The greatest first line to a song ever?

[Tarpon]

Ms T submits:

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

It was a godawfull small affair for the girl with the mousey hair DB again

A struck match faded like a nervous laugh Del Amitri

 

[Buzzer]

Great minds and all that. I posted 2 of those 3 earler in the thread

 

[Surf's Up]

1, 2, 3, 4

Bruce Springsteen x 10

 

[Tarpon]

" She wears denim wherever she goes, says she gonna get some records by 'The Status Quo' "

That brought a nostalgic smile to my face & on went the album. Top notch.

In my role as a ground breaker, as a pallbearer,
In my past life, as a benefactor, my lost years as an actor.

 

[Motogull]

In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.

 

[BadFish]

All you punks and all you teds
National Front and Natti dreds
Mods, rockers, hippies and skinheads
Keep on fighting 'till you're dead

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

The distant echo -
Of faraway voices boarding faraway trains
To take them home to
The ones that they love and who love them forever
The glazed, dirty steps - repeat my own and reflect my thoughts
Cold and uninviting, partially naked
Except for toffee wrappers and this morning's papers
Mr. Jones got run down
Headlines of death and sorrow - they tell of tomorrow
Madmen on the rampage .........

 

[BN9 BHA]

The first line of ' I've been to Hastings , I've been to Brighton , I've been to Eastbourne too , So what !!! ...is definatly worth a mention as are the three words that proceed the first line. .... Especially surreal when the song is covered by a mega huge band from California, and not the original oiks from Tunbridge Wells.

Great gig down the Haunt the other week by the way .

What is the name of the band that covered it?
I saw the ANL at the Top Rank in Brighton around 1980 as a support band, but can not remember to which band.