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Jetso
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26 Dec 2023, 6:07 pm

Disco inferno!

Burn baby burn!



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26 Dec 2023, 6:43 pm



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26 Dec 2023, 10:45 pm

"Burn baby burn" was the chant of angry rioters in the Black ghettos of America during the notorious urban riots of the Sixties only a few years before the song came out..

Then in the same mid seventies era of the song there was a fad in Hollywood of 'disaster movies'. One of these disaster movies was "towering inferno" about a sky scraper on fire. Kinda like the real 9-11 (now that I think about it).

So those are the references being made in the lyrics..."a hundred stories tall", and "burn baby burn".

Hard to believe that a song in my lifetime now has to be dissected like a line of Shakespeare.