A 43-year old illusion shattered

[The Red Baron]

I feel like a kid who has just found out that Father Christmas doesn't really exist. Or worse still a bloke whose dad has just been proved to be the milkman.

Ever since I first saw them on TOTP, I always thought that the sixties popsters who did that mighty tune \"The Legend of Xanadu\" were Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. Imagine my amazement, nay shock, when I discovered only today that \"Dave Dee\" was one person, not two! I'd been labouring under the misapprehension that Dave and Dee were two quite different people, not one and the same.

Anyway, after a long lie down and a chance to recapture my shattered thoughts I looked them up on You Tube. They do indeed appear to be a five-piece. I wonder why I didn't notice at the time!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuJ4GIXB5Uc

[Dutch Uncle]

I too suffered for a long time from the same illusion TRB, but in my case I managed to find out the truth after about only 25 years............

My wife on other hand still thinks the Eagles sing 'The warm smell of policemen' on Hotel California (as opposed to Galetas)

Any other longheld illusions on song texts out there?

[NorthNorfolkRover]

10 cc im not in love , quiet quiet requesting  quiet as opposed to big boys dont cry

[Berkshire Rover]

Never fell for it myself, but there was the Sue Lawley thing instead of So Lonely, The Police

[Savvy]

Wasn't there a Johnny Nash Classic \"I can see Deidre now Lorraine has gone\"!

[BillyStubbsTears]

See, I've long thought that the decline of the English race, to the depths of the riots of this week began with this load of semi-literate ballacks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBFH9R3cg4

Think about it. We had not long before defeated the biggest evil on the planet. We still bestrode the planet as a collosus. Immediately after this, we had devaluation, flying pickets, rampant inflation, Maggie, Toxteth, Scargill, Black Monday, Black Wednesday, Iraq, MPs' expenses, the banking crisis, Gideon and the Riots.

Hang the five of the bas**rds I say.

Anyway, for years, until the dawn of internet lyric sites in fact, I was certain that Marc Bolan was seranading their Gert with the line, \"You've got the feet of a white euphonium.\"

Many years later, I met a Denaby lass with a different part of her anatomy that resembled the horn of a euphonium. And she were dirty and sweet an all, but that's another story altogether...

EDIT: 'kin 'ell. Gideon and the Riots. What a name for a band. Now, where's me Boss drum and Akai synth?

[Donnywolf]

I feel like a kid who has just found out that Father Christmas doesn't really exist. Or worse still a bloke whose dad has just been proved to be the milkman.

Ever since I first saw them on TOTP, I always thought that ........!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuJ4GIXB5Uc

THANK GOD that sentence did not continue .....Pans People were MEN !

[Muttley]

You've Got The Love - \"Sometimes I feel like throwing my pants up in the air\"

[CusworthRovers]

It's like that song where people think it's:

This song is f**kin shit and a complete hyped up to death noise to rip all the kids off

when she actually says

Swagger Jagger

[i_ateallthepies]

ABBA - Chiquitita....'take your teeth out tell me what's wrong'

[Filo]

It's like that song where people think it's:

This song is f**kin shit and a complete hyped up to death noise to rip all the kids off

when she actually says

Swagger Jagger

Aye up have you come out of hibernation?

[Bentley Bullet]

Remember when Desmond Decker's ears were alight, and Mick Hucknell sang about a way to stop his from sticking out?

Then later Macy Gray claimed that she 'wore goggles when you were not here'

[RobTheRover]

It's like that song where people think it's:

This song is f**kin shit and a complete hyped up to death noise to rip all the kids off

when she actually says

Swagger Jagger

Aye up have you come out of hibernation?

Its Cussy's annual pilgrimage to Benidorm.....

[Thinwhiteduke]

These are absolute classics....

\"Bald-headed woman... bald-headed woman to me\" - More Than A Woman (Bee Gees)

\"'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.\" - Purple Haze (Jimmy Hendrix)

\"The smell of fat chicks just puts a smile on my face.\" - Suffragette City (David Bowie)

\"Hold me close. Tie me down, sir.\" - Tiny Dancer (Elton John)

\"It doesn't make a difference if we're naked or not.\" - Living On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

\"See that girl, watch her scream, kicking the dancing queen\" - Dancing Queen (Abba)

\"Heathcliff. It's me; I'm a tree, I'm a wombat.Oh, so cold at the end of your winter\" - Wuthering Heghts (Kate Bush)

[The Red Baron]

Remember when Desmond Decker's ears were alight, and Mick Hucknell sang about a way to stop his from sticking out?

Then later Macy Gray claimed that she 'wore goggles when you were not here'

I still think Desmond Dekker sings \"wife and me kids they f**k off and-a leave me\"- I think it should be \"pack up.\"

I also used to think Stevie Wonder sang \"thirteen months on baked beans\" in Superstition- not \"thirteen month old baby.\"

[belton rover]

I always thought it funny that Michael Jackson always said 'the girl is not my son'.