BILLY IDOL's first band that made a few bucks. The educated class's punk band.
This is a cover version of a song that JOHN LENNON recorded. Idol purported to hate the hippy generation, when he was young--but has recanted, as he has matured.
He supposedly yelled insults at JOHN BONHAM (Led Zeppelin; drummer) out across a parking lot, once . . .
They all made fun of each other, and purported to hate each other. Divide-&-conquer . . .
That's his bleached-blonde smirk on the right.
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"Gimme Some Truth " --John Lennon
(The following lyrics are not Lennon's song's lyrics, verbatim . . . They're much lazier and self-absorbed.)
I'm sick to death of hearing things
From neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the TRUTH
Just gimme some TRUTH
I'm sick & tired of reading things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the TRUTH
Just gimme some TRUTH
No short-sighted, yellow-bellied*, son of Tricky Dicky**
Is gonna Mother Hubbard*** soft-soap**** me
With just a pocketful of hope
For money for dope
I've had enough of seein' things
From tight-lipped, condescending, momma's little chauvinists
All I want is the TRUTH
Just give me some TRUTH
I'm sick to death of hearin' things
About [ . . . ] two-bit, ladder-climbing socialites
All I want is the TRUTH
Just give me some TRUTH
No short-sighted, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna Mother Hubbard soft-soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
For money for dope
TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH!
TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH! TRUTH!
All I want is the TRUTH
Just gimme some TRUTH
(All I want)
All I want is the TRUTH
Just gimme some TRUTH
(All I want)
All I want is the TRUTH
Just gimme some TRUTH
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---The final 1/3 of the song is just a band that wasn't good enough, yet. Just instrumental filler, really.
* - "Yellow-bellied" means "not having courage; cowardly."
** - "Tricky Dick" was a nick-name given to President Richard "Dick" Nixon.
*** - "Mother Hubbard" is from a classic child's nursery rhyme.
**** - "Soft-soap" is a colloquial verb/term: "To try to persuade someone to do what you want by saying pleasant things to them."
--JOHN LENNON's original lyrics had more verses; more insight into TRUTH, and the lack thereof.
