We’ve been getting a plethora of classic songs re-recorded with a political twist recently, from the surviving Beatles’ ‘Strawberry Milkshake Forever’ to Simon & Garfunkel’s new ‘Scarborough Brexit Fair’.
Now rock stalwarts Foreigner are getting in on the act with a new recording of their biggest success.
‘I Want To Know What Leave Is’ will feature newly revised lyrics asking what Brexit is all about.
Foreigner’s chief songwriter and founder member Mick Jones explains:
“We’ve been getting all sorts of ridiculous claims about an upshot of Brexit over the last three years but no clear definition. I was with the band watching a news item on it and I suddenly said, ‘all these bogus claims, come on, I want to know what leave is’ – and they all turned and looked at me, and I realised what I’d just said, and I just went, ‘we’ve got to do this’ – so we have done.”
Nigel Farage gave a response to this – nobody asked him to, but he felt it necessary to burst into our offices and say it anyway.
“It’s outrageous,” he said. “A band called Foreigner have no place to attack us Brits.”
The fact that Mr Jones is in fact English and the band name refers to his status living in America back in the 1970s went completely over his head.
Foreigner are now calling on you though to provide your own vocal take on the chorus:
I want to know what leave is
I want you to show me
Just record yourself singing those lines as tunefully as you can and they’ll edit it into the finished single.
They want to get as many members of the public asking what leave is as they can.
The single will be released on June 23rd, backed by another re-recording of a classic hit, the call for an end to dithering hesitation that is ‘Say You Will, Say You Won’t (Make Up Your Mind Tonight)’.