YouTube Raid - James Morrison
Showbiz is a funny old game. One minute you're busking outside M&S in Truro, Cornwall, the next you're on Top of the Pops. And then they cancel Top of the Pops, but you're still OK, cos you can sing rather well...
Actually, can someone check if M&S is still there please?
I don't get it :S
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"Dear Cliff,
The only reason why your double-'a'-sided single only entered at #2 was because we are competly p***ed off with your Yuletide dirge almost every other year.
Sadly for you I was one of those folks who went out and helped get you a #1 hit in the summer of 1960 with "Please Don't Tease" {and casting my "old and infirm" memory back just a little; 47 years, Cliff-o, the flip side was another piece of dirge called "Where Is My Heart?"}.
Sadly for you I shall be 60 this year and I'm still very mobile. I don't need to act the prat and go down to Wimbledon, swinging a tennis racket in the air as if I was Brian May, singing such bland tripe like "Congratulations" {1968} to appreciate my kind of music, Cliff.
My large catalogue contains a wide taste of acts, from Roy Orbison to Janet Jax; from Shakira to Dolly Parton; from Rihanna to AC/DC; from Neil Diamond to the Pussycat Dolls; from Bob Marley to Ludvig van Beethoven.
I even have CDs by a group called the Shadows, who backed you on almost all of your earlier hits such as "On The Beach"; "I'm The Lonely One";
"Nine Times Out Of Ten"; "Travellin' Light"; "The Young Ones"; "I Could Easily Fall", etc. Without the Shadows you most certainly would have had a struggle to get where you are today.
While I admit to liking "Mistletoe And Wine", the offering two years later {"Saviour's Day", 1990} was utter bilge. How happy I was when, after a mere one week, the mighty Iron Maiden arrived to knock your Yuletide slush off of the top with a much more lively slice of rock for the New Year!
At 66, Cliff-o, me ol' boy, you're well passed the sell-by date for making any decent records ever again. Why, for the re-recording of "Move It!" I notice you had to employ the charitable services of Shadows drummer Brian Bennett and guitarist Brian May from Queen.
Aaaahh, I bet it almost felt like being right back in 1958 again, Cliff, ay?
We're not all as "infirm" and bedridden, as you obviously think, when it comes to buying those Xmas songs by a certain Cliff Richard every year at all. It's because, although polished and also extremely good songs, in the case of "Mistletoe And Wine", your records are now absolute tripe.
The only place fir for your voice these days is in the shower room, Cliff, old chap!
God bless.
Russtti Gaynor
Finchley, London, England
[And THAT, boys and girls, is what I call a lifelong pop fan. Hats off to you, sir! - Fraser]
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