Next Thursday you're invited to watch Rising Tide's live coverage
of a gala tribute in salute to Ronald Reagan.
Host Haley Barbour joins special guest lady Margaret
Thatcher in celebrating the former president's 83 birthday.
Ticket's are 1000 Dollars a plate but you can see the event free on GOP TV.

Images of perfection, suntan and napalm
Grenada - Haiti - Poland - Nicaragua
Who shall we choose for our morality
I'm thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy

Big mac: smack: phoenix r: please smile y'all
Cuba, Mexico can't cauterize our discipline
Your idols speak so much of the abyss
Yet your morals only run as deep as the surface

Cool - groovy - morning - fine
(If white)
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine
(America)
I love a free country
(told the truth)
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
(for one day)

Conservative say: there ain't no black in the union jack
Democrat say: there ain't enough white in the stars and stripes

Compton - Harlem - a pimp fucked a priest
The white man has just found a new moral saviour
Vital stats - how white was their skin
Unimportant - just another inner-city drive-by thing

Morning - fine - serve your first coffee of the day
Real privilege, it will take your problems all away
Number one - the best - no excuse from me
I am here to serve the moral majority

Cool - groovy - morning - fine
(If white)
Tipper Gore was a friend of mine
(America)
I love a free country
(told the truth)
The stars and stripes and an apple for mommy
(for one day)

Zapruder the first to masturbate
The world's first taste of crucified grace
And we say: there's not enough black in the union jack
And we say: there's too much white in the stars and stripes

Fuck the Brady bill
Fuck the Brady bill
If God made man they say
Sam Colt made him equal

1 The Queen is Dead: The Smiths
2 London Calling: The Clash
3 Closer: Joy Division
4 Loveless: My Bloody Valentine
5 Suede: Suede
6 Definitely Maybe: Oasis
7 Screamadelica: Primal Scream
8 Nevermind: Nirvana
9 Different Class: Pulp
10 The Holy Bible: Manic Street Preachers
11 The Libertines: The Libertines
12 Psychocandy: The Jesus and Mary Chain
13 The Smiths: The Smiths
14 Pink Moon: Nick Drake
15 Disintegration: The Cure
16 The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
17 Forever Changes: Love
18 It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back: Public Enemy
19 Marquee Moon: Television
20 Doolittle: Pixies
21 Ok Computer: Radiohead
22 Grace: Jeff Buckley
23 Transformer: Lou Reed
24 Up The Bracket: The Libertines
25 New York Dolls: New York Dolls
26 Journal For Plague Lovers: Manic Street Preachers
27 The Ramones: The Ramones
28 Unknown Pleasures: Joy Division
29 George Best: The Wedding Present
30 Pink Flag: Wire
31 Entertainment: Gang of Four
32 (Whats The Story) Morning Glory: Oasis
33 Nevermind The Bollocks :Sex Pistols
34 Zen Arcade: Husker Du
35 Murmur: R.E.M
36 Five Leaves Left: Nick Drake
37 Dry: PJ Harvey
38 Is This It: The Strokes
39 Blue: Joni Mitchell
40 The Clash : The Clash
41 You Are The Quarry: Morrissey
42 All Mod Cons: The Jam
43 The Velvet Underground & Nico : The Velvet Underground
44 Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness: The Smashing Pumpkins
45 Horses: Patti Smith
46 Parallel Lines: Blondie
47 Cut: The Slits
48 Dog Man Star: Suede
49 The Joshua Tree: U2
50 Remain in Light: Talking Heads

1. Were you bullied at school?
I was never bullied at any point, I must admit. I was never picked on, never pushed around and that's that. It's not very interesting is it?
2. When did you start wearing glasses?
Seriously when I was 13. I needed to wear them much sooner but glasses had this awful thing attached to them that if you wore them you were a horrible green monster and you'd be shot in the middle of the street. So I was forced to wear them at 13 and I've stuck with them ever since.

3. What did your parents do for a living?
Very spectacular jobs. One was a librarian and one worked in a hospital. Who did what? Elizabeth, my mother, is the librarian. Peter, my father, works in the hospital. Yes we still keep in touch, every day.

4. Were you good at sport?
Miraculous. It was the only thing I was good at and I used to love it completely. The 100 metres was my raison d'être. Yes, I won everything. I was a terrible bore when it came to athletics. I was just the type of person everyone despises so I've carried on in that tradition.

5. When did you leave home?
I left spasmodically and I returned home spasmodically for years. I was never very good at it. I think the first time was when I was 17 and the last when I was 23. I just went to the usual foul, decrepit bedsits that simply crush your imagination.

6. Were you ever a punk?
Not in the traditional sense. I did like lots of it. I did see most of the important groups and I was incredibly aware at the time... but a punk as far as style goes I never was.

7. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Oh, I'm afraid I always wanted to be a librarian. To me that seemed like the perfect life: solitude; absolute silence; tall, dark libraries. But then they started to become very modern, you know, these little pre-fabs and they had no romance whatsoever. So suddenly the idea had no fascination for me. I also wanted to be what I am now, all the time, but I think when you want to sing and you want to enter popular music, you're convinced by everybody that it's an absurd notion, that it's childish, and it's a whim and it's diseased - which of course it is - and you're always badgered out of it. So I thought well, perhaps it is these things, but I'm going to try it anyway.

8. What's the worst illness you've ever had?
Probably being on the dole. I always consider that to be an absolute illness. A physical illness? I've not really had anything.

9. Do you drink or smoke?
I have spasms of wine but I don't smoke. But I'm afraid, yes, red wine occasionally.

10. Are you gay?
I feel that I am quite vulnerable and that's quite good enough because I wouldn't want to be thought of as Tarzan or Jane or whatever! I'd rather be thought of as someone quite sensitive who could understand women in a way that wasn't really sexual. I hate men who can only see women in a sexual way - to me that's criminal and I want to change that. I don't recognise such terms as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual and I think it's important that there's someone in pop music who's like that. These words do great damage, they confuse people and they make people feel unhappy so I want to do away with them.

11. Favourite shop?
Rymans, the stationers. To me it's like a sweet shop. I go in there for hours, smelling the envelopes. As I grew up I used to love stationery and pens and booklets and binders. I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper. So for me, going into Rymans is the most extreme sexual experience one could ever have.

12. Favourite joke?
The funniest thing - I mean I'll say this now but it won't seem the least bit funny, it'll seem completely damp - was when this famous social gadfly came up to Oscar Wilde at this celebrated event in Paris and said, "Isn't it true, Oscar, that I'm the ugliest woman in the whole of Paris?" and he said "No, my dear, you're the ugliest woman in the whole of the world" which I thought was quite funny.

13. Who doe