There is nothing better than having the suggestion
To share your shower and kettle with someone to rightly save a bob or two,
I just have to ask the obvious question
How do I get the sexy film star to share my bathroom, kitchen or loo?
My shower is only just the right size for me to wash
My kettle, since I don’t drink beer, my only joy
The bathroom is tiny, it would be a squash
Could you imagine the starlet saying, “O.K then boy
It was only at the end
that I realised that I was my imaginary friend’s
imaginary friend.
That all I had desired and loved was really all they had ever
wanted. Even if at the moment of desperation I should make the ultimate
sacrifice, arms outstretched and one foot hovering in the air ready to leap
a thousand buildings and a hundred memories with
a smile on my invisible face;
they would pull me back, talk loudly and with a blaze
of anger and energy
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *
If you are going to do an album of cover songs by one of the greatest duos of American popular music then it not only has to be good, it has to be sensational and given a new twist. Thankfully Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, the folk singer Will Oldham, have not only managed this but have done it with such style and with due deference to the Everly Brothers that the songs could well have been written in the last year given their freshness and contemporary feel.