Yes Bryan, it's August all right - August 13, the birthday of the gloriously named Cliff Fish. Rejecting the obvious career path of joining Country Joe and the Fish, Cliff co-founded Paper Lace (Billy Don't Be A Hero), thereby bringing joy to millions. According to Wikipedia, the band at one time numbered Carlos Santana among its members, but that, I suspect, tells us more about Wikipedia than Paper Lace. Anyway - happy birthday, Cliff Fish, from the blog that remembers. (Is Cliff, I wonder, a descendant of Preserved Fish III, already immortalised on this blog?)
I believe it's Castro's birthday too. Is the old boy still alive?
Monday, August 13, 2007
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
he really should have changed his name to Fidel Fish. Or perhaps Cliff Castro.
ReplyDeleteAh, the Oldie classics involved with a Fish. Yes, Billy Don't Be a Hero, and, of course, the true sentiment expressed in Country Joe's - how did it go? - 'Give us a ... '
ReplyDelete"When the fish bites/ With his pearly whites....."
ReplyDeletemy father's birthday too, a good old-fashioned tyrant, child & wife-beater and all-round destroyer, classic Leo, really.
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