Today in 1934: the death of Bonnie and Clyde, chronicled in song by Serge Gainsbourg

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Several weeks before they was killed

… on accountin’s o’ they was grammar-challenged.

Edit: I see the post has been corrected to “were killed”.

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The first version I heard of “Bonnie & Clyde” was the Luna cover:

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What’s the idea behind trying the long front page posts lately? Hoping to get more screen time maybe?
I like to go from story to story quickly, but maybe that isn’t so helpful to Boing Boing??

I can’t say, as I’m just someone posting a link to a song I liked on the BBS. You’d need to ask an editor.

Ha! Sorry bout that.

My favorite is Vermillion Lies’ song about Bonnie and Clyde.

So… wait… so… Clyde’s actual friend wrote the song? But then the actor who played Clyde rewrote it and also recorded it? How can you achieve that level of meta with no internet? Telegraph? I think not.

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