"Dreadlock Holiday" is a song by 10cc. It was written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman and was the lead single from the band's 1978 album, Bloody Tourists. Lead vocals were performed by Graham Gouldman.
The lyrics, about a white man lost in Jamaica, were based on a true story told by Moody Blues vocalist Justin Hayward about an experience he had had in Barbados;[1] it was a rare excursion into reggae for the act. It became the act's third and final number one single in the UK, and final top 10 hit, spending a single week at the top in September 1978. The single peaked at #44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA. The song was later covered by Boney M on their 1985 album, Eye Dance.
In popular culture
Some of the experiences that are mentioned are true, and some of them are ... fairly true!
—Graham Gouldman, The Songwriters Circle, BBC2, 1999. |
- The song is featured on the first episode, "Killeroo", of the first series of the British cult comedy The Mighty Boosh. Bob Fossil, head of the Zooniverse, dances to the first verse of the song while a confused Howard Moon looks on, before switching it off and concluding with, "And that's why I don't like cricket."
- A reworked version is the main theme for Sky Sports coverage of Cricket in the UK, with the lines "I don't like Cricket, I love it" rerecorded as "We don't like Cricket, We Love it" [2]
- The song is featured in the movie Snatch.
- The guitar parts of the song feature in 2 Many DJ's album As Heard On Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2, mixed in with the vocals of Independent Women, Pt. 1 by Destiny's Child.
- Many elements of this song are used in the song "Your Cover's Blown" by Belle & Sebastian
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