Originally written by Sean McGinley from Castlefin, County Donegal, the song tells the story of the 1973 escape of three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners from Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. On Hallowe'en, an IRA member hijacked a helicopter and forced the pilot to fly to Mountjoy where the three prisoners, JB O'Hagan, Seamus Twomey and Kevin Mallon, were lifted by helicopter from the exercise yard of Mountjoy Jail's D Wing at 3.40pm. The incident was a major embarrassment for the government.

As with some other Wolfe Tones songs, the lyrics use a certain comical tone to show sympathy with the Irish republican cause and narrate events linked to the Troubles in Ireland without using aggressive or sectarian language, an attribute which contributed to its popularity.


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The song was immediately prohibited from being played on RT stations[1] or was severely restricted,[2] sources vary. Despite that, the song sold 12,000 single records in the first week of release, taking it to the number one position in the Irish Singles Chart on November 22, 1973, and held that position for four weeks,[1] until it was replaced by Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody.

I've tried shazamming it, listening to the soundtrack, but still cant find it. People say it's called making amends or caps promise, but those songs don't have the part in it where he starts to hold the helicopter back.

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The Zephyr Song was released in 2002, reaching a position of 11 in the UK Singles Chart. Over a decade later, it continues to be a popular choice for radio DJs, and represents everything great about the freedom of flying. Besides, how can you skip one of the most famous songs by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers?

Harold the HelicopterWriter(s)Mike O'DonnellJunior CampbellSinger(s)ChildrenComposer(s)Mike O'DonnellJunior CampbellEditor(s)John L. WrightDirector(s)David MittonAir date5 October 1998 ((UK; Audiobook)8 March 1999 (UK; Music Video; VHS)1 July 1999 (JPN; Music Video; VHS)2000 (AUS; Audiobook)9 October 2000 (AUS; Music Video; VHS)13 February 2001 (US/CAN; Music Video)27 December 2002 (KOR; Music Video)Harold the Helicopter is a song from the fifth series dedicated to Harold. It takes its melody from Harold's theme.

Part of an ongoing series of interviews by Todd Bernhardt with Andy Partridge about the songs we feature each week on MySpace. This week's song, "tag_hash_108____________________," is from 1984's The Big Express.

AP: Yeah, those kinds of things. "Spinning Top," all that sort of stuff. No, this was just a sort of a silly song that was great to go [sings high] "boo-boo boo-boo" with. It was like playing a human siren -- it was just the joy of yelling and playing a rotor-blade guitar. You know, the whole thing probably came out of the guitar pattern sounding a bit like blades of a chopper.

AP: Probably! [Sings choppy rhythm-guitar part] It was probably, "Oh, that's a bit like the blades of a helicopter -- there we go, that's what the song's about." Sometimes it would take no more than that. In fact, that's a big thing for me -- the onomatopoeic sound of the instrument you're writing on. "Oh! That sounds like a blah-blah!" And so "Blah Blah" becomes the title of the song, or blah-blah is what the song's about. In fact, didn't it become "The Rotary"...?

AP: Yeah, that's right, in DJM Studios. I think we kept the bass and drums and re-did the guitars and vocals, and all the bits and bobs. But, when writing the song, I believe I was thinking of an ad that was painted by Frank Hampson, who was a famous artist for the Eagle comic, in England. Frank Hampson painted an ad for Lego in which there were two schoolboys with jetpacks on, flying over this Lego city -- in a Lego land, you know. And that image stuck in my brain, as a kid. Because, as a schoolboy, I thought, "Wow, that's going to be the future! We're going to have our own jetpacks -- our own helipacks -- to go to school or work, or holiday on Venus," you know. But of course it never ends up like that.

So that was subliminally in the background when this song came up. The song is just the daftest of ideas. It's about a girl who's obviously just messing around. She's just playing about. I'm kind of embarrassed to talk about this, because it's such an early, silly song.

I remember singing this live, and almost passing out, because it took so much breath. You listen to the song, especially toward the end, and it's so petulant! It's just like a long musical tantrum. Like a kid trapped in the rotor blades of a Chinook, having a tantrum before his head is sliced off!

