Another star bites the dust..

[sparksburnout]

Radio 5 did a rundown of the famous musicians that have gone this last year. Didn't even mention Lemmy, which I thought was bad, specially as George got quite a big mention. Can't see how he can be regarded as such an Icon myself, I thought his music was a load of cheesy rubbish personally, but I guess you have to respect the fact that people seemed to like him. Not one of the greats though, surely?
Blimey let them off, was very late 2015!! cant believe it........ how time flies

 

[GMES]

I think the problem George Michael had was getting over the stigma of wham which haunted his career for a long time.
I think if he had come straight into the music world as himself then he would have had more credibility with the wham haters.
I personally do rank him as a great song writer and it's only my opinion but anyone that can't agree he had an amazing voice must have bad ears.
You only have to watch the Queen concert he did in place of Freddie or listen to the symphonica album.
But the above is only my opinion and it's nice for different people to have different taste and it may not surprise anyone to hear I didn't rate Lemmy or any heavy rock act, I just don't get all that racket lol.
But I suppose that's what makes life interesting
I would say my top 2 singers of all time in order ate as follows.
Paul Heaton ( legend from beautiful south
Paul weller

George would be in my top 5.

 

[7029 dave]

Scary too bloody young RIP.

 

[GMES]

Apologies for spelling mistakes, I'm on my phone and predictive bloody text.

 

[sparksburnout]

Amazing how people's tastes vary! Paul Weller - absolute legend. Can't b****y stand beautiful South far too sickly for me, but that's what makes the world go round. The obvious head and shoulders loss this year was Bowie, without a doubt.

 

[Midwest]

I spent some time looking through the list of well known people who passed away in 2016 on the BBC News website. No more than normal, but you (well I do) forget who have departed. Then I see that Ken Dodd has been knighted in the New Years Honours, and I thought he passed away last year (sorry Mr Dodd)!

 

[GMES]

@sparksburnout With the south and housemartins before them it was the lyrics I first fell in love with and the first couple of south albums were when I got hooked, but that said I didn't like a lot of the mainstream stuff " Perfect ten" being a good example but I suppose if you really like someone you forgive their weaknesses.
Bowie, as you say was an absolute legend but I fought liking him for many years due to my older sister being a huge fan so it would have been uncool to like him, I then turned my attention to the Specials, Selector, madness, The Beat but only the early stuff, the likes of madness were awesome with songs like The Prince, but for me lost all credibility with tracks like house of fun etc.
But the older you get the more you appreciate and go back to music like Bowie, I now have I think all his albums.

 

[GMES]

This is a classic Paul Weller moment for me with Noel Gallagher, doing a brilliant version of That's Entertainment, It puts some of the groups of today to shame. two Guys with guitars in it's simplest form.

 

[westward10]

Paul Weller is an absolute legend and in my opinion the best contemporary song writer there has been. Live he is a man out there on his own.

 

[sparksburnout]

This is a classic Paul Weller moment for me with Noel Gallagher, doing a brilliant version of That's Entertainment, It puts some of the groups of today to shame. two Guys with guitars in it's simplest form.

Couldn't agree more GMES, brilliant. The older I get the more I find my myself listening to the old stuff. For me, Glastonbury is a prime example of how things have gone downhill over the past decade or so. Some of the carp that has "headlined" on there is terrible, no right to tread the same boards as some of the brilliant bands that have gone before them. It's not all bad news though, there are still some brilliant bands and individuals, have seen Laura Marling on a few occasions including the Albert Hall, fantastic talent.

 

[sparksburnout]

I spent some time looking through the list of well known people who passed away in 2016 on the BBC News website. No more than normal, but you (well I do) forget who have departed. Then I see that Ken Dodd has been knighted in the New Years Honours, and I thought he passed away last year (sorry Mr Dodd)!

Were you tickled?

 

[GMES]

Were you tickled?

I see what you did there!!!
I have to admit, though, I also thought he had passed away many years ago. Apologies if you're watching Ken.

 

[Midwest]

Were you tickled?

.......I am. I was going to quote one of his funny jokes, but I couldn't find one

 

[westward10]

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