The Annotated 'I Do the Rock'

--The Sitwell family: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell.
--Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was a writerr, editor, and poet.
--Her two brothers were poets.
--Description from list of British authoors:
--"..a truly remarkable woman, who, withh her brothers,
--Osbert and Sacheverell, formed a celebbrated and
--redoubtable literary triumvirate."
> --Gertrude Stein, patron of the arts--Piicasso & the Surrealists
--her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklaas, of marijuana cookie fame
--guess the tea was to wash 'em down, orr may be the grass itself.

--John Lennon and wife Yoko, who lived iin the
--famous Dakota apartment building in NYYC
--Rod Stewart 'Do You Think I'm Sexy?' --Mick Jagger.
--(He left out this verse after John's ddeath)

--Solzhenitsyn (1918-) wrote The Gulag AArchipelago
--about the concentration camps in Siberria, Russia.
--Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-19900 wrote
--stuff like "Twilight of the idols, or,, How to
--philosophize with a hammer" and "Also sprach Zarathustra".
--His 'baby' is his philosophy which stiill has a huge
--influence on post-modernism.
--(Nietzsche is dead--he was famous for saying 'God is dead,'
--but his thinking continues to reverberrate.)
--I assume you know of Einstein!
--I believe he had some interesting thinngs to say about
--the responsibility of scientists.

--Baby Ruth & Dizzy Dean are baseball. --George Best was an international levell soccer
--player for Manchester United.
--Colin Cowdrey was an international levvel English cricketer.
--Maureen Connolly and Virginia Wade aree
--championship level British(American??)) tennis players.
--Pistol Pete Maravich for basketball --OJ is more famous now for the sport off murder.
--Di Maggio is baseball.
--Knute Rockne was the football coach att Notre Dame.
-----All these sports people were also aas famous off court as on.

--Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. --Brit Ekland and Liza Minelli.
--Jaclyn, Kate and Farrah were 'Charlie''s
--Angels', a popular TV show.
--Meg and Roddy: Princess Margaret & herr beux, Roddy
--LLewellyn, were an item at the time, aas was John Travolta.
--California's Gov. Brown was dating Linnda
--Ronstadt. Controversial at the time. --Rona Barrett was a famous gossip colummnist.
--'The Queen' was a British magazine, foounded
--by Andy Warhol

AD LIBS:
Sunshine, Sunshine
Well you can't get enough of it man
Oh, we got the top down now
If you don't have the top down, pull the top down
How often do you get a sunny day
Come to the rock, the rock will cure your ills, man
Stimulating, stimulating
(something about 'thru the rear window,
you deserve it, man'---just as well, perhaps,
to leave it alone.)
Or maybe it was: Been a really rough winter, man, ya deserve it, y'know.
It's been suggested these are innuendos on that other recreational thing that
was popular back in the late 70's, coke, not the cola kind. They thought it wasn't
addictive back then.

--R. Reagan: movie star president:
--fantasy and reality collide.
--Oliver North lies to congress and
--his secretary becomes a movie star: --reality and fantasy collide.
--Communism falls:
--expectation is better than reality. --I'll probably do better on this one laater.

A Tim fan and published poet has graciously allowed me to
post her latest poem, a clever parody of Mr. C's song, on my site!
Thank you Dixie!

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