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I was curious, so I went for a walk in Wikipedia:

"In 1969, Pete Townshend, The Who's guitarist, created the band to play songs written by the former Who roadie, drummer / singer John 'Speedy' Keen (miscredited as "Keene" on the single's label). Keen wrote the opening track on The Who Sell Out album, "Armenia City In The Sky". Townshend produced the single, arranged its strings, played its bass guitar under the pseudonym Bijou Drains, and hired for it eccentric GPO engineer and jazz pianist Andy 'Thunderclap' Newman (born Andrew Newman, in 1943) and the fifteen year old Glaswegian Jimmy McCulloch.

Originally titled "Revolution", but later renamed because the Beatles released a single of that name, "Something in the Air" captured post-flower power rebellion, marrying McCulloch's sweeping acoustic and glowing electric guitars, Keen's powerful drumming and yearning falsetto, and Newman's felicitous piano solo.

The single was Number One for three weeks, holding off Elvis Presley in the process. The scale of the song's success surprised everyone, and there were no plans to promote Thunderclap Newman with live performances.

Eventually a line-up, augmented by Jim Pitman-Avory (bassist) and McCulloch's elder brother Jack (drums), played a handful of gigs. Personal records say the band played live only five times, although Keen referred to a two-month tour, playing "everywhere".

"Something in the Air" appeared on the soundtracks of the films The Magic Christian (1969), Almost Famous (2000), The Dish (2000), The Girl Next Door (2004), and The Strawberry Statement (1970); the last having helped the single reach No. 25 in the United States. The song also appeared in the deluxe edition of the Easy Rider CD. In the UK, a follow-up single, "Accidents", came out only in May 1970, and charted at No. 44 only for a week, and an album Hollywood Dream, peaked in Billboard at No. 163. "Something In the Air" played at the end of the 26 March 2007 episode of The Riches on FX. An episode of the television sitcom, My Name is Earl also featured the song.

The members of the band had little in common. Newman once commented, in a 1972 interview with New Musical Express, that he got on with Keen's music but not with him personally, it was a similar case with McCulloch. Two more singles followed before the band split."

17 votes, and no comments? Is everyone laughing too hard? Another top 15. Yippee! LOL@ the relationships reference. And the "Glaswegian style" dealie. OMFG, the eating thing... oh that was ... haaaa. Hee hee, the sun.

Maybe that's why no one can comment. You stop thinking and fall down in a fit of laughter. Another great review.

Zifnab, are you just stalking the Escapist and ready to pounce on the new releases the moment they hit?

BTW, who wants to call Yahtzee a valid rep of *British humour?

Great post - I've been searching, searching, searching for a similar thing I saw on C4 here in the UK last year called something like 'The Dead Body Squad', which was fascinating.
My friend in central London came face to face with them in April this year, when it turned out that the Glaswegian junkie across the courtyard from her flat had O.D.'d and not been discovered for 10 weeks.

fanny=vagina in Glaswegian?!

The sketch is from a Scottish comedy sketch show based in and around Glasgow and making fun of the Scottish and particularly Glaswegian culture.

Ice Cream Lady : There ye go... a 99 and a bottle o' Irn Bru
There you go, you're ice cream and a bottle of Irn Bru

She then asks what the other boy wants and he says :

He's wantin' a swatch a'yer fanny

which means

He'd like a look of your vagina.

She shows them (not shown) and then drives off leaving the boys amazed. The joke being that they the boys were obviously trying to be offensive and weren't expecting her to do it. At the end of the episode of "Chewin the Fat" that this sketch was shown in you see the boys still standing there late at night with the same amazed looks on their face and their ice creams melted.