Genre: Rock, Reggae Style: Pop Rock, Reggae-Pop Year: 1978 Video Source: DVD, 480i Audio Source: CD (Best Of) "Dreadlock Holiday" is a reggae song by British group 10cc. Written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman, it was the lead single from the band's 1978 album, Bloody Tourists. The song was based on real events Eric Stewart and Moody Blues vocalist Justin Hayward experienced in Barbados; and Graham Gouldman experienced in Jamaica. Graham Gouldman commented: "Some of the experiences that are mentioned are true, and some of them are ... fairly true!" Stewart recalled seeing a white guy "trying to be cool and he looked so naff" walking into a group of Afro-Caribbeans and being reprimanded, which became the lyric "Don't you walk through my words, you got to show some respect." Another lyric came from a conversation Gouldman had with a Jamaican, who when asked if he liked cricket replied, "No, I love it!". "Dreadlock Holiday" became the group's international number 1 hit topping the charts in the UK, Belgium, New Zealand and The Netherlands. The single also reached number 2 in Ireland and Australia, became a top 10 hit in Norway and Switzerland, and top 20 in Germany and Sweden. In Austria the song became 10cc's single entry in the charts peaking at number 18. In North America, "Dreadlock Holiday" became a minor hit, peaking at number 45 in Canada's RPM charts and number 44 on the US Billboard Hot 100. When asked why he thought the song didn't do better in the US, Gouldman said that reportedly some radio stations would not play reggae of any kind. In the UK, the song was the band's third number 1 and at the same time final top 10 hit. Graham Gouldman sang lead on this track, giving 10cc the distinction of having three UK #1 hits all with different lead vocalists (Lol Creme sang lead on "Rubber Bullets" and Stewart on "I'm Not In Love"). The music video for the song was directed by Storm Thorgerson. The beach scene was filmed on the Dorset coast near Charmouth. Release Info The video track is upscaled from 480i to 1080p with Topaz Video Enhance AI. The PCM track is ripped from CD, edited and synced with Adobe Audition. The timed lyrics are synced and edited to match the music video. Enable the subtitles to see the lyrics. Spoiler: Media Info Code: General Unique ID : 243970080322106997846558738309889444878 (0xB78AEDA68E4BD47228A6031FFEF4CC0E) Complete name : 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday.mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 4 File size : 527 MiB Duration : 4 min 12 s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 17.5 Mb/s Encoded date : UTC 2023-05-12 13:41:03 Writing application : mkvmerge v76.0 ('Celebration') 64-bit Writing library : libebml v1.4.4 + libmatroska v1.7.1 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L4 Format settings : CABAC / 4 Ref Frames Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, Reference fra : 4 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 4 min 12 s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 16.0 Mb/s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Interlaced Original scan type : Progressive Scan type, store method : Interleaved fields Scan order : Bottom Field First Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.257 Stream size : 479 MiB (91%) Default : Yes Forced : No Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC Transfer characteristics : BT.601 Matrix coefficients : BT.601 Audio #1 ID : 2 Format : PCM Format settings : Little / Signed Codec ID : A_PCM/INT/LIT Duration : 4 min 12 s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 1 411.2 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz Frame rate : 25.001 FPS (1764 SPF) Bit depth : 16 bits Stream size : 42.5 MiB (8%) Title : Lossless Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Audio #2 ID : 3 ID in the original source medi : 189 (0xBD)128 (0x80) Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Commercial name : Dolby Digital Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 4 min 12 s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 192 kb/s Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel layout : L R Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF) Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 5.78 MiB (1%) Title : Original Language : English Service kind : Complete Main Default : No Forced : No Original source medium : DVD-Video Text ID : 4 Format : UTF-8 Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text Duration : 3 min 49 s Bit rate : 52 b/s Frame rate : 0.240 FPS Count of elements : 55 Stream size : 1.46 KiB (0%) Title : Lyrics Language : English Default : No Forced : No Hidden Content: You must reply before you can see the hidden data contained here. Hidden Content: You must reply before you can see the hidden data contained here.
