paper was light gold in medieval times
i want tobacco sugar
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that everything we thought we knew about
the world
might turn out to be completely wrong
from the long run
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tree
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i don't like the look of that face it's
looking old
ah that's better desmond ambrose 58 and
not a mark on you
oh yes there is where there
oh yeah we're supposed to be spring
cleaning
i'll be rate you going it'll be spring
before we finish
are you going tony i know sweet as a nut
shell just leave the money in the usual
place
you mean to tell me you're giving it
only joking days
what are you doing with that shower cap
on your head because me don't want to
get water in my hair
why are you supposed to be washing the
floor yes we know that but we supposed
to be spring cleaning
so we cleaning the shop from top to
bottom
in that case we will clean the top and
you only have to clean it's bottom
spring cleaning dry cleaning michael
yes well i suppose it's good to see the
old shop being cleaned i've been asking
for months
michael do you consider yourself a man
of action
yes a man of driving ambition that gets
things done
definitely getting closer so why haven't
you cleaned the shop yourself
brother look i've got to go back to work
i only came in to put this poster up
see the bank are sponsoring a talent
competition to celebrate pop
i don't like that word for music no no
no no
you've got it all wrong you see p.o.p
stands for proud of
peckham oh yes i've heard about that
ah p.o.p proud of peckham and you're
running a music competition hmm
i like it i like it yes it is good isn't
it it was my idea of course of course it
would be
a thousand pounds first place what
that's a lot of money michael you're
sure that thing and just encourage greed
rather than
musicianship oh you hear that book why i
like when you talk nice like that
musicianship
dear one man cheek well i think you have
to offer young people incentives today
mother
well it still don't look right to me in
my day this was all the incentive we
needed
in that right footpath yeah so what is
it first prize
june 1959 local heats of the national
steel bank competition
oh you know that i used to clean them my
father
can spring clean the muscles he's the
bloody soul thing now give me that
tony that trumpet got the best chat up
lines i ever heard
name that tomb
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nope let me see this could really be
difficult
could it possibly be the georgetown
dreamers featuring
desmond jazzy d ambrose on trumpet
augusta spoke by grant on guitar hello
this is you
that's wicked we know
you're not thinking of entering that
competition are you well i just
that competition is to give young people
a chance since when of young people
given us a chance it says nothing about
age on that poster
all it says is music competition p.o.p
pop and i'm a pup
you tell him listen there's no fool like
an old fool desmond remember that but
any old fool can win a thousand pounds
remember that
yes you want to remix this and enter
that competition mate i tell you
people are into revivals nowadays it's
true sam cook
jackie wilson oh they're really kicking
it you know you mean they kick the
bucket them then
i don't want to be dead for my revival i
want to be around
and alive to spend my cut i don't know
i'm not a fan please and sweet sticks
died
well very soon yeah i could play the
pants well you know about playing plans
we'd really look like old fools with a
young armature on the stage next to us
well i can mix it for you what you know
about mixing why don't you have to go to
school
yeah yeah i'm going i'll see you later
old man you better
play i mean these youngsters have no
respect for the elders there's only one
way to teach them respect
and that's through our music listen up
naman let's show them that we is not too
old
i believe you've said the first sensible
thing all day don't tell surely anything
about this
the georgetown dreamers ride again
if the rolling stones can do it so can
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we
i'll always
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another life
if we're going to reform this ban
vincent and me would like to see a few
changes made like what
stand in front of me on stage so that
nobody could see my face
standing in front of you is you who does
always stand in front of me
oh you what go on have a guess
12 because that is all you behaving i am
not
behaving like a 12 year old all right
i'll tell you what
four fire and bird will stand side by
side on the stage you happy
yes no so what's your problem you ronnie
the drummer
is just what you want tell us facebook
this competition one thousand pounds how
much
a thousand pounds for that sort of money
i will stand behind the drum kit
are we overlooking a big problem
sweet sticks most people unclear what
about your son michael
