Sticking with the musical theme this morning I have a plea, a warning to all of you record buyers out there - Cliff is back in town.And this time he's got Brian and Tony with him...
And they want a christmas chart topping, pick of the hits, number one.
Please, please do not encourage them, not even with one single single purchase, please, it will only get worse if you do.
They were featured on GMTV this morning singing a truly awful reworking of Cliffy's first hit from 1872, "Move It", Cliff and Brian May and Tony Meehan (The Shadows drummer), three old gits who really should know better than to have yet one more go at the "hit parade".
Your time has passed gentlemen, it passed you by several decades ago and you didn't notice, your friends should really have told you not to go on making fools of yourselves but then that asumes that you have friends, or that your friends aren't cruel enough to let you press on and have everyone laugh at you - you are not what 12 year old girls buy into when they sit around in coffee bars called "Le Cafe Bongo" or "Cafe a-go-go" talking of the latest heartthrob to hit the hit parade - its gone gentlemen, its all gone, and so should you.
Cliff danced this morning on GMTV, he danced to Brian May's bog-standard guitar break, (circa "Radio Ga-Ga" days), he danced and looked like your drunk grandad dancing at a wedding and we all cringed and curled up in embarassment and hoped that the video tape would break soon, now.
And then they interviewed Brian May and he spoke of his thrill at working with Cliff, and how he had always wanted to work with Cliff, and how he and Cliff had reinvented the song that Cliff had last recorded with Mr Edison back in 1883, and the bit where he explained that he was only doing this because his agent had been on a bit of a losing streak recently and he needed a favour doing quickly before the boys in suits came to see him, was mysteriously cut from the interview.
I have watched them, and I did it so that you would not have to, heed my words, watching this will spoil your appetite, avoid at all costs.
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Any last shreds of credibility that Mr. May might have had are now ripped away. I mean - Cliff Richard? There's nothing wrong with been an old geezer in the music biz as long as you're doing something with some integrity and art to it - Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Springsteen etc. But CR has been a total, unmitigated irrelevance for about 50 years now.
I'm thinking Brian May never had any real musical taste. He was just very lucky to meet up with Fred.
I expect to see Mr May duetting with Daniel O'Donnell in the New Year.
Mr May lost all credibility when Anita Dobson (no relation, honest) and he morphed into the same whitey afro.
Circa 1978, I believe.
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