The Making of Alan Parker's Film 'The Commitments' Page #2

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# Only fools rush in

# But I can't help

# Falling in love

# With you

- # Like the river flows...

- Elvis is not soul.

Elvis is God!

I never pictured God

with a fat gut in a corset

singing ''My Way'' at Caesar's Palace!

Don't upset your father.

- Who are your influences?

- Uh... Barry Manilow.

- Who are your influences?

- Joan Baez... Joni Mitchell...

Wings...

Bachman Turner Overdrive?

Spandau Ballet. Soft Cell.

Sinad O'Connor.

# It's a nice trip to a candy shop...

Hi, I've come about the audition.

Led Zeppelin.

Uh...

Billy and The Bollix.

U2?

# Well, the black folks are starvin'

# And the white trash is carpin'

# And the KKK's all over the TV

# Blood on the mirror,

and there was blood on your face!

# Look so good

# I've really done my best

# Powder, paint and lipstick

# The latest Paris dress

# Poppa, rumba, rumba,

hey, Poppa Joe, coconuts

# Poppa Joe, hey, Poppa Joe

# Yeah, hey... Poppa Joe

# Why didn't you tell me

you were bored!

# Why didn't you tell me

you were bored!

# And still I dream he'll come to me

# That we will live the years together

# But there are dreams that cannot be

# In the haze of a drunken hour

- # But heaven knows I'm miserable now

- Yeah, I know how yeh feel.

# Elvis was a Cajun

# He had a Cajun heart

# Had to move down to Memphis

- # Cos that's where he got his start

- F***in' blasphemy! Elvis wasn't a Cajun!

# All that time in Graceland

and in Vegas, where he got huge

What d'yeh play?

I used to play football at school.

I mean what instrument?

I don't.

So what are yeh doin' here?

Well, I saw everybody else linin' up,

so... I thought yeh were sellin' drugs.

Hey, lads. This is Dean Fay.

Howayeh? Outspan Foster.

Derek Scully.

His influences are Clarence Clemons

and the guy from Madness.

- That's a nice sax.

- I haven't had it long.

Me uncle gave it to me

when his lung collapsed.

- This the band, is it?

- Yeah.

Bet U2 are shittin' themselves.

- Still got blue suede shoes, Mr Rabbitte?

- F*** off, carrot-head!

# Who's sorry now?

# Who's sorry now?

Any chance for me, lads?

In your wildest dreams, Jimmy,

did yeh ever think you'd be this big?

To be honest, Terry, I did.

Even in the early days.

As big as The Rolling Stones?

Who the f*** are they, Terry?

- Who's in there with yeh?

- I'm being interviewed on television!

It's Colonel Jimmy Rabbitte now, wha'?

Interviewed on television!

He's interviewing himself!

- Yeah?

- Jimmy, there's another one.

Yeah?

- I saw the ad.

- Did yeh?

- Yeah. I'm a singer.

- Is that right? Let's hear yeh, then.

- Here?

- Yeah.

- Can I come inside?

- No.

- In the hall, even?

- No.

I can't sing. Not out here.

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