Things you get away with in the 70s - Part Two

Everything in this song, apparently. Sorry there's no real video for it, but it does give you a chance to really listen to the lyrics.

The chant at the beginning and middle-eight is actually the Maori name for a hill in New Zealand. Thanks to the power of the internet, you can now chant along perfectly:

Taumata-whaka-tangi-hanga-kuayuwo
tamate-aturi-pukaku-piki-maunga
horonuku-pokaiawhen-uaka-tana-tahu
mataku-atanganu-akawa-miki-tora

This was originally banned by Radio One when it was released in 1977, but it made a resurgence in 1979 thanks to British TV and radio comedian Kenny Everett, who played it extensively on his radio shows and used the chant as bumpers between sketches on his TV show. I really got to fall in love with it when my sister bought the soundtrack album for the Joan Collins sleazefest movie, The Bitch, and I got to play it whenever I wanted. Never did get that chant down, though.

BTW, I heartily recommend The Bitch. It's the sequel to The Stud. Both movies are ridiculously bad, and were even back in the day, but they're great popcorn trash. Imagine these were a trilogy and the final chapter was Showgirls. Yes. Entertainingly bad.