The success of the title song from
Monty Python Live At Brian’s (1979) tempted millions to experiment with
whistling, almost destroying the British music industry. Takings at concert
venues and sales of LP records plummeted as ordinary people found they could
make their own entertainment, a phenomenon Jonathan King described as “morally
repugnant”.
Acting on instruction from the Lord
Privy Minstrel, the NOI mounted this memorable campaign, which ran alongside a
macabre television advertisement showing a young Dexter Fletcher whistling
himself to death in a public toilet. The music industry was eventually revivified
by the cassingle.
Can you share that song, want to heare,
ReplyDeleteI heard some of his Romantic songs
You continually out-do yourself with your curation of this timeless collection of common-sense and right-thinking. A pity we can not return to the simpler times depicted in these warnings--a time when a simple piece of paper, printed on one side and properly place, could keep a nation orderly and safe. Nowadays it's virtually impossible to even alphabetise one's sock drawer without pausing for several drinks.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, would you please make T-shirts with this design on them? I would trade you money for one.