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Top 15 Songs Revived


Our local rag, The News, publishes a “Daily Graphic”. This one struck a chord with me.

No matter if you agree with the content of this list or not, there are some cracking tracks here.

https://app.portsmouth.co.uk/full_page_image/page-11-2015/content.html

My personal favourite is Red Right Hand by Nick Cave and the Lightning Seeds,

closely followed by Led Zeppelins Immigrant Song

I chose the YouTube links based on their reference to the shows that used the tunes.

Other versions are available.

Do you have a favourite classic track that has been given a new lease of life, or introduced to a new audience due to its appearance in a film or TV show ?

Some Of My Favourite Films


What are your top ten favorite movies?

Choose your top ten movies ! An almost impossible task. Like music, your enjoyment of a film is affected by your mood at the time. So here goes, here are my “current” favourites ….

  • Gunga Din
  • Dirty Harry
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Zulu
  • North by North West
  • Bullitt
  • The Man Who Would Be King
  • The French Connection
  • True Grit (John Wayne version)
  • The Italian Job (Michael Caine version)

My list is not definitive. Nor is it in any particular order. Ask me again tomorrow, and I’ll probably choose some different films. Even as I look back I’m thinking I should have included more recent releases.

Where are the Star Wars and Pink Panther series !!! I missed out Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles and many more that have given me great pleasure over the years.

Note that I have selected the original versions of True Grit and The Italian Job. These are in my eyes classic movies, and the remakes don’t do them justice. They are not a shadow of the originals.