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what ho!
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Nicko here!
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Welcome to Nicko's "
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Not alot of people know that, number 9!" Yes!
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This is the one
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that comes after eight or before ten, but if you don't have number eight, it comes after seven, doesn't it?
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Yes,
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well you stupid little people, if you do not have number eight or number seven or one of them's missing,
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because if you don't have those little tokens in your sticky greasy palms and you don't have ten of them at
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the end of these ten weeks of releases of the re-released rather singles of Iron Maiden, you won't get your
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little box set, will you?
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No!
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Because as you know by now...
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I haven't told you but you should know...
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you
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will be the proud owner of a special box with some seriously good artwork from Mr.
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Derek Riggs.
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Yes!
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And
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you will then be able to put all those greasy horribly grubby pieces of vinyl in there which as you know will
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have those amazing pictures on them and the little artwork, packages, and sleeves...
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and all that good stuff in
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that box!
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So, keep them all or else you'll be in severely good trouble! (hits the microphone)...
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Take that!
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Now then!
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Now!
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You are severely in some trouble now, because you've got Can I Play With Madness,
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Black Bart Blues, Massacre!
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Mmmmmm!
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Can I Play With Madness written by Harry Harris, Black Bart
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Blues by Harry Harris and Bruce Dickinson, Massacre Lynott, Gorham, and Downey.
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Yes, released the 2nd
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of March 1988, and it got to... (taps microphone)...
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what was that? (taps microphone)...
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Three!
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Yes, number
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three!
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It debuted at number four in the charts, thanks to you lot out there, you horrible viscious mean people
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to go out and buy such a seriously good single as that and get it to number three.
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Hahaha!
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No serious, folks,
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hah!
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This, what can you say, debuted at number four.
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Oh by the way on a more sombre note, and something like that...
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must say before we go much further...
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is
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that, as you may know, remember the video and all that good stuff, this here single.
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Well it was featuring a
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chap who I think we would all agree was one of the great comedians and one of the major contributors to the
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Monty Python mob and gang cohooting geezers out there doing all that mumbo jumbling stuff...
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with the big
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boot and stuff, squashing everybody...
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yes!
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Was Mr.
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Graham Chapman.
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Well, here's a little memorandum to
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him...
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ah, memorandum...
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in memory of him...
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memorandum...
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crazy, off the wall.
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No, I think what we gotta
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say is thanks to Graham for such a great contribution to comedy in general and everything, he's gonna be
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sadly missed.
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But this was one of his last film performances before he unfortunately died.
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So, lets hope he's
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having a good time up there, and we'll...
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undoubtedly we'll meet one another time somewhere else in a
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different place.
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Anyway!
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Moving on to a lighter note, yes!
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You've got Black Bart Blues on this here single, and as you
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know after the old Black Bart Blues there's some various mumblings and jumblings from yours truly.
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And
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these were not "not alot of people know that" mumblings and jumblings, these were stupid mumbling
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jumblings that were put together off of all the...
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at the ends of all the songs that we recorded over that album
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of Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son such as "hmm...
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they're gonna put this on a CD!...
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I (unintelligible) solo!
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I said I seen'em..." and all that stuff right?
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Well you know what I mean, cause you just f'king listened to it,
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didnt ya?
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So there we were, picture this.
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We were at the playback after we had made the album, recorded it,
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all that good stuff, mixed it.
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And we were at the playback for the EMI people.
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And all the band were there,
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and all the press...
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Micky Wall and a few other people...
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hello Micky! ...
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were all there, and they're doing all
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their old reviews of this album and stuff, so we played ...
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kinda played...
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now, you've gotta bear this in
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mind...
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none of the chaps, not one of them let me know what was going on, see?
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So I was clueless!
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I know,
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but as I usually...
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no now look, I was, I didn't have a clue.
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See?
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So there I was standing there...
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now you
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picture this...
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there's the PA system that we were playing this here stuff back through, behind me.
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And I'm
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looking down and all the band, and we'd already gone through the album and all this, and we'd got up to
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singles time, see?
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Everybody was out, all the EMI bigwigs are there, you know, "yeah what ho, yes, eh pretty damn good
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album don't you think?" "
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Well yes I do, pretty damn good, don't you think, yes." "
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Eh, shall we pay them
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money this week?" "(unintelligible) ...
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pretty good stuff, lets go." So!
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Anyway, having said that, there I am...
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this damn thing comes on the bleedin music box.
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After it finishes...
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Black Bart Blues finishes that is, there's
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"whooo, hello!" You know and there's all this stuff like answer phone stuff, I phone someone I forget where
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they got that from, oh it was the studio answer machine... "
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Hi Hi, Nicko here...
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hi." Anyway, you know, just
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stupid stuff.
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Then it starts, doesn't it.
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Well, can you imagine my face.
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There's all the band creased up falling
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all over the place laughing...
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they all thought it was the funniest thing since whatever.
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So there I am looking
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at this lot, and I'm kind of feeling a bit embarrassed you know, cause I'd not heard this, and I thought "what's
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all this mumbling jumbling coming out these here big speakers?" Then I looked over at the other side of the
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room...