AP: Yeah, that was my thing. What a skanker I was! [chuckles] Complete and utter skanker. Dave's playing the little, high pattern there that's almost like a chordal suggestion of what I'm singing. And I think he's following me with his Fender Strat, playing the melody. That melody of the verse is almost like an old vaudeville song or something.

TB: There's a real transition between the first two albums and this album, where you start doing the pea-soup more. About the only song on this album that perhaps you could say is left over from that first period is "Outside World," where you're hitting the song at this breakneck speed.

Since the SPEAKER development is an upgrade, denoted by the giant plus sign on the right side of its icon, you do not need to equip it explicitly. Once development is complete, the helicopter automatically has the loudspeaker built into it.

Once you have the desired song highlighted, the button to press is Square (on the PS4) for Set Helicopter Music . Your platform will show the appropriate key bind at the bottom there.

It's obviously about Bush. Like when it says"Just like his Dad, just like his Dad (the same mistakes)"Is meaning he's just like his dad when he was the presidant."Hungry and dumb, hungry and dumb (so wait in line)"Hehehe that's my favourite line.Good song, good band!

"'Helicopter' isn't about Bush; it's a song about waking up and realising certain things. I hope what people got from that song wasn't a critique of American life. I got really worried when I started reading our message boards; there was an American who had read the lyrics of "Helicopter" and had come to the conclusion that we were advocating that the European way is the ideal. But that wasn't it at all. Europeans have their own set of problems. I've personally been quite retarded by growing up in Europe; I have issues with things being messy and saying what I really feel."

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@antipunt1 actually, they said the exact opposite on launch.com. 


Here's what Okereke said: "It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all. It's a common misconception that "Helicopter" is about President Bush. It's kinda patronizing."


So no, it's not about President f***ing Bush. Why would a London indie band write about Bush?

What I want to know - what only one or two have even considered in their arguments - is the relevance of the song title. Why "Helicopter"? If it is anti-American, anti-imperialist, anti-Bush, whatever, how does Helicopter tie in to that?

Passing helicopters can cause rock arches and spires to shake up to 100 times more than they do naturally. Why? Helicopters are loud. Below the audible womp-womp, chopper blades hit distinctive frequencies too low for humans to hear. When these infrasound vibrations match pitches with the natural resonance of the rock feature, they reinforce its vibrations. The extra push can amplify the hum of the rock to the level of a rock concert.

Liza Lester (17:34): So, these vibrations that are induced arches, as helicopters are passing or hovering, this is outside of human hearing, as you mentioned, but if you were to speed it up to where we can hear it, what does it sound like?

Billy Joel's 1983 song "Goodnight Saigon" begins and ends withthe sound of helicopters. "Goodnight Saigon"'s chorus includes thefamous line, "And we will all go down, together..." Not sure ifit's the song you're thinking of, since it's earlier than the90's.

The song tackles the issue of police brutality and corruption in Jamaica. The lyrics describe how the police force, specifically the narcotics division, continually harasses and abuses the citizens under the guise of fighting crime. The use of helicopters in the search for Marijuana further amplifies the extent to which the government is willing to go to suppress its citizens. The song also addresses the issue of police quotas, where officers are required to make a certain number of arrests or face disciplinary action. The song highlights the everyday struggles of the average Jamaican citizen living in a society plagued by police brutality and corruption.

The use of a helicopter in the song was significant as it symbolized the lengths that the government was willing to go to suppress the people. The helicopter represented the surveillance state, where citizens were constantly monitored and scrutinized by the police. The helicopter also represented the power imbalance between the government and its citizens. The government had access to resources such as helicopters that the ordinary citizen did not, and this further amplified the feeling of oppression.

The song had a significant impact on the reggae genre. It moved reggae away from love songs and into more socially conscious music. The song inspired other artists to tackle more topical issues and paved the way for the emergence of conscious reggae. The song also became a staple in the dancehall scene, with DJs regularly playing the tune at parties and events. e24fc04721

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