You all know what song is associated with the opening lines ‘well, it’s a one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go, cat, go!’, well there’s another opening line that deserves to be remembered just as much if only for its originality: ‘I don’t smoke dope, I don’t drink bourbon / all I wanna do is shake my turban!’ Those words, the opening lines of ‘rockin’ with a Sikh’ were those of a Sikh rock’n’roller Peter Singh, originally from the Punjab, who ran a market stall in Swansea.
The Sikhs are of course a religious people from India who are famous, among other things, for never cutting their hair or removing their turbans.
Here’s a crisp advert from 1988-89 inspired by him :
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