"Twist at the End"
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"Twist at the End" was a song that was performed at EMI Recording Studios on 11 February 1963.
It was performed by the Fifteenth Doctor, Ruby Sunday, the Beatles and Cilla Black as well as the studios' staff, in a time-bending, reality-shaking choreography celebrating their victory over the villainous deity Maestro. Murray Gold played the piano as part of the performance, and, on their way back to the TARDIS, the Doctor and Ruby even noticed that the painted stripes of the iconic Abbey Road street crossing lit up under their feet. Only Maestro's child Harbinger, brought back into existence, decided against joining the partying. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
Due to the Unravel, a slightly different "hit song" called "The Twist at the End" was written in 1967 by Aubrey Waites, David Agnew and one other. (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} [+]Loading...["Esquivalience (novel)","'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-00000006-QINU`\"'"])
Lyrics[[edit] | [edit source]]
There's always a twist,
There's always a twist,
There's always a twist at the end!
There's always a twist,
There's always a twist,
There's always a twist at the end!
My friend, depend,
Press send, let's bend,
'Cause there's always, hey!
There's always,
Yes, there's always a twist at the end!
Hey!
Hey, hey!
We got the bop and the rock and the lindy hop.
We got the jive, beehive and the Stayin' Alive.
We got the conga and the salsa and the mighty Big Bopper,
The waltz and the schmaltz and no penalties for faults!
There's always a twist,
There's always a twist,
There's always a twist at the end!
There's always a twist,
There's always a twist,
There's always a twist at the end!
Pretend, descend,
Land's End, make do and mend
'Cause there's always,
There's always,
Yes, there's always a twist at the end!
Wooo!
There's always a twist at the end,
(Ah-ah-ah)
There's always a twist at the end,
(Ah-ah-ah)
We ain't no fools from Liverpool,
'Cause there's always a twist at the end.
I always said that it ends with a twist,
That's one good thing that can't be missed.
Have a smashing little dance 'cause we know what's best,
'Cause we're the smart girls from the northwest!
(There's always, there's always, there's always a twist!)
[Instrumental]
Sing along if you've got a twist!
Sing along if you kiss the mist,
There's a special little dance,
You'll run the risk.
There's always, always,
Always a twist!
(There's always, there's always, there's always a twist!)
La-la la la la-la-la
La la-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la la la
La-la la la
There's always a twist at the end!
I said, there's always a twist at the end!
What you intend, I can't defend,
I think this song will never end,
'Cause there's always,
Always,
Always,
A twist at the end!
(TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This song is listed on the TARDIS jukebox as "Twist At The End by John Smith and the Common Men".[1]
- "John Smith" was established in An Unearthly Child itself as a pseudonym of Aubrey Waites, to whom the similarly-named 1960s hit song The Twist at the End had previously been attributed in the spin-off novella {{esquivalience}} [+]Loading...["Esquivalience (novel)","'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000000E-QINU`\"'"] by Jamie H. Cowan, which predated The Devil's Chord by several months. Although Cowan's Twist was dated to 1967 instead of 1963, and had different lyrics, its existence in this form was attributed in-story to the Unravel, a phenomenon which rewrote history on a massive scale; after The Devil's Chord aired, Cowan tweeted to highlight the connection, suggested his version was a "valid alternative timeline" relative to the TV Twist.[2]
- In a deleted scene from Empire of Death [+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"], the Doctor would have played this song on the jukebox while confronting Sutekh in the Time Vortex.
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