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And so from next week we start a new chapter in the club’s history with Monday meetings to be standard from now on.
This got me thinking about Monday songs. And a very depressing lot they are too.
There’s Monday, Monday from the Mamas and Papas, a Lou Adler created vocal harmony group who had great success in the late 1960s with that song (and others).
Consider this lyric. Every other day of the week is fine, yeah / But whenever Monday comes you can find me cryin’ all of the time.”
Then there’s I don’t like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats.
According to lead singer Bob Geldof, he wrote the song after reading about a shooting spree by 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer.
She’d fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, US on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer.
The distinctive cry of “tell me why” which punctuates the song, follow a question from a reporter. Her response: "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day". She showed no remorse and is still in prison.
And who can forget the Bangles hit, Manic Monday, with its lovely sanguine expression, Just another manic Monday.
Actually, it was written by Prince about the absolute worst aspect of the day: oversleeping and scrambling to make it to work. I trust we will have no members doing that.
Fleetwood Mac have Monday Morning, with this from Lindsay Buckingham, Monday morning, you sure look fine. Goodo. A positive line for a change.
Duran Duran have New Moon on Monday”, and I have never quite got what was meant by the line, Shake up the picture, the lizard mixture.
Further back Fats Domino had Blue Monday, and for New Wave fans there’s New Order’s Blue Monday. Kick yourself into gear with a pulsating drumbeat.
And what blues fan can forget the Allman Brothers’s revival of the 1947 T Bone Walker classic Stormy Monday Blues, which begins They call it Stormy Monday but Tuesday's just as bad. Wednesday's worse, Lord and Thursday's all so sad.
Our job – individually and collectively – will be to make Mondays not the goodest, but the bestest, most fun filled, positively interesting meetings we can, so that everyone will want to come and enjoy a great start to the week.
John Bishop
President
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