Bang Bang

Album: Initial Success (1979)
Charted: 2
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Songfacts®:

  • Although he had been recording since the early '70s, "Bang Bang" was the song that broke through for B.A. Robertson. Released in 1979 on the Asylum label, it runs to 3 minutes 21 seconds and was co-written with Terry Britten, who also produced it.
  • "Bang Bang" is what might be described as an amiable romp through history's greatest love affairs, which apparently included Sherlock Holmes and a certain mind-altering drug. As is well known, Conan Doyle's famous fictional detective was a cocaine addict - a substance that was perfectly legal in Victorian England - but the allusion to this in the song prompted a minor act of censorship.

    The line, "Sherlock Holmes alone preferred a little toke of love" was altered in one recording to "Sherlock Holmes alone preferred a little token love." >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2

Comments: 2

  • Stan from UkJulia Gale was one of the dancers. She played Carol Yates in the early series of Grange Hill
  • Theaxeman69 from WalesWho were the dancers in the video please?
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