no michael doesn't have a musical bone
in his body
his idea of music is the song of coins
rattling in his pocket sean would be
good
that boy has natural rhythm no i am sure
you can coaching truth
father han ding-dong to son well i dare
say you could learn
but desmond you already told sean you
didn't want him he's my son i can tell
him he's no good
can i also tell him that he's good but i
don't think that shawn will be a
georgetown
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mom dad's not really going to enter the
competition isn't he
well i'm supposed to know i'm i tony
my lips are sealed do you reckon he can
still whack it yeah i suppose being a
musician's like riding a bicycle
you never forget no but you can't fall
off
and i just don't want desmond to hurt
himself too much
what sort of musician is he he's
miraculous by the sounds of things
do you know louise that man could chat
women while playing a trumpet
well tony most men would benefit from
blowing that trumpet
instead of blowing their arms yeah yeah
yeah yeah i agree i agree with you
louise bc
i'm not most man
upstairs i'm relying on you going shoot
shoot
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ah listen i don't have to stand next to
do i no i mean yes
uh where's shirley hmm upstairs ah tony
today is a new day
the georgetown dreamers are back on the
map we're gonna make everybody sit up
and listen
i don't think shirt is gonna like that
including shirley this is my house
and if i want to reform the band i can
you showed me yeah
oh desmond ambrose
you are cool
you are bald hello desmond
charlene yes you are remember that um
music competition don't tell me you
reform the ban
and you're gonna enter well not if you
mind it's just that the boys then phoned
me up and asked me to reform the band
it's not good that's nice
isn't it isn't that right pogba yeah man
you sure yes man bros have i ever stood
in your way
ah sure are we dead you want to talk to
me
yes who do you want that nothing does no
father want to talk to his son
what is this i thought you didn't talk
to amateurs amateurs
is that what i called you no what i
meant was how would you like me to teach
you to play the pants
yeah so what's in it for me well me my
expertise
that age-old tradition of a father
handing down his skills
to himself with hard work and discipline
i bet ten pound extra pocket money a
week during rehearsals ah three
five done done i thought you said a cop
was the only incentive young people
needed
yes but sometimes you have to uh
compromise
uh where is that boy like father like
son
i was never lit yes
all right ready one two three four
yes you're late just get your backside
behind you
you know i'm just gonna get my computer
first computer sean don't get me mad man
just get on those steel pants
you don't expect me to play that do you
oh no i wasn't expecting you to play
anything what are you expecting to play
a hard disk i thought they were called
floppies no when you put large music on
them parks
no you can do everything on this bass
drums guitar everything
sean i don't want you to play everything
i just want you to play the pants like i
thought
yeah but dad and i'm paying you remember
i want you to have these oh but dad man
there's sweet sticks
sticks yes i know i'm easier than you my
son and the boys thought you should use
it
all right enough of the sentimental this
is strictly instrumental okay
georgetown dreamers take one two
three four
take two three four five
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it sounded good well i've heard better
father i've been thinking maybe you
should change your name from the
georgetown dreamers you know it's it's
it's too remote maybe
you should change your name to the
peckham pixies
maybe i should go upstairs yes
oh go on come on you can get beyond the
intro
of course they can just give them time
do you think they finish this tune
before the end of the year i know i just
just have the
intro is a little bit tricky it's just
that the
intro is a little bit tricky you sound
like an old pro mrs ambrose
you've heard of groofies yeah well i
was the original i certainly hope not
or i hate it when he sneaks in like that
gloria i didn't sneak in i walked in
sneaking is an adolescent phrase and
it's high time you grew up and by the
way mother
today's definition of groupie means
oh well i followed a one man man
that was your father
michael's your mind gloria this is
business
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what you up to your nose is twitching
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damn it's engaged i was hoping peter was
gonna get a couple of booking for the
georgetown dreamers
oh your father didn't tell me my father
doesn't know yet
oh yes what's in it for you
mother look i mainly want to make sure
they don't get ripped off
there's a lot of sharks out there in
today's music business
there's a shark in there
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leave the pond to the big fish
