Day 234: favorite song as a ten year old

[maeve66]

I'm a little afraid of this question. I will look at what was on the charts then (though my favorite song might well have been some IRA ditty, or English traditional folk song, too). There was one song that was often sung by John Pottinger at socialist parties, e.g. parties for the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, or for Sandinista victory in Nicaragua, or whatever -- it was a Trotskyist critique of the Soviet secret police, sung to a tune by Gilbert and Sullivan. I wish I remembered the words.

Well, looking at the charts, several of them I hadn't heard of, two were instant rejects -- I certainly did not like "Silly Love Song" by Paul McCartney and the Wings, or "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee. I don't think I was sophisticated enough to like "Anarchy in the UK", though I was just about to hear of the Clash and love them. I guess, chartwise, it was Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".