{"id":25091,"date":"2015-11-12T22:40:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25091"},"modified":"2015-11-13T06:38:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T14:38:42","slug":"the-great-songs-a-girl-called-johnny-by-the-waterboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-11\/the-great-songs-a-girl-called-johnny-by-the-waterboys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Songs:  &#8220;A Girl Called Johnny&#8221; by the Waterboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s <strong>Waterboys<\/strong> are among the greatest rock bands to come out of the Isles. \u00a0You could point to a thousand confirming facets, but this is the one that&#8217;s struck us when we went down the rabbit hole:\u00a0<em><strong>A Girl Called Johnny<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>off of their eponymous album debut in\u00a01983 (before they would blow up with &#8217;84&#8217;s <em><strong>Pagan Place<\/strong><\/em> and &#8217;85&#8217;s<em><strong> This Is The Sea\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(now there&#8217;s a startlingly good three years and album trio). \u00a0<em><strong>A Girl Called Johnny<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0was a tribute, as is much of post-1974 music, to <strong>Patti Smith<\/strong>, and a seminal rocker of extraordinary strength. \u00a0This one&#8217;s got both <strong>Mike Scott<\/strong> and <strong>Karl Wallinger<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>World Party<\/strong>, on piano). \u00a0Simply slaughtering while strutting. \u00a0Just like Patti.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vL5L5Y61Jyk\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Waterboys are among the greatest rock bands to come out of the Isles. \u00a0You could point to a thousand confirming facets, but this is the one that&#8217;s struck us when we went down the rabbit hole:\u00a0A Girl Called Johnny,\u00a0off of their eponymous album debut in\u00a01983 (before they would blow up with &#8217;84&#8217;s Pagan Place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lefort\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-11\/the-great-songs-a-girl-called-johnny-by-the-waterboys\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 4.9.10\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Lefort Report |\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Great Songs: \u201cA Girl Called Johnny\u201d by the Waterboys | The Lefort Report\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-11\/the-great-songs-a-girl-called-johnny-by-the-waterboys\/\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-11-13T06:40:51+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-11-13T14:38:42+00:00\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Great Songs: \u201cA Girl Called Johnny\u201d by the Waterboys | The Lefort Report\" \/>\n\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"aioseo-schema\">\n\t\t\t{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thelefortreport.com\\\/blog\\\/2015-11\\\/the-great-songs-a-girl-called-johnny-by-the-waterboys\\\/#article\",\"name\":\"The Great Songs: \\u201cA Girl Called Johnny\\u201d by the Waterboys | The Lefort Report\",\"headline\":\"The Great Songs:  &#8220;A Girl Called Johnny&#8221; 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