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  • 12-09-2007 2:15pm
    #1
    Fremen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,481 ✭✭✭


    Did anyone else take ages to realise that the Kink's "Lola" is about a man?
    I feel kind of silly...


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    Andy-Pandy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭Andy-Pandy


    'Well Im not the worlds most masculine man
    But I know what I am and Im glad Im a man
    And so is lola
    Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
    Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola'


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    grumpytrousers
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    Fremen wrote:
    Did anyone else take ages to realise that the Kink's "Lola" is about a man?
    I feel kind of silly...

    you're in good company; IIRC the BBC banned it back in the day due to the explicit mention of Coca Cola, and not because it was about falling for a cross dresser.

    Not that songs about falling for transvestities should be banned, per se, but just if i was in the BBC and it was the, um, less enlightened sixties, i'd have expected more complaints from 'disgusted of Tunbridge wells' about the sexual angle!


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    TelePaul
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    Based on an actual experience of Robert Wace, the bands manager.


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    lordgoat
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    grumpytrousers wrote:
    you're in good company; IIRC the BBC banned it back in the day due to the explicit mention of Coca Cola, and not because it was about falling for a cross dresser.

    Isn't the lyric Cherry Cola (not coca cola) or was it changed?
    Why were coca cola products banned?


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    lordgoat
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    Never mind: wiki to the rescue:

    The song originally contained a reference to "Coca Cola", but the BBC refused to play it as this was considered a violation of their advertising policy. The single then had to be hastily re-recorded with the offending line changed to "cherry cola"


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    :|
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    Wow. I did not know that. Even though it's now painfully obvious.

    I feel ashamed


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    Latchy
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    Did anyone else take ages to realise that the Kink's "Lola" is about a man?
    I feel kind of silly...
    Sounds more like cross dressing With a verse that goes........ 'girls will be boys and boys will be girls' in the mixed up, muddled up , shook up world thats my Lola ......:)


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    grumpytrousers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,884 ✭✭✭grumpytrousers


    latchyco wrote:
    Sounds more like cross dressing With a verse that goes........ 'girls will be boys and boys will be girls' in the mixed up, muddled up , shook up world thats my Lola ......:)

    Aye - cos the difference between a transsexual and a transvestite REALLY matters when your friends find out and start slagging you in the pub...

    you are, however, correct...


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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Mcfly do a version of lola to ..........


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    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    latchyco wrote:
    Mcfly do a version of lola to ..........

    to what?


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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    to what?
    Mcfly .. they do a version of LOLA ,the song that was a hit for the Kinks many moons ago .....comprendi ????


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