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In the week REM secured pounds 53 million for a five-album deal - the biggest advance in pop history ...
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If all the trendy students
Paid a tenner from their grants
And all the politicians
Sold their grannies and their aunts
And Princess Di was rented
At a thousand quid a dance
It wouldn't be a fraction
Of the REM advance
To build a business empire
From guitars and faded jeans
To spend a million dollars
Just recording tambourines
Even if they nationalised
The country's ganja plants
They wouldn't make the wonga
In a REM advance
Think about it seriously
And wonder how it's done
A Rock Endowment Mortgage
Til you're almost fifty-one
Without some cryptic lyrics
And a democratic stance
It's only Alan Shearer
Picks up that kind of advance
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