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True Blue Songs
Hosted by True Blue - Margaret Thatcher musical · ENGLISH
Songs from the musical True Blue about Margaret Thatcher performed by Eldred Stevenson and Antonia Beamish including:
Eyes like Caligula
No such thing as society
Tina
When Margaret's around
Gotcha
Normal Norman Tebbit
Day I wasn't meant to see
Bersham fields / Fuck the north
Together we can do the greatest things
Geoffrey's lament
Assassin
I'm still a lady
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Votive Offerings
Nov 25, 200900:14:56Tap to summarizeReading of Votive Offerings
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I'm still a lady
Nov 16, 200900:04:34Tap to summarizeMargaret finally realises the game is up and sings mournfully of her triumphs and with some bitterness of her betrayal. "I started with Sir Kieth when Heath was chief and we didn't like how things were run."
Transcribe →Assassin
Nov 16, 200900:05:23Tap to summarizeMargaret finally has a challenger also blonde and clever in Micheal Heseltine. Here they vie for the support of the conservative MPs. "they're gathering the beasts from country and town, they're coming to fight for Margaret's crown"
Transcribe →Geoffrey's Lament
Nov 16, 200900:03:54Tap to summarizeThe final betrayal of Geoffrey Howe. Geoffrey sings his heart out to the house and delivers the crushing blow to Margaret Thatcher's premiership. "I went out to bat but the willows been bust the pads are undone and so is my trust"
Transcribe →Together we can do the greatest things.
Nov 16, 200900:04:40Tap to summarizeDuet between Maggie and Ronnie. The greatest story never told. She promised to follow him to the end of the world, he promised to organise it. The other great love in Margaret Thatcher's life sings of their great deeds together. "they're busy and not too frantic sometimes I think life's better the other side of the Atlantic" Ronnie:you let us launch our cruise Maggie: I made that speak in Bruges
Transcribe →Bersham Fields / F&ck the North
Nov 16, 200900:05:43Tap to summarizeThe mournful and heartrending Bersham Fields which depicts the struggles of Britain's mining community gives way to the triumphant bouncy city of London number sung by a crowd of mad goblins called f&ck the north. "by a northern pithead wall I heard a young man call nothing matters but solidarity. The fields are quiet near Bersham where once the pitwheel spun." "where on earth are you from? you from? you from? Do you want to put some braces on?"
Transcribe →The day I wasn't meant to see
Nov 14, 200900:04:09Tap to summarizeBrighton bombing. Margaret faces an assasination attempt from the IRA which kills and injures her colleagues. Margaret survives and this is the end of the first act. "explosions in my mind linger long in my mind, friends and colleagues broken in a blast that's meant for me." The day I wasn't meant to see Margaret rising from the ashes of the Brighton bomb sings of the day she wasn't meant to see and mourns the colleagues lost.
Transcribe →Normal Norman Tebbit
Nov 14, 200900:05:57Tap to summarizeNorman Tebbit announces himself in characteristically boisterous style. Norman Tebbit the clown prince of the cabinet. Essex man made song. "Good evening I'm from Essex, and in case you couldn't tell I'm normal Norman Tebbit and I'm doing very well."
Transcribe →Gotcha!
Nov 14, 200900:03:37Tap to summarizeGotcha! Sun headline and jazz funk classic. This jaunty song is the turning point of Margaret's premiership as the vsinking of the Belgrano with the loss of hundreds of lives shifts people's focus from the terrible economic conditions. Falklands war. Jazz funk classic of Gotcha. "Don't cry for Argentina, truth is we should have seen her,coming up there on the horizon to take the Falklands, no man's an island."
Transcribe →When Margaret's around
Nov 14, 200900:03:37Tap to summarizeWhen Margaret's around. Denis Thatcher sings of his love for Margaret Roberts the grocer's daughter. Denis is the love of Margaret's life and the mainstay for her. "we met when she was stuck in Kent and she took a lift of me, I thought she was the prettiest thing that I'd ever seen."
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