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With The Eagles performing their last ever concerts in the UK this week (although we heard that before) it got me thinking about the best, most instantly recognisable opening bars to songs.
Hotel California has to be up there.
Teenage Kicks maybe?
Others?
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The openings to No More Heroes, Something Better Change, (Get a) Grip (On Yourself) and Hanging Around (with a unique combination of driving guitar, drum and synthesiser) take some beating.
When I took major exams in the early 80s. I played the intros on a Sony Walkman just before the exams to psyche me up.
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I was talking to a crofter the other day who was at this performance and he said that being surrounded by a couple of hundred thousand drunken Irishmen was quite an experience. Whether it was a good one or a bad one he would not commit to:
There are two versions of this song with different intros, the first appeared on their debut album, the second was the single version which also appeared on the 1979 US import version of their first album, which I bought in New York in the summer of 1979.
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