Toyah and Robert Fripp added another episode to my main source of serotonin, their weekly Sunday lunchtime cover sessions. This time they covered the 1983 ZZ Top classic "Sharp Dressed Man".
It's simmering and sexy, a signature in the Fripp and Toyah fold. It becomes particularly risky when Toyah shows off her great natural talents to her prog rock man. I feel like I'm losing brain cells as I write this, I'm sure you will lose brain cells when you read it.
On this cover, the couple's enigmatic guitarist Sidney Jake broke his silence for the first time: "Is that how your parents behave?" asks the musician.
Watch Toyah and Robert Fripp cover “Sharp Dressed Man” from ZZ Top
During the UK lockdown, Toyah and Fripp shared a number of covers of rock classics by Judas Priest, Nirvana, Metallica, Jimi Hendrix, Guns N’Roses, Foo Fighters and others.
"Here I am in this house with this 74-year-old husband I really don't want to live without," Toyah told The Guardian of the Sunday Lunch series. "He withdrew, so I thought, 'I'm going to teach him to dance.' And it became a challenge."
"The response has been so overwhelmingly positive, and now, six months later, he can see that this was a pretty important thing as it became a shared experience with an audience that needed to be reminded of the beauty of human laughter."
Each part of the Sunday Lunch series was more upset than the last. Last week the cover went back to the Black Sabbath classic "Paranoid" for the second time. The couple bit their teeth at the Sabbath hit on Halloween last year. In an interview with "Heavy Consequence" the Sabbath guitarist pondered: "I think this ban drove you crazy."
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