In an interview upon the single's release, McGear said "we recorded it because we wanted to bring a spark of happiness into this hard, dull world of ours.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Scaffold reworked "Thank U Very Much" using the original backing track and released it as a single in aid of the frontline healthcare workers, with the money raised going to the NHS Charities Together. The members of the Scaffold were originally part of a performing revue group known as The Liverpool One Fat Lady All Electric Show. I am sure that generations of dockers were indeed moved to give grateful thanks to the Aintree Iron company. It used to have a ball room, and other building that was demolished before I was born, whether they have anything to do with the song I don't know, maybe it was a smart choice of words to make the song sound good.A 1968 broadcast of the radio series Round the Horne (Series 4, Episode 6) featured a version of the song with the words changed to those of movie stars. AS I actually wrote "Thank U very much for the Aintree Iron" for Scaffold, I trust that I'm the best judge as to the authenticity of your readers' answers. The "Iron" was an abbreviation of "Gridiron", given to two sets of sidings at the departure end of the yard, where trains were held before being despatched on their way. Thanks for adding to the confusion about the aintree iron and I completely understand the reason for you not knowing what the heck your song is about as I'm sure you're aware in that period there was a lot of substance use that clouded many a song lyric lol.

Thank U Very Much" is a song by Liverpudlian comedy trio the Scaffold, released as a single in November 1967. The Scaffold’s career outlasted that of McGear’s brother’s band, their name kept in the public eye with the Liver Birds 70s TV sitcom theme and their farewell single, a gloriously lugubrious version of Dominic Behan’s Liverpool Lou (an excellent compilation of most of The Scaffold’s work is currently available, though a new collection is in the works – hopefully this one will contain their timelocked rarity, Decimal Five, a song designed to help sell decimalisation to the masses).

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Our kid said, ‘Don’t do that…’”The Aintree Iron is a line that has had many explanations, many of them quite unsavoury and attached to famous people. Some mysteries are best left unsolved, and it is reassuring to find that the internet does not have the answer to everything. Few things are worse than Nerys Hughes staring dreamily into the middle distance and saying "we're all God's creatures on this earth" in a sing song voice.

But in my travels around the kingdom of rock’n’roll I have always being struck by the yawnsome loathing they draw from the serious rock fan. McGough's fellow Liverpool poet Adrian Henri was also a founding member of this early configuration.

He's mentioned in the song, but subliminaly rather than directly by name, because if he had found out they were singing about him, he'd have gone nuts and battered the lot of them. Tracks which were first released from 1973 onward show the artist as Scaffold (rather than The Scaffold). These were taken down to supply the munitions factories during World War Two, as were all the railings around the Aintree, Fazakerley, Walton, Bootle and other areas. Now, a million years later, I’m talking to the ex-Scaffold, ex-GRIMMS, ex-hairdresser McGear about the reissue of arguably his finest piece of work, 1974’s McGear. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab .

as the one about the local music venue/meeting place sounds the most plausible for the time and era, I'd go with that! So, dear reader, take a few minutes somewhere between 3 - 5 GMT to send the Hammers your positive forces.On my weblog recently I wrote a short piece about poet Roger McGough and mentioned in passing his membership of the Scaffold and some of their hits including the above-mentioned lyric.