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[3] [6] [7] "Police in Helicopter" was a condemnation of the Jamaican government's crackdown on marijuana plantations. [11] The cover to the album single pictured Holt growing locks and a beard, [12] an indication of the increasing importance of Rastafari in his life. [3]
Chopper One was directed by E.W. Swackhamer, featuring two flight police officers (a pilot and an observer) and their adventures in a police helicopter. The helicopter was a Bell 206 JetRanger. It starred Jim McMullan as Officer Don Burdick and Dirk Benedict as Officer Gil Foley.
The couple left the helicopter to steal a car, then managing to avoid the police for 45 days. Their luck ran out when they were arrested at the Bass Hill Caravan Park. Questioned about the song in 2023, Killick said "At first I didn’t like it, I’m not into rap and that stuff, but after a while it sort of grew on me.
The song was immediately prohibited from being played on RTÉ stations [1] or was severely restricted, [2] sources vary. Despite that, the song sold 12,000 single records in the first week of release, taking it to the number one position in the Irish Singles Chart on 22 November 1973, and held that position for four weeks, [1] until it was replaced by Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody.
"Helicopter" is an indie rock [2] [3] and garage rock [4] song, written by all band members prior to their debut studio album, Silent Alarm. Composed in B minor, it was written in common time and has a quick tempo of 171 beats per minute. [5] The main riff was adapted from "Set The House Ablaze", a song by The Jam featured on the 1980 album ...
The song is a satirical attack on the actions of two police officers and takes a first-person view from the authorities themselves. [1] It was inspired by an incident that occurred in Oakland in the late 1970s. [2] It also functions more generally as an attack on police corruption. [3] "Police Truck" was one of the Kennedys' early popular songs.
"Bad Boys" is a 1987 song by the Jamaican reggae band Inner Circle, which gained high popularity in the United States after its re-release in 1993, peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and number seven on the Top 40 Mainstream. [1] It is the opening theme to the American TV show Cops and the theme song of the Bad Boys franchise.
An accompanying music video for "Helicopter" was uploaded on CLC's official YouTube channel on September 2, 2020, at 6:00 pm KST. [18] It was later uploaded to the 1theK YouTube channel on September 4. The music video achieved 10 million views in YouTube in just 36 hours, making it their fastest music video to do it. [9]