"Dreadlock Holiday" | ||||
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Single by 10cc | ||||
from the album Bloody Tourists | ||||
Released | July 1978 | |||
Genre | Reggae, rock | |||
Length | 4:31 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Writer(s) | Eric Stewart Graham Gouldman |
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10cc singles chronology | ||||
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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. Lead vocals were performed by Graham Gouldman.
The lyrics, about a white man lost in Jamaica, and being confronted by an unpleasant dreadlocked man looking for money, were based on a true event that happened to Moody Blues vocalist Justin Hayward and Eric Stewart 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, by Top Deck (in 1987) and by Polish singer Reni Jusis (in 1999).
Some of the experiences that are mentioned are true, and some of them are ... fairly true!
Preceded by "Three Times a Lady" by The Commodores |
UK number one single 23 September 1978 |
Succeeded by "Summer Nights" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John |
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