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you know those...
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you know those faces that you get from the theatre, right, you know you've got the
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comedy chops and the thriller, you know, and the sad stuff, you know.
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There's one smiling and there's one
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looking like, you know, he's just lost the quid and found a tanner, you know.
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So, picture this...
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the room's
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one half crawling all over the floor laughing, and the other lot are like "eh, what's going on?
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What's this stuff
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coming in?" Can you imagine this is the world...
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EMI world people you know from all over the place.
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And I
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tell ya, when these people saw everybody going "
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Hahahahaho!" they're going "ho ha ha HA HA HAAHA!
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Oh what ho jeez, pretty funny hahhaa." So they also saw the funny side of it after awhile, but it took awhile
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I'll tell ya.
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And of course I was really really embarrassed to say the least, cause this was my lunacy stuff, and
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you you lot f'king got it in your sweaty greasy horrible little palms again, ain't ya!
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Anyway!
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Enough of that, moving on.
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On the other side you've got The Evil That Men Do, or on the same
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side, I dunno how the bloody hell (unintelligible)! (hits microphone)...
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Take that!
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The Evil That Men Do...
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Smith...
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Adrian Smith, B.
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Dickingson...
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Paul Dickinson, and '
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Arry Bomber Harris...
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Steve
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Harris.
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Hmm.
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Released the 1st of August 1988!
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And on the other side of that we had Prowler '88 and
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Charlotte The Harlot written by Mister Murray and Harris!
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Yes, Dave came out of the closet for that one.
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Whoah!
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No, I didn't mean it badly, I mean Dave doesn't...
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when he writes a song he writes a cracker, doesn't
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he?
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But, he...
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he sort of...
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he writes one every couple of years, and he's got a couple in reserve at the
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moment, and so you lot might hear some of this in the next couple of months because I think he's got a cut
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for the new album that you ain't gonna believe.
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Anyway!
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Evil That Men Do.
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Char...
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sh...
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sh...
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sh...
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I had one of them this morning...
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no, a shower.
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Chart
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position five, it debuted at number six.
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Do-de-de-de-do!
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Now, Prowler and Charlotte The Harlot we
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recorded...
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we re-re-re-re-re-recorded these because the band...
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ah it's getting silly, I've gotta get out of here
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and get some fresh air, I mean you ain't gonna believe what it's like in this little room.
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Anyway, the band
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never were completely happy with the original versions, you know, from way back.
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And you lot, you greasy
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despicable mean mangy looking lot out there, you-ou-ou-ou been requesting some of this stuff from the
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early material to be recorded...
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re-recorded...
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with your's truly.
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Hahahaha!
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No, no, no, I'm joking!
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No, you
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know, re-recorded with Bruce and the...
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how's that, we'll put me in there too, so...
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Actually, Steve and I were
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actually discussing a few months back about all these old songs...
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the old stuff that we've recorded, about
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doing maybe in the future, keeping it the same format so basically the end of the day we might actually have
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the whole back issue of all the stuff with this sort of Maiden re-recorded, all the old stuff that we weren't
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on...
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myself, Bruce, and H.
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So there you go, you never know.
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By the way, here's a joke for ya.
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I gotta tell you this before I leave, because I'm running out of time.
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And...
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yeah, it's like this, see.
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Superman and Batman talking to one another one day, so Superman says, "'
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Ere Bat."
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Yeah, what, what's the matter Sup?" He said, "
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I was out having a little jaunt over at central park the other
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day", he said, "
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I had a touch of the (unintelligible), and you'll never guess what!" He said, "
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What't that
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Sup?" He said, "
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I f'king looked down...
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strike me down, there's Wonder Woman wiggling about, legs up in
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the air, lassoo, all that old stuff...
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ooh, she must be having a good time...
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f'king hell, what's she doing!" He
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says, Batman says, "
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Well what did you do?" He said, "
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Well I got f'king serious touch of the hardon, didn't I?
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It nearly shot me out to Jupiter!" He said, "
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Did it?" He said, "
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No, I got as far as Mars!" He said, "
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F'king hell,
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that was a touch, wasn't it?" He said, "
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More than that!
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I came back I had such a bone-on, there she was
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wiggling and wobbling out on the grass, f'king legs up in the air...
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oh, she was rubbing her dun great tits!
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Rubbing her thighs...
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and she was just kinda caressing...
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oh!
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I couldn't resist!" Batman says, "
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Well what did
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you do then, Sup?" He said, "
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Well, I unzipped my boy...
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you know, my fly, and I got my boy out and I
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f'king shot damn about a thousand feet!" He said, "
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Did ya?" He said, "
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Yeah!
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f'king great!" Batman says,
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Well, what happened then?" He said, "
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Well, it f'king landed on top of her!" He said, "
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Did ya!" He said,
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F'king right!" He said "
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I bet Wonder Woman was real surprised, weren't she?" He said, "
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Yeah, not half as
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surprised as the bleedin Invisible Man!" Hahahahahahah!
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Hahahah! (drums something) Oh dear!
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Nevermind!
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I'm off!
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I'm going!
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Tada!
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