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I saw something similar to this on a rail forum a while back, and thought it could apply to aeroplanes as well!

So, what songs do you know that feature something to do with aviation, or just remind you of flying.

A few I can remember include:

747-Strangers in the Night -Saxon,

Landing in London - 3 Doors Down,

Edinboro - The Audition

And there was a song when I was young that went 'We're going to Ibiza' that featured a pilot, anyone remembered it?

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now was once used as the backing for the outro-video of a Concorde talk I went to so will always remind me of Concorde...

Anyone got any of their own?

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I saw something similar to this on a rail forum a while back, and thought it could apply to aeroplanes as

And there was a song when I was young that went 'We're going to Ibiza' that featured a pilot, anyone remembered it?

Was it done by the vengaboys?

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Mut,

The Top Gun soundtrack album was excellent...

"Early Mornin' Rain" - Peter Paul & Mounds (A Favorite)

In the early morning rain

With a dollar in my hand

With an achin in my heart

And my pockets full of sand

Im a long way from home

And I miss my loved ones so

In the early morning rain

With no place to go

Out on runway number nine

Big 707 set to go

But Im stuck here in the grass

Where the pavement never grows

Now the liquor tasted good

And the women all were fast

Well there she goes my friend

Shes a rollin down at last

Hear the mighty engines roar

See the silver bird on high

Shes away and westward bound

Far above the clouds shell fly

Where the mornin rain dont fall

And the sun always shines

Shell be flyin oer my home

In about three hours time

This old airports got me down

Its no earthly good to me

cause Im stuck here on the ground

As cold and drunk as I can be

You cant jump a jet plane

Like you can a freight train

So Id best be on my way

In the early morning rain

Starwood in Aspen - John Denver

(starts with)

It's a long way from LA to Denver

It's a long time to hang in the sky

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Now, John, how did you know I just lurve The King? :biggrin:

Listen Up!

And, of course, there's BTO's Welcome Home, which starts:

I get up early in the mornin' - and rush to catch a plane......

And The Stones Flight Number 505, which starts:

I was happy here and now - had everything I need........

and ends with the line:

.....He put the 'plane down in the sea, the end of Flight Number 505,

The end of Flight Number 505!

That from 'Aftermath'.

More to come (Aaarrggghhhh!!! - Ed). Nothin' Personal.....

Cheers - Dai. :blush:

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As you say Learning to Fly, Gareth... there is a Learning To Fly by Pink Floyd...

and its most definitely the best version too...in fact, i'm off to listen to some PF right now i think!

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As you say Learning to Fly, Gareth... there is a Learning To Fly by Pink Floyd...

and its most definitely the best version too...in fact, i'm off to listen to some PF right now i think!

Good idea Simi!!

Something Corporate - I Woke Up In A Car, lyrics include 'Flights connect through Arizona'

Iron Maiden's new film is called Flight 666 and follows their progress on the world tour, with lead singer Bruce Dickinson flying the band around in his 757!

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Brown Eyed Handsome Man - another Chuck Berry song........

"Flying across the desert in a TWA, I saw a woman walking across the sand

She been a-walkin thirty miles en route to Bombay - to get a brown eyed handsome man."

Cheers - Dai. :biggrin:

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U2 - Angel of Harlem

Apart from the obvius in the bandname the lyrics starts out with

"It was a cold and wet december day

when we tuched the ground at JFK"

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Back in the USSR - The Beatles

"Oh, flew in from Miami Beach B.O.A.C.

Didn't get to bed last night

On the way the paper bag was on my knee

Man I had a dreadful flight

I'm back in the U.S.S.R."

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