Music's greatest opening lines

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Where do l send the flowers…

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Well, let’s be real.
It’s nigh on 70 years old and you still know it intimately.
I don’t expect everyone to know all the other opening lines nominated, but I do expect that.

So if we’re being serious…

It’s perhaps that, or…

Well since my baby left me

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That’s a genuinely funny statement :rofl:

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That was also how l viewed it…

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I prefer the John Cale version.

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There’s a lady who’s sure

Probably ranks up there, too.
I mean if we’re talking about greatest opening lines, not just ones we think are cool.

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But I’m sticking with Little Richard.
It pretty much is rock ‘n’ roll.
In about two and a half seconds.

Edit:

I mean, also…
Not to be a stickler, but…

The thread title is opening lines.
Not couplets or verses.

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I’ll preface this by saying I’m a huge Led Zeppelin fan and absolutely love Stairway To Heaven.

But…

You’re missing part of the line.

It’s actually “There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold”

Please be accurate when dealing with such greatness.

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Nope.
That’s the first line.

Edit: it’s also a great second line, but the first line draws you in anyway.

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wow…it’s so unlike you to argue…even when you’re wrong!!!

Read the lyrics on the album cover/CD Liner notes.

Or just google it.

And then you can apologise.

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Or I could just listen to it?

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Forget it…you just do you!

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I was reminded a couple of years ago that l actually used this song among others in English classes, over 40 years ago as an introduction to literature and verse.

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So…what’s the first line?

There was movement at the station?

Or,
There was movement at the station
For the word had passed around?

Edit: lol. Okay, the album liner notes have it as one line.
Fair enough.

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Seems pretty clear that the opening line should at least be the 1st sentence.

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Okay.
I consider the opening line to be that before the first break.
The opening line to Hotel California is
On a dark desert highway

It’s not…
On a dark desert highway cool wind in my hair

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Inner sleeve art from Led Zeppelin IV

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Yes, I conceded that.

Edit: I will point out the inconsistency with the very next couplet, though.

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Hotel California is the same:

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim, I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway, I heard the mission bell
And I was thinkin’ to myself, “This could be heaven or this could be hell”
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor, I thought I heard them say

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