Mélancolie... subtile... bonheur.... solaire... les Kinks, les Kinks, les Kinks et encore Môssieur Raymond Douglas Davies! Cela pourrait se trouver du côté béatud' hits et autres kitcheries culinaires, mais après le coup de "Bang Bang" faut pas trop forcer... J'avoue un réel plaisir à vous libérer enfin ma chanson fétiche, composée d'un texte exquis sur une mélodie lumineuse. Pourquoi "Celluloid heroes", si belle et célèbre aux Etats-Unis, n'est-elle pas plébiscitée en France à sa juste valeur? Chez nous qui apprécions le combo royalle , dans un pays amoureux de cinéma comme le notre. Mystère! Invoquer le long format? Outre Atlantique, "Stairway to Heaven" du Zeppelin, "Dream on" d'Aerosmith, la perle qui nous intéresse ici, pour ne citer qu'elles, passaient ou passent encore en boucles sur les ondes malgré leur durée. Les Kinks ont changé de maison de disques au tournant des années '70, leurs titres de l'époque ne sont que rarement présents sur les compiles qui s'arrêtent en général à "Lola". Et le bruit court que leur production ne vaut plus tripette, quelle funeste erreur. Disons qu'ils ne prenaient plus depuis longtemps le train en marche, ce qui ne gâte en rien la composition de plusieurs petites merveilles comme "Sitting in my hotel", "Rock'n'roll fantasy"... Album trouvé dans le bac oublié d'un vieil hippy de l'ancienne caserne devenue communauté de Kristiana à Copenhague en '92. Puis le pressage américain quelque part dans Paris. Ils sont distincts par quelques détails, forcément subtils: la coupe de la blonde en bas à gauche... Harpo Marx remplacé par Groucho en haut à droite! "If you covered him with garbage, George Sanders will still have style"
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Everybodys a dreamer and everybodys a star,
And everybodys in movies, it doesnt matter who you are.
There are stars in every city,
In every house and on every street,
And if you walk down hollywood boulevard
Their names are written in concrete!
Dont step on greta garbo as you walk down the boulevard,
She looks so weak and fragile thats why she tried to be so hard
But they turned her into a princess
And they sat her on a throne,
But she turned her back on stardom,
Because she wanted to be alone.
You can see all the stars as you walk down hollywood boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that youve hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Rudolph valentino, looks very much alive,
And he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.
Avoid stepping on bela lugosi
cos hes liable to turn and bite,
But stand close by bette davis
Because hers was such a lonely life.
If you covered him with garbage,
George sanders would still have style,
And if you stamped on mickey rooney
He would still turn round and smile,
But please dont tread on dearest marilyn
cos shes not very tough,
She should have been made of iron or steel,
But she was only made of flesh and blood.
You can see all the stars as you walk down hollywood boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that youve hardly even heard of.
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Everybodys a dreamer and everybodys a star
And everybodys in show biz, it doesnt matter who you are.
And those who are successful,
Be always on your guard,
Success walks hand in hand with failure
Along hollywood boulevard.
I wish my life was a non-stop hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die.
You can see all the stars as you walk along hollywood boulevard,
Some that you recognise, some that youve hardly even heard of,
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
Oh celluloid heroes never feel any pain
Oh celluloid heroes never really die.
I wish my life was a non-stop hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die.
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