“Hooky Street” by John Sullivan
In “Hooky Street”, the singer presents himself as someone along the lines of an illicit street hawker. He has all types of items for sale, ranging from big-name sportswear to “gold chains” to “pool games”. In fact he implies that he has access to just about anything a customer can be looking for. And overall he praises the type of black market activity he is engaged in. For instance, there are no taxes involved, and items can be purchased this way for significantly less money than in stores.
But that brings us to the title of this track. “Hooky Street” is not the name of an actual road where this guy is situated. Rather it is symbolic, as in the United Kingdom the colloquial definition of “hooky” alludes to the idea of being dishonest. Thus the overall implication is that whereas the narrator does indeed have a variety of items to sell at lower prices, there is always some type of catch involved. But being a theme song itself, “Hooky Street” is quite terse, and he doesn’t really elaborate on that part of the narrative. Rather the title alone is intended to point to the idea that this individual is not on the up-and-up.
“Hooky Street”, Theme Song for “Only Fools and Horses”
“Hooky Street” is the closing theme song for a longstanding British sitcom entitled “Only Fools and Horses”. And both the song and the sitcom were written by John Sullivan.
“Only Fools and Horses” aired its first episode during May of 1981. But “Hooky Street” was not added until a short time after.
Who is John Sullivan?
John Sullivan (1946-2011) was a British scriptwriter who specialized in creating sitcoms.
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