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Simon Templar

Simon Templar is a British fictional character known as The Saint. He featured in a long-running series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963. After that date, other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983; two additional works produced without Charteris's participation were published in 1997. The character has also been portrayed in motion pictures, radio dramas, comic strips, comic books and three television series.

Overview

Simon Templar is a Robin Hood-like criminal known as The Saint — plausibly from his initials; but the exact reason for his nickname is not known (although we're told that he was given it at the age of nineteen). Templar has aliases, often using the initials S.T. such as "Sebastian Tombs" or "Sugarman Treacle". Blessed with boyish humour, he makes humorous and off-putting remarks and leaves a "calling card" at his "crimes", a stick figure of a man with a halo. This is used as the logo of the books, the movies, and the 1960s TV series. He is described as "buccaneer in the suits of Savile Row, amused, cool, debonair, with hell-for-leather blue eyes and a saintly smile..."

The Saint (Edwin Astley song)

"The Saint" is a theme tune for The Saint composed first as a whistled melody by author Leslie Charteris himself, before being expanded by Edwin Astley 1962, and later Brian Dee, Irving Martin, and Orbital in television and film versions.

Versions

  • The Eliminators 1966
  • Laurel Aitken 1963
  • The Les Reed Brass 1962
  • Roland Shaw And His Orchestra 1966
  • Tommy McCook 1969
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    The Saint

    by: Cult

    Hail the guitar, all tuned down
    In a power circle, obey the crowd
    All ride a wave, crash right in
    Lovers and fighters, adrenaline
    The singer spits, our hearts all rise
    Energy is visible, we all crush tight
    All washed away, tsunami wave
    Fragile human, all the same
    And now, I face the sound
    When all around is burning
    I'm like Hermes, drifting down
    I am the saint, your path into the light
    I am the knife that cuts right through your life
    I have found the path immortalized
    I am the saint, the path into the light
    Caught in a trap, the systems are down
    Communication's broken, I feel underground
    Weight of the storm, in sound, we all drown
    You'll never understand what drives us all on
    And now, I face the sound
    And all around is burning
    I'm like Hermes, drifting down, down, down, down
    I am the saint, your path, the way, the light
    I am the knife that cuts right through your life
    I have found the path immortalized
    I am the saint, your path, the way, the light
    I am the saint, your path into the light
    I am the knife that cuts right through your life
    I have found the path immortalized
    I am the saint, your path, the way, the light




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