GLC: The Carnage Continues...
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"GLC: The Carnage Continues" is an episode of the British television comedy series The Comic Strip Presents... broadcast on BBC Two in 1990. It parodied a Hollywood telling of the 1980s takeover of the Greater London Council by Ken Livingstone and the subsequent disbanding of that body by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, re-imagining the story as a Charles Bronson / Sylvester Stallone-style action movie. It is a thematic sequel to The Strike, which involved the creation of a Hollywood version of the 1984 miners' strike.
[edit] Cast
- Robbie Coltrane - Charles Bronson as Ken Livingstone.
- Dawn French - Cher as Joan Ruddock.
- Jennifer Saunders - Margaret Thatcher.
- Rik Mayall - The deposed Lord Mayor of London.
- Adrian Edmondson - Charles, Prince of Wales.
[edit] Plot
The story opens as a mock report from the opening of the new Charles Bronson movie GLC: The Carnage Continues, in which Bronson (played by Coltrane) discusses his new movie, in which he plays Ken Livingstone. From there, the movie itself begins.
[edit] Music
Kate Bush wrote and performed the instrumental score and theme song to the episode as parody of hollywood action movie themes (sample lyric from 'Ken': "Who's the man we all need? Ken! Who's a funky sex machine? Ken!"). The song appeared as an extra track on her 1990 single 'Love and Anger' along with 'The Confrontation' and 'One Last Look Around The House Before We Go...', short extracts from Bush's instrumental score to the episode. The soundtrack also features Bush's 1985 hit single Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God).
Livingstone has not used Bush's song in his political campaigns, yet.
