Dreadlock Holiday
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| Single by 10cc from the album Bloody Tourists |
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| Genre | Pop/Reggae | ||||
| Label | Mercury | ||||
| Writer(s) | Eric Stewart Graham Gouldman |
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"Dreadlock Holiday" is a song by 10cc. It was written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman and was the lead single from the band's 1978 album, Bloody Tourists.
The lyrics, about a white man lost in Jamaica, were based on a true story told by Moody Blues vocalist Justin Hayward about an experience he had had in Barbados;[1] it was a rare excursion into reggae for the act. It became the act's third and final number one single in the UK, and final top 10 hit, spending a single week at the top in September 1978. The single peaked at #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA. The song was later covered by Boney M on their 1985 album, Eye Dance.
[edit] In popular culture
| Some of the experiences that are mentioned are true, and some of them are ... fairly true! Graham Gouldman, The Songwriters Circle, BBC2, 1999. |
- The song is featured on the first episode, "Killeroo", of the first series of the British cult comedy The Mighty Boosh. Bob Fossil, head of the Zooniverse, dances to the first verse of the song while a confused Howard Moon looks on, before switching it off and concluding with, "And that's why I don't like cricket."
- A reworked version is the main theme for Sky Sports coverage of Cricket in the UK, with the lines "I don't like Cricket, I love it" rerecorded as "We don't like Cricket, We Love it" [2]
- The song is featured in the movie Snatch.
[edit] References
| Preceded by "Three Times a Lady" by The Commodores |
UK number one single September 23, 1978 |
Succeeded by "Summer Nights" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John |
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