Gonna break out of this city leave the people here behind searching for adventure is the type of life to find tired of doing day jobs with no thanks for. Eddie and the hot rods writing on the wall discogs. The group broke up in 1985, but have reformed several years since. According to the do anything you wanna do songfacts, the lyrics were based loosely on aleister crowleys philosophy do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Jimmy page, aleister crowley and the curse of eddie and. They are best known for their 1977 uk top ten hit do anything you wanna do, released under the name the rods. So that you can join us in celebrating barrie, we have published the full done everything we wanna do show from earlier this year.
Filmed at the square, harlow, at the last show ever before the venue is closed, demolished and the site redeveloped by its owners. Their live shows became the thing of legend, as documented on the live at the marquee ep in 76. Gonna break out of this city leave the people here behind searching for adventure is the type of life to find tired of. Im gonna break out of the city leave the people here behind searching for adventure its the kind o.
Do anything you wanna do is a song written by eddie and the hot rods manager ed hollis the brother of talk talks mark hollis and guitarist graeme douglas and recorded by the band, although the actual record label credited the rods as the artist. There will be no commercial release of this show we want you to enjoy it and raise a glass to barrie. Jimmy page, aleister crowley and the curse of eddie and the hot rods posted on march 27, 20 14 comments for the full story of the curse of do anything you wanna do, see my interview with the band in this months issue of uncu t magazine. Im gonna break out of the city leave the people here behind searching for adventure its. Eddie and the hot rods were a pub rock band from essex founded in 1975. In those pre download days, holliss library was an allimportant resource. This is actually a direct quote from crowleys bible which he called the book of the law.
The rods were one of the first bands to be described by the music press as punk and in 77, with the addition of graeme douglas on guitar and songwriting, they hit the uk top 10 with the anthemic do anything you wanna do. According to the do anything you wanna do songfacts, the lyrics were based. Read about do anything you wanna do by the rods and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Eddie and the hot rods teenage depression 1977, vinyl. Bass for do anything you wanna do by eddie and the hotrods. According to this book, the music was composed by guitarist graeme douglas, and the words were written by the bands manager, ed hollis. Singer barrie masters was the only constant member until his death in 2019. Eddie and the hot rods do anything you wanna do lyrics.
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