Living Next Door to Alice – Smokie ★★★★★★★★★

Living Next Door to Alice / Smokie 

Sally called
when she got the word she said I suppose you've heard 'but Alice
Well I rushed to the window and looked outside
But I could hard ly believe my eyes As a big limousine rode up into Alice's drive

 

Oh Idon't know why she's leaving or where she's gonna go
I guess she's got her reasons but I just don't wanna know
'Cause for twenty four years I've been living next door, to Alice

 

Twenty four years just waitin' for a chance
To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance
Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice
We grew up together two kids in the park
Carved out initials deep in the bark me an' Alice

 

Now she walks through the door with her head held high
Just for a moment I caught her eye As the big limousine
pulled slowly out of Alice's drive

 

Oh I
don't know why she's leaving or where she's gonna go
I guess she's got her reasons but I just don't wanna know
'Cause for twenty four years I've been living next door to Alice

 

Twenty four years just waitin' for a chance
To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance
Now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice
Then Sally called back and asked how I felt
And she said I know how to help get over Alice

 

She said Now Alice is gone but I'm still here
You know I've been waiting twenty four years
And the big limousine disappeared I don't know why she's leaving
or where she's gonna go I guess she's got her reasons but I
just don't wanna know 'Cause for twenty four years
I've been living next door to Alice

 

Twenty four years just waitin' for a chance
To tell her how I feel and maybe get a second glance
But I'll never get used to not living next door to Alice
No I'll never get used to not living next door to Alice

 

• 스모키(Smokie)
• 데뷔/결성 : 1966년
• 활동시기 : 1970, 1980년대

크리스 노만(Chris Norman)보컬, 테리 우틀리(Terry Uttley), 알란 실슨(Alan Silson), 피트 스펜서(Pete Spence

• 비틀즈로부터 막대한 은혜를 입은 영국 요크셔 태생의 4인조 소프트 팝록 밴드 스모키(Smokie)의 국내에서의 인기는 Fab 4(비틀즈의 별명)와 맞먹었다. 1970년대 중반부터   1980년대까지 ''Living next door to Alice'', ''Don''t play Rock''n Roll to me'', ''If you think you know how to love me'', ''Mexican girl'', ''What can I do?'', ''I''ll meet you at midnight'' 등으로 우리나라 라디오를 도배했으며 이들의 베스트 음반은 지금까지도 꾸준히 팔리는 스테디셀러 반열에 오른 지 오래다.
  
  이들의 역사는 지금으로부터 35년 전인 1966년으로 거슬러 올라간다. 보컬에 크리스 노만(Chris Norman), 기타는 테리 우틀리(Terry Uttley),   그리고 베이스 주자에 알란 실슨(Alan Silson)이 모여 출범시킨 ''엘리자베단스(Elizabethans)''란 그룹이 스모키의 모체였다. 곧 피트 스펜서(Pete Spencer)가 드러머로 가입하자 친절하게도 이름을 ''카인드네스(Kindness)''로 바꾸고 1960년대 말부터 1970년대 초반까지 다수의 싱글들을 발표했지만 음악 팬들의 이목을 집중시키는데 실패했다.
• 스모키는 감수성이 풍부했던 편안한 음악들로 우리나라에서 가장 인기 있던 밴드 중 하나였고 지금도 그러하다