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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #30 on: March 17, 2023, 06:11:14 PM »
Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?

yes I thought the same

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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #31 on: March 17, 2023, 06:13:51 PM »
Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?

yes I thought the same

Yes! Those high priests of money....


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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #32 on: March 17, 2023, 06:17:44 PM »
Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?
Really? That's interesting, I had never thought about that. The lyrics always seemed to me to be inspired by british privateers search for gold during the 17th and 18th century.

"A pack of dog jackals and a rabble of ravens
Who'll come for his fortress, his castle on high"

"His axes and armour will conquer these devils
The turbulent raiders will falter and fall
Their leaders be taken, their camps burned and levelled
They'll hang in the wind from his citadel walls"

Would have never thought it was about bankers in 2008.

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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #33 on: March 17, 2023, 06:24:31 PM »
the first two stanzas talk about modern times and the next two about ancient times.

The same old fears and the same old crimes
We haven’t changed since ancient times
I know the way I can see by the moonlight
Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home

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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #34 on: March 17, 2023, 06:50:24 PM »
Is Kingdom of Gold not about the bankers that caused the 2008 financial crisis?
Really? That's interesting, I had never thought about that. The lyrics always seemed to me to be inspired by british privateers search for gold during the 17th and 18th century.

"A pack of dog jackals and a rabble of ravens
Who'll come for his fortress, his castle on high"

"His axes and armour will conquer these devils
The turbulent raiders will falter and fall
Their leaders be taken, their camps burned and levelled
They'll hang in the wind from his citadel walls"

Would have never thought it was about bankers in 2008.

Like many of Mark's songs, I believe he uses allegories and imagary and he doesn't write in a literal way here.
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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #35 on: March 17, 2023, 07:03:46 PM »
Yes, I think those are allegorical lines. Listening to KOG I always imagined a rich banker looking at the river from his very expensive flat near the Parliament house.
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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #36 on: March 18, 2023, 02:08:19 AM »
Mark about Hill Farmer's Blues:

I know the way I can see by the moonlight
Clear as the day
Now come on woman, come follow me home

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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #37 on: March 18, 2023, 02:09:56 AM »
... I've tried to make it wok for me"
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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #38 on: March 18, 2023, 10:58:16 AM »
thanks Robson  :)
that's what I was talking about

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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #39 on: March 20, 2023, 03:55:37 PM »
I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?
any Knopfler, Floyd or Dylan will do....

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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #40 on: March 20, 2023, 04:13:54 PM »
I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

That's what he said, but can't find the interview.

Anyone knows in which interview he said that?
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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #41 on: March 20, 2023, 04:14:34 PM »
I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.

Of course he was aware....

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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #42 on: March 20, 2023, 04:27:01 PM »
I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.

Of course he was aware....

I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela.  It was very much a landmark moment.
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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #43 on: March 20, 2023, 05:06:28 PM »
I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.

Of course he was aware....

I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela.  It was very much a landmark moment.

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Re: Mark interviewed about MM and LOG (radio/podcast show)
« Reply #44 on: March 20, 2023, 08:29:27 PM »
I remember an interview about the Mandela concert where MK says something like he wasn't aware of how big it was until he read it next day, that he just ended the concert, went home, had a soup and got to bed.
which is bullshit, really, i mean, he stood there, in front of a sold out 90K+ crowd and did not realise this was a slightly bigger thing?

And of course his Clapton introduction mentioning JS's new babies - 'Just waited for this moment so that 600 million people could congratulate you for that'.

Of course he was aware....

I don't think he was really referring to the concert but to the impact the concert had in changing public opinion of Mandela.  It was very much a landmark moment.

Exactly my thoughts!
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