Sunday, September 2, 2018

"The Quick and the Daft"

This morning I was looking at the texts in Cherubini's Solemn Mass in G major for the Coronation of Louis XVIII, and I remembered something I'd long ago realized about "The Quick and the Daft" (an instrumental bonus track on the re-issue of Out of the Blue).  The title seems to come from either the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed.  Cherubini's Mass includes the Nicene Creed, where one of the lines is: Jesus "shall come again with glory to judge the quick and the dead," but there's a similar line in the Apostles' Creed, which is older.  The title of the ELO song simply changes "dead" to "daft."