Life on Mars: It's A Wonderful Life

Terrific telly. Beating up the wrong man. Constantly. Heaven and Earth. Life and Death. Love and Hate. BAFTA and RTS. The Shameless of 06-07. The Talking Heads track Heaven would have been fully a decade out of time. But there was plenty of that in this series. This is the tune and the lyric that came to my mind towards the denouement.

Everyone is trying to get to the bar.
The name of the bar, the bar is called Heaven.
The band in Heaven plays my favorite song.
They play it once again, they play it all night long.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

There is a party, everyone is there.
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.
Its hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, and so much fun.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.

When this kiss is over it will start again. It will not
be any different, it will be exactly the same.
It's hard to imagine that nothing at all
could be so exciting, could be so much fun.

Heaven is a place where nothing every happens.
Heaven is a place where nothing every happens. MP3 HERE

TRIVIA MOMENT: This was perhaps the stand out song of the pre-purge Simply Red, Just Red, Simply Mick etc experimental band. A kind of Al Green fronts Buzzcocks. The smoothed out band did include it on their debut Picture Book.

Myself and Brooky who now lives at the other end of my road - as City Life Magazine - promoted the Red's last home town gig, at the late lamented Tropicana on Oxford Street, before they signed to Seymour "I must have that voice" Stein's Elektra.

Mog was the bass player in the rougher hewn version. Doreen sang BVs in both. The Cousins did 20 arena gigs with them to kick off their world tour 99-00. The band worked as a jazz-folk trio (NME) and this pissed Mick off as he liked the Bass and Drums on our recordings.