
I was lucky enough to see and hear the fantastic Jeff Lynne with *his* E.L.O. in Philadelphia last month.
Seems to me that songs I don’t fall in love with *right away*, but rather grow on me over a year or two, become my favorites.
When the band played this in my wife’s home town of Philadelphia last month, SHOWDOWN was unexpectedly the song I enjoyed the most.
Respect to allJeff,
matherton
August 9, 2019
General CommentThe lyrics of the song extoll the virtues of being a professional musician, comparing the rock and roll lifestyle to the workaday world. Takin’ Care of Business was originally a tune by The Guess Who that never got released. It was originally titled “White Collar Worker”, and very similar to the Beatles tune “Paperback Writer”. At many Guess Who concerts, lead singer Burton Cummings would introduce the song as now being a Guess Who song.
Ironically, the song has been used as an advertising campaign for companies such as Office Depot, when the song is in fact, about being lazy.