Danger Man

Album: ...As Midnight Approaches (1988)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song samples the actor Patrick McGoohan from The Prisoner. This offbeat TV series ran on British commercial television between 1967 and 1968, and spawned a number of phrases which entered popular culture, in particular: "You are Number Six"; "We want information" and "I am not a number, I am a free man!" McGoohan also provides the nexus to the song's title; he had previously played the lead role of John Drake in another TV series, Danger Man (which was known in the United States rather unalluringly as Secret Agent Man). >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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