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cod'ead wrote:Rumours on the twittersphere that Mikhail Gorbachev has bought the farm too. Maybe not as popular but had a damn sight more impact in the world than a couple of warblers.
Correction, looks like he's still hanging around
Even if he had joined Robin and Donna in the choir invisibule, I don't think this thread was meant as a yardstick to judge the relative world impacts made by random pop stars and random countries' leaders?
And I didn't even know he could sing, although I love his tattoo
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Ferocious Aardvark wrote:T Donna Summer may have been the queen of disco but her defining record for me was her brilliant version of Macarthur Park.
First of all I have to declare that I absolutely hated the late 1970s disco era, hated it then, hate it now, always will, poop served up in a tub and sold as choclate ice cream.
So you won't be surprised that I totally disagree with your opinion on how she violated one of Jimmy Webb's finest songs.
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ROBINSON wrote:I think she was asking why you thought they were plonkers?
In fact I'd like to know. I don't think they particularly came across in a negative way.
On the basis of a recent documentary alone, utterly lacking in any sense of self-deprecation and humour. So unbelievably full of themselves, convinced of their total genius, and also a tad creepy, in a Cliff sort of way.
As I said, I love some of the music.
Do you remember the time they were on Clive Anderson's chat show and they got up mid-interview and fooked off? They didn't seem to like having the mickey taken out of them, that's for sure.
Rock God X wrote:Do you remember the time they were on Clive Anderson's chat show and they got up mid-interview and fooked off? They didn't seem to like having the mickey taken out of them, that's for sure.
I do.
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McLaren_Field wrote:First of all I have to declare that I absolutely hated the late 1970s disco era, hated it then, hate it now, always will, poop served up in a tub and sold as choclate ice cream.
So you won't be surprised that I totally disagree with your opinion on how she violated one of Jimmy Webb's finest songs.
You must have liked "Disco Duck", though?
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