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If you've been with us at 5 to 2 each day you'll have heard the cavalcade of songs being nominated in our search for Greatest Opening Line. The upside is that some afternoons it's been the most exciting thing on the programme; the downside is that some afternoons it's been the most exciting thing on the programme.
Just to prove there is no rigging going on inside the office, no funny business with the hanging chads, my own favorite (David Bowie: 'Baby I've been breaking glass in your room again') is not included below. We're listing the ones that have come up again and again, but this is not the final shortlist. Nominations won't close for a while because it's too much fun. So keep telling us your fave lines by emailing me or writing them up on the message board. And find out more about great songwriting with Sold on Song. |
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"So you think you can tell heaven from hell, blue skies from pain - can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?"
Artist: Pink Floyd
Track: Wish You Were Here
From: Paul Hammond - "It made the hairs on my neck stand up."
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"Wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom!"
Artist: Little Richard
Track: Tutti Frutti
From: Paul McNelis - "Loud, brash, incredibly annoying to parents."
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"Saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand walking through the streets of Soho in the rain, he was looking for a place called Lee Ho Flicks gonna get himself a big bowl of beef chow mein."
Artist: Warren Zevon
Track: Werewolves of London
From: Stephen Webster - "How good is that - Warren Zevon is a genious."
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"Guess I should have known by the way you parked your car sideways that it wouldn’t last."
Artist: Prince
Track: Little Red Corvette
From: Carl Gillingham
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"I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now."
Artist: The Smiths
Track: Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
From: James Kelly
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"Emily tries but misunderstands, she's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow."
Artist: Pink Floyd
Track: See Emily Play
From: David Beedham of Rotherham
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"I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis - she tried to take me upstairs for a ride."
Artist: Rolling Stones
Track: Honkey Tonk Woman
From: David Stanley
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"I never thought it'd happen with me and a girl from Clapham."
Artist: Squeeze
Track: Up The Junction
From: Mark Willis - "It has to be the best or should that be the most stupid."
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"Oh it's so funny to be seeing you after so long girl, and the way you look I can tell that you are not impressed."
Artist: Elvis Costello
Track: Alison
From: John Page
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"Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street."
Artist: Joe Jackson
Track: Is She Really Going Out With Him.
From: Brian Brame -
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"Get your motor running, head out on the highway, looking for adventure and whatever comes our way!!"
Artist: Steppenwolf
Track: Born To Be Wild
From: Hamish in Bristol -
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"If tomorrow is judgement day and I’m standing on the front line, and the Lord asks me what I did with my life, I will say I spent it with you."
Artist: Whitney Houston
Track: My Love is Your Love
From: Kathy Morgan - "I'm not a religous girl at all but it moves me a lot!"
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"Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light."
Artist: The Police
Track: Roxanne
From: Chris Aslett in Kettering
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