Congratulations, first winner of 2019!
Clue #1: Clark's
Kids < in the soundtrack of Larry Clark's
Kids (1995), there is a song by the band Slint, called "Good morning, captain", which was also inspired by Coleridge's poem.
Clue #2: 63 years and seven months < the length of Queen Victoria's reign (the sovereign is mentioned in the introduction of
LAD's version)
Clue #3: Charles's struggles to walk because of its proportions < the French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote "L'Albatros", whose last two lines read "Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, ses ailes de géants l'empêchent de marcher" ("
Exiled on earth amongst the shouting people,
His giant's wings hinder him from walking.")
Clue #4: "Relax, don't do it" < the Frankie Goes to Hollywood refrain is mixed to ROTAM in this famous mash-up:
Clue #5:
< these are "wedding guests".
Clue #6: a rather good plan B (in 1986) <"ROTAM" replaced "Alexander the Great" (that the band was unable or unwilling to play) in the Somewhere On Tour setlist.