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32,847. When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music. (Bush & Country & Western & Advice) George H W Bush
68,580. Mad Cowboy Disease. Rab C Nesbitt: Duel, BBC 1998
68,581. Moonlight & Prozac, I Have Seen God And He Likes What I Do, Stand By Your Manslaughter: Country & Western Scotland. Rab C Nesbitt: Community
68,582. He recorded some of the 1960s greatest songs. (Country & Western & Star) Glen Campbell: The Rhinestone Cowboy, BBC 2013
68,583. 1970s: stories of divorce, drink and drugs. (Country & Western & Star) ibid.
68,584. As a guitarist he was incomparable. (Country & Western & Star) ibid.
68,585. Glen was a regular in the US pop show Shindig. (Country & Western & Star) ibid.
68,586. In 1968 he outsold the Beatles in the USA. (Country & Western & Star) ibid.
68,587. Now he was America’s fastest rising star. (Country & Western & Star) ibid.
68,588. BBC 1975: The Glen Campbell Music Show. (Country & Western & Star) ibid.
98,530. ‘He was a good old country boy.’ Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, Glen’s father
135,758. Lola: What are you reading?
Mandy: The Guinness Book of Records. (Read & Work & Working Class & Job & Endurance & Competition & Ambition & Country & Western) Mandy II: Mandy Bloody Blower, at the nailbar, BBC 2020
135,759. These people are gods: they’ve done something with their lives … I’m not a record breaker. But I am a line-dancer though. I’m going to win the local line-dancing endurance competition. Practicing? I’ve done twenty-two hours straight through. I’ve got a secret … [inaudible] … nappies … (Work & Working Class & Job & Endurance & Competition & Ambition & Country & Western) ibid.
135,760. Mandy: I heard you’d gone to the Peak District to start a new life. I heard you’d got a hot-tub.
Susan Blower: I did. But it’s all gone to shit … It’s all gone. I want to make it up to you. (Work & Working Class & Job & Competition & Endurance & Ambition & Country & Western) ibid.
135,761. Lola: Step 1: Gaze into the eyes of the voodoo head; Step 2: Name you foe; Step 3: Tell the head what you want – and you must be specific.
Mandy: I want to be the last one standing at the local line-dancing endurance competition. (Work & Working Class & Job & Endurance & Ambition & Competition & Voodoo & Country & Western) ibid. Lola buys voodoo head over the internet
135,762. Announcer: The prize will go to the lady line-dancer standing. And remember, you must keep your thumbs in your belt-loops at all times. Otherwise you are DISQUALIFIED! OK, good luck everyone. Positions please. And here we go. (Work & Working Class & Job & Competition & Endurance & Ambition & Country & Western) ibid.
135,763. … [20 seconds into competition Mandy staggers] … Lola! Water! (Work & Working Class & Job & Competition & Endurance & Ambition & Country & Western) ibid.
135,764. Loo roll! Loo roll! (Work & Working Class & Job & Competition & Endurance & Ambition & Country & Western) ibid. Mandy & Susan remain
135,765. Announcer: Susan Blower wins the award. God rest her soul. (Work & Working Class & Job & Competition & Endurance & Ambition & Country & Western & Voodoo) ibid. Susan crushed by giant glitterball with voodoo-head mistakenly brought into competition hall and onlooking from table
140,255. Dean Reed lives in East Berlin because he likes it better over there. An entertainer who has become the Soviet version of a superstar: he sings, he acts, and he speaks with what seem to be genuine conviction the Soviet line. (Biography & Cold War & Country & Western & Hero & Socialism & Revolution & Assassinations: Reed & Drown & Rebellion) Red Elvis: The Cold War Cowboy ***** 60 Minutes, Sky Documentaries 2022
140,256. Six weeks after the 60 Minutes interview is broadcast he disappears. (Biography & Cold War & Country & Western & Hero & Socialism & Revolution & Assassinations: Reed & Drown & Rebellion) ibid. historian
140,257. From that point on there is no way back; he is an enemy of the government of the United States. (Biography & Cold War & Country & Western & Hero & Socialism & Revolution & Assassinations: Reed & Drown & Rebellion) ibid.
140,258. By the late 1960s Dean Read is a fully fledged political radical. (Biography & Cold War & Country & Western & Hero & Socialism & Revolution & Assassinations: Reed & Drown & Rebellion) ibid.
140,259. He is rebelling against the government [East German] he previously cooperated with. (Biography & Cold War & Country & Western & Hero & Socialism & Revolution & Assassinations: Reed & Drown & Rebellion) ibid.