Alphabet associations - I

[Anna]

Please sir, Hellish, sir

Oh well done Flay, you saved me from going to Hell in a Handcart!! And, the Middlesbrough composer is, of course Hereward Hilken Swain Kaye and Hell Can Be Heaven, a musical based on Dante’s Inferno.

[Nick Armstrong]

the Middlesbrough composer is, of course Hereward Hilken Swain Kaye

Of course...

[Anna]

Of course...

He was Rick Wakeman's vocalist at one point, after Rick overheard his name in a pub, came over and said: “You’re named after Hereward The Wake, right? I’m descended from him; hence my surname Wakeman…man of wake.

Also he was a Flying Pickett. I don't know this, Mr. Google told me, so it must be true!!

[Flay]

going to Hell in a Handcart!!

That's a strange expression, Bruce.

[Northender]

You prefer 'songwriter' to 'composer' in the case of the chaps from Middlesbrough and Baltimore.
The reference to the G&S song was intended to lead you, via 'infernal' to 'The Road To Hell' )

[Flay]

via 'infernal' to 'The Road To Hell'

Well that sums up AA doesn't it?

I was looking at Chris Rea when you first posted the clue but couldn't see that, although it was looking me in the face. His sort of music tempts one to suicide.

[Northender]

Chris Rea, born in Middlesbrough, wrote and performed 'The Road To Hell'. (I've just had to chide somebody else on another thread for being rude about The Eagles...honestly, some people! )
You're also looking for a video release and the penultimate scene of an opera where somebody gets his comeuppance. Then it's a case of Pythonesque parrots, so to speak (the blues are Norwegian).

[Flay]

I was just about to reply to Anna when her message disappeared <poof>

It was Python, Anna - the Bruces!

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable.
Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.

David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schegel.

There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stewart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato they say could stick it away,
Half a crate of whisky every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart.
"I drink, therefore I am."

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

[Northender]

Lady in Red - Chris de Burgh?

[Flay]

Lady in Red - Chris de Burgh?

Yes, another of Anna's posts just went <poof>

You should leave your faux pas for us, Anna, so we can arrogantly correct them.

[Anna]

I was just about to reply to Anna when her message disappeared <poof>

I got confused, Chris Rea, extinct parrots, etc. And still composers to find from Baltimore and Salzburg. Oh, it's just too complexicated for me, Laura. Thank goodness for Beethoven and Barenboim on BBC4 tonight and normality.

You should leave your faux pas for us, Anna, so we can arrogantly correct them.

In your dreams, in your dreams.

[Northender]

Go on ... think of a REALLY famous Salzburg-born composer who consigned one of his characters to you-know-where...

[Flay]

Don Giovanni being dragged down to Hell?

[Northender]

Two down, two to go. The video was indeed a Video From Hell.

[Flay]

And Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell