It's time for Rock Quiz 3. In my as yet unpublished rock n roll epic, Rising Star, each chapter begins with a quote from a song. Here are the ones from 21-30. Guess the artist and song. Degree of difficulty in parenthesis. Answers below:
21 "...They're all waiting there to sell plastic ware...." (7)
22 "...She couldn't believe what she heard at all...." (5)
23 "...It's been a hard day's night...." (Duh)
24 "...I'm in the high fidelity first class...." (6)
25 "...the time to hesitate is through. No time to wallow in the mire...." (1)
26 "...You can't always get what you want...." (1)
27 "...I need a new toy to keep my head expanding...Nothing too demanding...." (8)
28 "...Wake up in the mornin' the world still gets you up tight...." (7)
29 "...I know what it means to be alone...." (8)
30 "...All I have to give you is a love that never dies...." (8)
I've never seen Duck Dynasty. I just don't think it's a show I'd like. The main figure is under attack for comments made during an interview in GQ, and he has been suspended. In effect, he called buggering, as well as sleeping around, a sin. And this is news to the media -- that a devout Christian believes homosexuality and promiscuity are sins. I wonder what percentage of Americans agree. I'd bet it's at least 30-45%. I have no problem with gay organizations going after the guy. It is understandable, as the comments are a personal affront, whether one agrees with them or not. The sad aspect is that it gives leftists an opportunity to attack a show that ends every episode in prayer. They must have been salivating, dreaming of a reason to go after the popular show and get it off the air. When the owner of Barilla pasta defended traditional marriage, he too was attacked. I now buy the pasta, hoping to help do for it what the public did when the owner of Chick-fil-A suffered the same attack on his beliefs. Too bad I don't get the station on which Duck Dynasty is broadcast. Then again, anyone offended by attacks on freedom of speech should boycott that station.
It was warm enough today that I didn't have to retreat to my car. I stood beside the books for two-and-a-half hours, chatting with well-wishers and potential customers. My thanks to the gentleman who bought yet another book in Russian, to Mike, who purchased the Ultimate Sinatra CD, and to Abdul, a new arrival to America who hopes to improve his English. He asked for easy reads, and I suggested novels by Stuart Woods and Debbie Macomber. He spotted A Hitch in Twilight. I told him about it and suggested he open it and see if it were understandable to him, certain he would pass, torn between hoping he'd buy and dread at it failing to help him realize his goal of becoming confident in the American idiom. Of course he bought, and now silly me feels as if I've done something wrong, even though I gave him three other books for free.
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And the answers are:
21. Rock ‘n Roll Star – The Byrds (McGuinn/Hillman)
22. Rock ‘n Roll – The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed)
23. The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)
24. Money – Pink Floyd (Roger Waters)
25. Light My Fire - the Doors (Jim Morrison)
26. The Rolling Stones (Jagger/Richard)
27. New Toy – Lene Lovitch (Thomas Dolby)
28. Kicks – Paul Revere and the Raiders (Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil)
29. Good Times, Bad Times – Led Zeppelin (Page/Plant/Jones/Bonham)
30. The Symptom of the Universe – Black Sabbath
To anyone who got all ten -- I'm impressed, and "I don't impress easy," as Jesse "The Body" Ventura used to say.
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