Turns out that I'm not alone in picking out 'Ding Dong the Witch is dead' as a fitting memorial to Thatcher. After some vigorous social media-ing it made number two in the UK pop charts this weekend. The pro-Thatcher movement kicked off a retaliatory campaign to try to get 'I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher' by punk band The Notsensibles to chart, but that only made no 35 and was apparently written as satire anyway. So that's a double fail for the Tories. Love your work old chaps.
Sadly the BBC seemed to be in the grip of paralysis about what to do during the 'Top 40 countdown' so only played 7 seconds of 'Ding Dong'. Not banned, but not played in full. So in some ways it joins other banned classics -
Relax (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
Urban Guerilla (the mighty Hawks)
Ebeneezer Goode (the Shaman)
and of course God Save The Queen (Sex Pistols)
Ironically, John Lydon (aka Jonny Rotten) considers the recent celebrations to be 'loathsome' . I think he's just offended that there are people out there protesting and he's not making anything out of it. Mrs T would be proud of what he's become.....
Sadly the BBC seemed to be in the grip of paralysis about what to do during the 'Top 40 countdown' so only played 7 seconds of 'Ding Dong'. Not banned, but not played in full. So in some ways it joins other banned classics -
Relax (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
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