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Elvis is the King, Nat King Cole had a wonderful voice, my mother in law bought all of Ken Dodds Records, I can remember Cheryl Cole or whatever her name is describing a Roy Orbison song as 'cheesy', stupid tart
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Random Best singer thread-who was the best on 19:26 - Oct 28 with 599 views
Random Best singer thread-who was the best on 17:23 - Oct 28 by carruthers
Elvis is the King, Nat King Cole had a wonderful voice, my mother in law bought all of Ken Dodds Records, I can remember Cheryl Cole or whatever her name is describing a Roy Orbison song as 'cheesy', stupid tart
Thanks Strimms - you may not have meant it to, but that last frank and factual observation had me genuinely laughing out loud! :-)
Of course, it may have escaped everyone else's attention, it certainly did mine until just now (and Strimm's comment on Cheryl Cole), but all of Hap's choices are male. There are surely female singers worthy of consideration? I'll throw one out there for now - Sandy Denny.
Random Best singer thread-who was the best on 21:03 - Oct 28 by mrhappy
Oh yes
For nobody to hear...
But like all the others in the main she died young.
Why do they self destruct?
In Sandy's case, a combination of drugs and a flight of stairs...
...but you're right, many of the truly gifted artistic geniuses do leave us far too soon - Nick Drake, Kirsty MacColl, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Marc Bolan, Buddy Holly, Kurt Cobain, James Dean, Janis Joplin - the list goes on and on. Drugs and/or suicide are a common factor for these blessed yet tortured souls, though fast cars, planes and speed boats also feature quite heavily. But maybe too their untimely death is a factor in measuring their genius - if they'd gone on to be tired washed-out old has-beens, rolling out their weary classics of yesteryear to a frankly disinterested public, would we remember them how we do?
edit: and of course Freddie Mercury Gerry, shouldn't have forgotten him.
I think that Eddie Cochran could be added to the above, but then I'm ancient. could have gone to his last show in Bristol but it was too far to go. Ho hum. I can also recall sitting in my dads car outside Molineux after a game and hearing on the radio that Buddy Holly had died in a plane crash, must have had an affect as I still recall the moment.
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Random Best singer thread-who was the best on 22:08 - Oct 28 by wessex_exile
In Sandy's case, a combination of drugs and a flight of stairs...
...but you're right, many of the truly gifted artistic geniuses do leave us far too soon - Nick Drake, Kirsty MacColl, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Marc Bolan, Buddy Holly, Kurt Cobain, James Dean, Janis Joplin - the list goes on and on. Drugs and/or suicide are a common factor for these blessed yet tortured souls, though fast cars, planes and speed boats also feature quite heavily. But maybe too their untimely death is a factor in measuring their genius - if they'd gone on to be tired washed-out old has-beens, rolling out their weary classics of yesteryear to a frankly disinterested public, would we remember them how we do?
edit: and of course Freddie Mercury Gerry, shouldn't have forgotten him.
[Post edited 28 Oct 2015 22:10]
thanks buddy
MR HAPPY SAYS BE HAPPY - LIFE IS SHORT - MAKE IT COUNT ! GOD BLESS YOU !
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