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Brian Eno, having moved on from Roxy Music, memorialised his unhappiness with Bryan Ferry in Blank Frank on Here Come The Warm Jets.
Blank frank is the messenger of your doom and your destruction
Yes, he is the one who will set you up as nothing
And he is one who will look at you sideways
His particular skill is leaving bombs in people’s driveways.
Blank frank has a memory that’s as cold as an iceberg
The only time he speaks is in incomprehensible proverbs
Blank frank is the siren, he’s the air-raid, he’s the crater
He’s on the menu, on the table, he’s the knife and he’s the waiter
And, to compound the barb, he does an amusing Ferry impersonation on the next track, Dead Finks Don't Talk, when he sings:
But dead finks don't talk too well
They've got a shaky sense of diction
Which is far enough back in time, children, but yet further back was the infamous Lennon/McCartney spat, evidenced musically in Lennon's How Do You Sleep? from Imagine, in which he answers McCartney's Too Many People on the album Ram. McCartney's Dear Friend on the album Wild Life reputedly poured water on the fire.
Too Many People
That was your first mistake,
You took your lucky break and broke it in two.
Now what can be done for you?
You broke it in two.
Too many people preaching practices,
Don't let 'em tell you what you wanna be.
Too many people holding back,
This is crazy, and baby, it's not like me.
That was your last mistake,
I find my love awake and waiting to be.
Now what can be done for you?
She's waiting for me
then the superior craftsman retorts:
How Do You Sleep?
So sgt. pepper took you by surprise
You better see right through that mother’s eyes
Those freaks was right when they said you was dead
The one mistake you made was in your head
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
You live with straights who tell you you was king
Jump when your momma tell you anything
The only thing you done was yesterday
And since you’re gone you’re just another day
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night?
A pretty face may last a year or two
But pretty soon they’ll see what you can do
The sound you make is muzak to my ears
You must have learned something in all those years
Ah, how do you sleep?
Ah, how do you sleep at night? |
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