Fact And Fiction

from Live And Let Live - 2021 by Twelfth Night

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The whole 15-track show from Geoff's farewell gigs at The Marquee, London - November 1983. Remastered and lovingly compiled, and presented with a lavish 24-page full colour booklet with brand new artwork, sleeve-notes and photos. This is the brand-new 2021 version, repressed in June with new cover and disc artwork.

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Fact and Fiction
Jane Mann: “The inspiration for this song was the ridiculous government leaflet ‘Protect and Survive’ issued in 1980. It suggested that, in the event of an imminent nuclear explosion, one could make a shelter by propping a door against a wall. Really? Don’t make me laugh!”

Geoff Mann: “…the aim of all good propaganda is to angle information in such a way that it becomes ‘instant history’- history from country to country varies in favour of the heroes of the current system”.

lyrics

TV is switched on, the screen reveal a spokesperson
Adverts, politics, editing the real
Cheap words, money talks, naming itself to be the key to Utopia
Cornucopia, to a better world you go buy and buy

And if you listen carefully you can hear the bacon fly … don't make me laugh!

History shows that, policy demands weapons
Selfish desires simply lead to pain,
The chit-chat continues a big pretence that divides into power blocks
Where the orthodox have a propaganda war to fight

And if you're looking closely you can see that black is white … don't make me laugh!

If the "unthinkable" should happen and you hear the sirens call
Well you can always find some shelter behind a door against the wall

Don't make me laugh!

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from Live And Let Live - 2021, released November 5, 1983
Geoff Mann: vocals, percussion, Andy Revell: keyboards, Clive Mitten: keyboards, Rick Battersby: keyboards, Brian Devoil: drums

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Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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