| Living Next Door to Alice Who the fuck is Alice? ~ Roy Chubby Brown ~ Who the fuck are you? ~ A modern youth on Roy Chubby Brown Living Next Door to Alice is a song originally performed by New Word, made popular by Smokie, and perfected by Roy Chubby Brown. It was released on a pair of 12" vinyl trousers, along with the b-side; Living Across the Street from the Post Office Written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman in 1959, then forgotton again until 1975 when it came back to them via a collective dream. They first came up with the idea when their manager locked them in a room and refused to let them out until they'd written a top-selling album. For a while it was known by the working title Living Next Door to Mrs. Craven and Her Many Cats, before they decided to change the focus of the song to Chinn's other neighbour on the opposite side, which happened to be Alice. The original lyrics also stated that the singer had been living next door to Alice for TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS However, this was changed when a friend of the band pointed out that this was an absurd amount of time. ==MEANING== In the 1960s, 'living next door to Alice' was common slang for being incarcerated. This arose from the fact that prison walls of the era were built from a cheap metal called alicanium, dubbed 'Alice' by the inmates. The songwriters insist they weren't aware of this, and it was just about a real neighbour that Nicky Chinn had ** THE REAL ALICE** When speaking about his old old neighbour ... |
