Tuesday 15 July 2008

I want some act-shon, I want to live..



Happy 55th birthday today to Disco diva Alicia Bridges, whose camp anthem I Love The Nightlife was given a new lease of life in the 1990s when it featured prominently in Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

Of course I remember the song from the first time around in 1978, at the crest (and ultimately the start of the demise) of the Disco boom - and at the height of my teenage testosterone boom, too!

A (suddenly) tall fifteen-year-old, I was proud to be the only one of my friends to get served at the bar in the local youth club in Newport (South Wales), all the while buzzing to the sounds of Sylvester, Dan Hartman, Patrick Juvet and Miss Bridges...


[I only wish I could say they were all happy memories, but given the time it took me to finally leap screaming from the closet (I was 21) those teenage years were somewhat clouded by angst. I should have taken heed of the words!]

Ooooh I, I love the nightlife
I got to boogie
On the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the night life
I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea

Please don't talk about love tonight
Please don't talk about sweet love
Please don't talk about being true
And all the trouble we've been through
Ah, please don't talk about all of the plans
We had for fixin' this broken romance
I want to go where the people dance
I want some action
I want to live
Action, I got so much to give
I want to give it
I want to get some too

Ooooh I, I love the nightlife
I got to boogie
On the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the night life
I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea

Please don't talk about love tonight
Your sweet talking won't make it right
Love and lies just bring me down
When you've got women all over town
You can love them all and when you're through
Maybe that'll make, huh, a man out of you
I got to go where the people dance
I want some action
I want to live

Action
I got so much to give
I want to give it
I want to get some too

Oh I, I love the nightlife
I got to boogie
On the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the night life
I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yea

Oh, I love the night life
I got to boogie
On the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the night life
I got to boogie
On the disco 'round, oh yea
Oh, I love the night life
I got to boogie
On the disco 'round, oh yea

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