This has turned into something very philosophical and existential... a vicious circle.. DOTL would not have existed without either of them.. at that moment in time... like everything else in the history of the universe....
Carry on...
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Sebastian..... get a life, and show respect to Mr Sheffield. R.I.P.
By the way Mooghead, well said :-)
andyb1968 wrote:
Sebastian..... get a life, and show respect to Mr Sheffield. R.I.P.
"get a life" is hardly respectful either...
I refer you to mooghead, then let it go.
Let it go.....leeetttttt iiiitttt goooooooooo.... erm...... >____>
'Can't hold it back any more, let it go, let it go, turn away and slam that door.'
Sebastian wrote:
andyb1968 wrote:
He incidentally gave us one of my favourite songs DOTL
I'll have a(nother) Captain Obvious moment but: no, he didn't; Freddie did. Norman was, allegedly, the person about whom the song was written, but he wasn't the one who wrote the song, therefore he was not the one who 'gave [you]' DOTL, same way Marilyn Monroe didn't write 'Candle in the Wind', Freddie Mercury didn't write 'No-One But You' and John Lennon didn't write 'Life Is Real.'
Geez Seb, sometimes you're so stubborn it comes across as if you're simply dumb. No, the song would not have existed if it hadn't been for the author. But, considering that the song was written out of annoyance with a certain person, the song would not have existed either if the annoyance at said person hadn't existed. Therefore, it is perfectly reasonable to state that without Normal Sheffield we wouldn't have had DOTL.
thomasquinn 32989 wrote:
Therefore, it is perfectly reasonable to state that without Normal Sheffield we wouldn't have had DOTL.
Yeah, but by the same reasoning, without Freddie's parents there would've been no DOTL, and without Freddie's grandparents, and without Norman's grandparents, etc. So it's quite an irrelevant point to make really.
If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it does anybody give a fuck?
RIP N.S
RIP N.S
thomasquinn 32989 wrote:
Geez Seb, sometimes you're so stubborn it comes across as if you're simply dumb.
LOL.
Agreed !
andyb1968 wrote:
He incidentally gave us one of my favourite songs DOTL, Fred will have a few choice words for him when he gets up there ! R.I.P.
I think if the words "gave us" are changed to "inspired or spurred Freddie to write", the point would be clearer.
WTF ?!!!!
tcc wrote:
I think if the words "gave us" are changed to "inspired or spurred Freddie to write", the point would be clearer.
Exactly.