Popular Culture
Genesis in the song Dancing with the Moonlit Knight from their 1973 album Selling England by the Pound invented the “Knights of the Green Shield” to allow the pun "Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout". This was part of a comic theme related to supermarkets, and encapsulated in the album's title.
Jethro Tull another progressive rock band, also mentioned Green Shield stamps in the song "Broadford Bazaar", which was about a town on the Scottish Isle of Skye which band leader Ian Anderson lived near: ""We'll take pounds, francs and dollars from the well-heeled, And stamps from the Green Shield".
Nikki Sudden wrote a song called "Green Shield Stamps" for his last official album "The Truth Doesn't Matter" - It describes his childhood in Britain, and that his mum used to save the green shield stamps. There is also an acoustic solo-version from the Cake Shop, New York - 24 March 2006, recorded just 2 days before his unexpected passing.
Michael Flanders makes reference to them in the opening patter to the Flanders and Swann song Sounding Brass: ""We now turn to number two on your song sheets. Don't strain your eyes trying to read them, though, because I shall be telling you exactly what comes next; in any case, these rather fanciful titles that we print on the programmes bear no relation to what we're going to sing. It's a dead waste of a shilling, is what I say. You don't even get green stamps. Well worth collecting, those stamps, my goodness.""
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