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OBSCURE SIXTIES GARAGE ROCK TRACK REFERENCED IN TABLOID NEWS HEADLINE SHOCKER!
A front page article in the Guardian today, concerning lingering resentment on Merseyside over The Sun’s coverage of the Hillsborough tragedy, hardly told us much we didn’t already know. Briefly, sensational tabloid news reports aren’t always true and, despite their protestations to the contrary, Liverpudlians really do have a tendency to wallow in victimhood. (Comparing a slanderous twenty year old newspaper article to the holocaust? Really?)
What did grab my attention though was The Sun’s Hillsborough tribute headline this week. As any garage rock aficionado will tell you, ’96 Tears’ was the title of a 1966 hit single by ? & the Mysterians. (In 2006, it was voted no. 120 on Pitchfork’s 200 Greatest Songs of the Sixties list.) A random Scouser contacted by Tripping Along the Ledge for comment fumed “This is a slap in the face to the people of Liverpool… It’s no different to what Pol Pot did to the Cambodians… etc. etc. etc.”
April 19th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Wallowing in victimhood – that’s rich coming from the irish
April 19th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Whos comparing it to holocast? Complete nonsense!!!
April 20th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Alright, alright. Chalm down, chalm down…
April 20th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
@ LFC – spokesperson for Hillsborogh families rationalises not accepting The Sun’s apology: “Do you forgive Hitler for what he’s done? Does anybody forgive Pol Pot? We are not God.” It seems reasonable to extrapolate that it was Hitler’s responsibility for the holocaust, rather than, say, his growing of a mustache, that she was referring to.