The Plastic Ono Band: Give Peace a Chance

March 21, 2008 on 9:07 am | In Friday Protest Songs, Music, Video | Leave a Comment

The Friday Protest Song for March 21, 2008
“You won’t get it unless you want it, and we want it now.”

I think it’s appropriate to feature a hymn on Good Friday, a prayer offered up by one prophet for a day that commemorates the sacrifice of another. Happy Easter!

The Plastic Ono Band: Give Peace a Chance

One, two, one two three four

Everybody’s talking about
Bagism, Madism, Dragism, Shagism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism
Ism, Ism, Ism

All we are saying, is give peace a chance.
All we are saying, is give peace a chance.

Everybody’s talkin’ bout’ Ministers,
Sinisters, Banisters and Canisters,
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Popeyes,
and Byebye, Byebyes

All we are saying, is give peace a chance.
All we are saying, is give peace a chance.

Everybody’s talking about
Revolution, Evolution, Masturbation,
Flagellation, Regulation, Integrations,
Meditations, United Nations,
Congratulations.

All we are saying, is give peace a chance.
All we are saying, is give peace a chance.

Everybody’s talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary, Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan,
Tommy Cooper, Derek Tayor, Norman Mailer, Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna,
Hare Hare Krishna

All we are saying, is give peace a chance.
All we are saying, is give peace a chance.

Invisible Zoo on the set of the Music Video Nobody’s Girl

March 8, 2008 on 2:00 pm | In Music, Family and Friends | Leave a Comment

It’s so much fun to dig through boxes.

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Left to right:
the lead actress Rita Corey, the video’s director, Invisible Zoo members Andy Robinson and Doug Lynner, their interpreter, and some other obscured people.

The Music Video for Invisible Zoo’s minor hit single Nobody’s Girl was filmed in 1983. Its back story is a sitcom: a sign language interpreter hired by the band misunderstands the lyrics to the song, and decides that singers Doug and Andy are insinuating that she is a tramp. Mortally offended, she sues, wins, and literally before they can turn around, Andy and Doug have lost everything to her and are exiled to obscurity. Bill Boydstun, above the fray, gets the girl.

The video is very funny, even if you don’t know sign language. Nobody’s Girl won a Governor’s Award for improving the employability of the disabled, or whatever. I’m not sure of its actual title, we must have it in another box somewhere.

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