Digital Hippies: July 17, 2008

Thursday, July 17, 2008

AC/DC - whole lotta rosie

Whole Lotta Rosie

Wanna tell you a story
'Bout a woman I know
When it comes to lovin'
Oh she steals the show
She ain't exactly pretty
Ain't exactly small
Forty-two, thirty-nine, fifty-six
You could say she's got it all

Never had a woman
Never had a woman like you
Doing all the things
Doing all the things you do
Ain't no fairy story
Ain't no skin and bone
But you give it all you got
Weighing in at nineteen stone

Chorus:
You're a whole lotta woman
A whole lotta woman
Whole lotta Rosie
And you're a whole lotta woman

Oh honey you can do it
Do it to me all night long
Only one to turn
Only one to turn me on
All through the night time
And right around the clock
To my surprise
Rosie never stops
Song Notes : "This is about a very large woman lead singer Bon Scott had relations with early in the band's career. Scott had great affection for the full-size girls"

The music is based on the Chuck Berry song "No Money Down."

"Originally released on the Let There Be Rock album, this song didn't get much publicity until AC/DC re-released it a year later on "If You Want Blood, You Got It" when the band became internationally popular"

AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top If you wanna rock'n'roll

It's A Long Way To The Top Lyric

Riding on the highway, going to a show.
Stopping on the byways, playing rock and roll.
Getting robbed, getting stoned,
getting beat up, broken bones.
Getting had, Getting took.
I tell you folks,
Its harder than it looks.

Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!
Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!
If you think its easy doing one night stands,
Try playing in a rock and roll band.
Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!

Hotel, motel.
Make you wanna cry.
Ladies doing the hard sell.
Know the reason why.
Getting old, getting gray.
Getting ripped off, underpaid.
Getting sold, second hand.
Thats how it goes, when you're in a band.

Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!
Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!
If you wanna be the star on stage and screen, look out!
Its rough and mean!
Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!
Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!
Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!
Its a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!

Its a long way
Its a long way should've told me
Its a long way
Such a long way.
Song Notes : "According to Bon Scott's biographer Clinton Walker, this tongue-in-cheek song "has become an anthem." It was the band's best single to date reaching number 5 in the Australian charts. Heavy Metal tracks are usually dominated by ego tripping guitar solos; this song is unusual because instead of a lengthy guitar solo it features interplay between Angus Young on lead and Bon Scott on the bagpipes. Ronald Belford (Bonnie Scotland) Scott was born in Scotland - as were the Young brothers. The somewhat older Scott arrived in Australia with his family some 11 years before the Youngs emigrated; he learned recorder and drums, and was a proficient bagpipe player. The song runs to 5 minutes 15 seconds, which is quite long for a single"

"The band made a video to promote the single and the album. This was filmed on February 23, 1976 when they rode through the center of Melbourne on an open topped truck accompanied by 3 members of the Rats of Tobruk Pipe Band. The most noticeable feature of the video is that the vocalist was really enjoying himself, but, Walker adds, "it's as if Bon acknowledges he's living on borrowed time, and luckily at that." It would not be such a long way to the top for AC/DC, but 4 years later almost to the day, it would all be over for Bon Scott. On February 19, 1980 he was found dead on the back seat of a car in London, having literally drunk himself to death"