm[/center]
[center]Einstein's celebrating ten decades[/center]
[center]But I'm afraid philosophy is just too much[/center]
[center]Responsibility for me[/center]
[center]I do the Rock[/center]
[center]I do the Rock Rock[/center]


--Solzhenitsyn (1918-) wrote The Gulag Archipelago
--about the concentration camps in Siberia, Russia.
--Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 wrote
--stuff like "Twilight of the idols, or, How to
--philosophize with a hammer" and "Also sprach Zarathustra".
--His 'baby' is his philosophy which still has a huge
--influence on post-modernism.
--(Nietzsche is dead--he was famous for saying 'God is dead,'
--but his thinking continues to reverberate.)
--I assume you know of Einstein!
--I believe he had some interesting things to say about
--the responsibility of scientists.


(The Sports Verse)
[center]Baby Ruth and Dizzy Dean[/center]
[center]Best and Colin Caudre[/center]
[center]Little Mo, Virginia Wade[/center]
[center]Pistol Pete and O.J.[/center]
[center]I always liked Di Maggio[/center]
[center]and Rockne's pretty Knute you know[/center]
[center]I could never whack a ball with such velocity[/center]
[center]I do the Rock[/center]
[center]I do the Rock Rock[/center]


[center]When I can get it, its stimulating, I'm a keen student [/center]

--Baby Ruth & Dizzy Dean are baseball.
--George Best was an international level soccer
--player for Manchester United.
--Colin Caudry(Cowdrey) was an international level English cricketer.
--Maureen Connolly and Virginia Wade are
--championship level British(American??) tennis players.
--Pistol Pete Maravich for basketball
--OJ is more famous now for the sport of murder.
--Di Maggio is baseball.
--Knute Rockne was the football coach at Notre Dame.
-----All these sports people were also as famous off court as on.


(The Personalities Verse)
[center]Liz and Dick and Brit and Liza[/center]
[center]Jaclyn Kate and Farrah[/center]
[center]Meg and Roddy, John Travolta[/center]
[center]Gov. Brown and Linda[/center]
[center]Interview and People Magazine[/center]
[center]Miss Rona and the Queen[/center]
[center]It must be really frightful to attract publicity[/center]
[center]I do the Rock myself [/center]

--Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
--Brit Ekland and Liza Minelli.
--Jaclyn, Kate and Farrah were 'Charlie's
--Angels', a popular TV show.
--Meg and Roddy: Princess Margaret & her beux, Roddy
--LLewellyn, were an item at the time, as was John Travolta.
--California's Gov. Brown was dating Linda
--Ronstadt. Controversial at the time.
--Rona Barrett was a famous gossip columnist.
--'The Queen' was a British magazine, founded
--by Andy Warhol


(The Politicians Verse)
[center]Carter, Began and Sadat[/center]
[center]Brezhnev, Teng and Castro[/center]
[center]Everyday negotiate us closer to disastro[/center]
[center]Idi Amin and the Shah[/center]
[center]And Al Fatah is quite bizarre[/center]
[center]I could never get the hang of ideology[/center]
[center]I do the rock [/center]
[center]I do the Rock Rock [/center]

--You have to remember this was written in 1978-79
--US President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Began
--and Egyptian President Sadat's meetings to find
--peace in the Middle East were big news.
--Brezhnev in the Soviet Union, Castro in Cuba,
--and Mao Tse Teng inn China, were not interested in peace, anywhere.
--Idi Amin was the African President who bragged
--about eating human flesh, the Iranian Shah was not
--popular at home or anywhere else, Al Fatah was the
--name of a Libyan guided missile program secretly
--aided by Serbia, and/or a paramilitary faction of
--Yassir Arafat's PLO.
--Heavy stuff for a Rock & Roll song


AD LIBSbasically, he shouts these at the end)
Sunshine, Sunshine
Well you can't get enough of it man
Oh, we got the top down now
If you don't have the top down, pull the top down
How often do you get a sunny day
Come to the rock, the rock will cure your ills, man
Stimulating, stimulating
(something about 'thru the rear window,
you deserve it, man'---just as well, perhaps,
to leave it alone.)
Or maybe it was: Been a really rough winter, man, ya deserve it, y'know.