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1. Compromise version of 'Ding Dong' to be sung by Leonard Cohen
Fri Apr 12, 2013, 07:53 AM
Apr 2013
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/compromise-version-of-ding-dong-to-be-sung-by-leonard-cohen-2013041265495

A COMPROMISE has been reached to help Britain solve its Ding Dong the Witch is Dead problem. With the BBC under right-wing pressure to ban the song, the broadcaster suggested a version sung by Leonard Cohen, the Canadian music poet.

A spokesman said: “The composers of ‘Ding Dong’ intended it to be triumphalist and optimistic. A witch was dead. A wicked witch.

“But while Margaret Thatcher left a divisive legacy, there is no evidence the Wicked Witch of the East took what she felt were the necessary though difficult steps to liberalise the Oz economy."

He added: “In order to reflect the true nature of Britain’s relationship with Lady Thatcher, a Leonard Cohen version would reflect great joy while at the same time being utterly depressing.

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