life will play that was stupider well
you all always have to make fun of me
we don't make fun of you as you do it to
yourself put it this way poke pie
without you i wouldn't laugh as much so
at least you're doing something positive
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what about the stupid things you have
done like what
like that gig in soho you was chatting
up that woman
you went to the toilet she followed you
and you thought your luck was in then
you ran out screaming
it's a man
all that time vince when you was going
back to see that woman in birmingham
you jump in your car it wouldn't start
missing
well we had a nice day janet and i yeah
you're scheming at that time
oh this one the only thing i want here
is you playing the pants properly
yeah well dad i've been thinking about
the tune he'd be thinking about it
give the boy some encouragement desmond
all right all right what you been
thinking
well for starters the tune needs more
dance ability dance ability
yeah more up tempo
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up a sampling dad but if there is a
sample i ain't buying nothing
sean tell your friends it's time they
went home to bed yes mom
everybody have to come out let's just
stand with the children to go to bed
desmond bed
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put it on what's going on just put it on
i don't even know if this will fit me
anymore
oh this suit is so bright i'm surprised
it didn't blame me
well in them days it certainly put the
dazzle in your raffle
yes boy when our mother chops used to
see us
on the stage dress up in our sharp suits
they couldn't come near us
did we use the bodies yes the hottest
sound around
yes but that was guyana this is england
you don't think i'm making um making a
fool of yourself nah
people will see you for what you are a
good musician
uh sometimes surely i could kiss you all
over
leave that for later
now in the meantime say goodbye to mrs
ambrose
and hello to my shirley pleasure
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desmond let go meow can we do it
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to look all them years ago yeah man i
used to wait outside the dance house
just to get a little glimpse of you
sometimes i couldn't stay to the end you
know otherwise my
father would kill me i
we really used to cut the style yeah
jazzy and sexy legs
i thought you said this dress couldn't
fit you it don't
look
oh my shirley yes rude boy would you
like to drive
until i died
two parents were living in their teens
and you weren't born yet so good night
show
yes
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do you think they would have organized
this thing we've been waiting ages
there's been all the bands around here
too young yes or no
hello hello what's that
steel pen i know what it is hey
you're not gonna play that are you
that's ancient guy what's wrong with it
oh i see we dad love to hold your hand
shane why don't you just go and get lost
eh what's the name of your band
the georgetown
let's go what i've said let's go desmond
where you going
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i've never been so humiliated in my life
why what happened
oh you don't want to know get up
come on desmond what happened was that
we were standing in this queue and this
little feast the gallery oh shut up
popeye
everything where did you get that suit
from the salvation army
looks like a four tops reject man you
see these kids they have no respect
anymore
kids i don't know why we have them it
seems the only one to get to an age
where allah can do is insult me
oh no not all kids some i mean look at
our three
louise is a nice girl
so father does this mean that you won't
be doing the gig tonight yes
no last what did you arrange michael
oh nothing well nothing that can't be
cancelled anyway
well i better go and cancel the holiday
i book with my share the prize bunny
you didn't look a holiday did you only
joking
what would you have done with the prize
money desmond bought a cup probably
i was going to get you a new outfit ah
new suit guitar and what about you vince
a drum machine because i tell the
pacquiao item things around
gentlemen now i know you might be
feeling a bit downcast but i'd like you
to know that all your diligence and hard
work during rehearsals has not gone to
waste i've been preparing a little
surprise for you
remember this
dance ability well we did this with it
that's my jazzy diddy
then we sampled your drum vince and your
baseline bert
even your trumpet dab and we came up
with this and what did you do with my
guitar
oh well machines are no substitute for
real feeling pork pie i'm gonna need a
little live
give help some of the old magic
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listen
that is the music of my son's show i
thought in everything you know
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do
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so