Friday 3 April 2020

If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing



Oh, dear, Another one.

The loss of the lovely Cristina, darling of early 80s New York's artistic post-punk, post-Studio 54 scene; collaborator with August Darnell (of Kid Creole and the Coconuts and Machine fame), Don Was, Jean Paul Goude, Robert Palmer and even John Cale is a great one - for it has brought fond memories flooding back from when I first encountered the lady; with her sardonic and slightly twisted cover of this Peggy Lee classic:


However, this is also the end of another week working in our living-room during lockdown - and I have greater cause for a celebration that even that fact, for as of 4.30 today I will be officially on leave (albeit in similar environs) until after Easter!

Yay!

Thus, we need to lift our spirits and pretend we have a party to plan. And what better way than with another of the lady's faboo numbers - here with admirable support from (an uncredited) Kevin Kline - and Thank Disco It's Friday!!


RIP, Miss Cristina Monet Zilkha (née Monet-Palaci, 2nd January 1959 – 1st April 2020)

10 comments:

  1. She was brave! Peg wasn't a lady who you want to annoy.

    Kevin Kline is seriously handsome there

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    1. I'm sure Miss Lee would have enjoyed the reinterpretation no end - the songwriters Leiber and Stoller, however, were much more po-faced about it and successfully sued to get the single withdrawn from release. It made no difference to the lovely Annie Nightingale, who played it on BBC Radio 1 anyway, which is where I heard it. Jx

      PS I never found Mr Kline attractive. A decent actor, yes, but not totty.

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  2. Well, I think they should bring big moustaches back

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    1. Noooooooooooooooo!

      We had quite enough of that with leather queens, Magnum PI and Joe Stalin, thank you very much.

      Jx

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  3. I really did NOT expect to be accused of fancying Stalin today.

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    1. "If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods." - Joseph Stalin, 1936

      Jx

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  4. Still think that version of 'Is that all there is' is fab.
    It adds a twist to it that really works.
    Always sad to loose a creative person. Soon all will be left with is a myriad of plagiarists

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    1. Yes, we do appear to be living in a world where there are more "karaoke singers" than genuine creatives... Jx

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  5. Enjoy your leave! I think the weather is going to be kind to you.
    Sx

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