Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
The pills meant to turn water into gasoline were a bust, but they come in handy for Stan, Ollie, and Susan. Some of their problems just float away.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
The guard in the engine room accidentally causes the nightclub riverboat to set off at full speed and chaos ensues. Chester comes to give Susan some welcome news, while Stan and Ollie end up in the Mississippi River.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
In this clip, singer Laura Black performs a soulful rendition of an old song written by Country-music legend Johnny Cash.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
In this song from the Radio Africa album, Latin Quarter sing about the civil rights movement in the USA, which started in the 1950’s and fought for the economic and political equality of African Americans.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Steve Skaith sings about the bad news that’s always on the radio about Africa. When the album came out in 1985, South Africa was still governed by racist apartheid policies. In the interest of overcoming language and cultural barriers, Latin Quarter and Steve Skaith provided subtitles AND translations on their album covers!
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
Latin Quarter is a British band combining pop, reggae and folk rock, well known for their political and social protest songs. The most successful of these is “Radio Africa”, which has been reissued several times and has neared the top of the charts in many countries.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
From Latin Quarter’s first album Modern times: It is a long way from the bazaars in North Africa, in which leather goods and Berber carpets are sold, to the car factories in which each movement is measured in units of time and you don’t earn much. Maybe you came all the way to Toulouse, in order to lose?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Latin Quarter: The election of Ronald Reagan to President of the USA and subsequent swing to the political right horrified many people. “Bed-Time for Bonzo”: One of Reagan’s last movies in which his co-star, a chimpanzee named Bonzo, was the better actor.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
A journalist sits at his smeared desk, eats cheap beans from the can and writes the “Truth about John Lennon”. His client is a national tabloid daily paper. His source a young woman, who wants to cash in on a long forgotten affair. But she is unable to write her story alone and needs a ghostwriter, who’s now killing Lennon for the second time. A song by Latin Quarter.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Latin Quarter’s song “Phil Ochs” is about the death of a protest singer of the 1960’s and of that which died with him. Phil Ochs was a talented singer-songwriter of the 1960s who addressed all manner of anti-war, civil rights, labour, and social justice issues in America. He took his own life in 1976.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
British band Latin Quarter formed in 1983 and released six albums, the subject matter of their songs often expressing their strong political views. The title of this song "No rope as long as time" was a saying of black South Africans meaning no amount of oppression could halt their eventual freedom. The band reunited in 2011, twenty-one years after splitting up, and has since released two more albums.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Latin Quarter perform live at the Full House club in Hannover, Germany. The British band has a big fan base in Germany.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Latin Quarter is a British band formed in 1983. At this concert, filmed in Hannover, they play "Donovan's Doorway," an ode to the city of Liverpool.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Talk show host Seth Meyers delivers a comedic monologue based on the biggest stories from that week’s news on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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