Friday, October 09, 2015

Shouldn't this be on the "Pawn Sacrifice" soundtrack?

My nomination for the best chess-themed pop song ever...


Prefab Sprout's lyrics are considered opaque at best, so who really knows what the song is actually about. Nevertheless, here's the chess-related part:

When Bobby Fischer's plane (plane plane) touches the ground (plane plane)
he'll take those Russian boys and play them out of town
playing for blood as grandmasters should