DBarker%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA (Deryk Barker) (03/18/85)
The song "One Night in bangkok" is from the new musical Chess. This has lyrics by Time Rice (JCS & Evita fame) and music by Benny and Bjorn of ABBA. The lyrics are therefore far more idiomatic than those of ABBA ever were ("Since so many years I have not seen a rifle in your hand"!) and this appears to continue the trend of put out the LP of a musical and then when you have made lots of money stage it. The song "ONIB" (already a hit in the UK) is sung by the wonderful Murray Head (writer of the extremely wonderful "Say it ain't so Joe" and actor in "Sunday Bloody Sunday) and contains gem-like lines like "I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine". Chess is apparently (topically) about a world chess championship taking place in Bangkok. It also contains a song "I know him so well" sung by Barbara Dixon and Elaine Page which is absolutely DREADFUL. (No 1 in the UK for 3 weeks!) Even worse if, like me, you can't stand Elaine Page's voice.