Does my bum look big in this..?
Another long, drawn out week of dealing with trivia and absolute idiots is almost over. To quote Malcolm Tucker from The Thick Of It, and dedicated to this week: “Yeah, yeah. Andy Murray, Andy Pandy, fucking Ghandi, have a hand-shandy, whatever, just FUCK OFF out of my life!”
Now, breathe...
It is, after all, the day we look forward to (or at least dream about) getting in a party mood - and what better way to do so than with a proper Funk-fest?!
Sharing the day with another wildly disparate assemblage of "names", such as Jo Stafford, Grace Kelly, Sun Yat-sen, Les McKeown, Anne Hathaway, Booker T, Lucia Popp, Mariella Frostrup, Neil Young, Megan Mullally, Brian Hyland, Ryan Gosling, Nadia Comăneci (who is 60), Alexander Borodin, Tonya Harding, and - erm - Charles Manson, it would have been one of the masters of Funking, my eternal "secret teenage crush", the late, great Errol Brown's birthday today!
To herald in the impending weekend, let's have a portion [I wish!] of the great man and his incredible performing trousers - and Thank Disco It's Friday!
I never tire of it...
Have a great weekend, dear reader!
Footnote:
If you need your party a bit more "ramped-up", however...
This week, we lost two great contributors to the rich tapestry of "party music" - founder-member of UB40 Astro and Andrew Barker of 808 State. So, by way of a tribute, how about the "meeting of true minds" that was this techno oddity?!
Wickid!
Yep, Errol was cool - he had that glint in his eye!
ReplyDeleteAnd that was an interesting version of One in Ten - think I prefer the original.
Have a fab weekend, Jon!
Sx
That glint in his eye and that wiggle of the tush - it did it for me!
DeleteJx
PS I prefer the original, too, but the opportunity was too good to miss, given the sad departure of two of the contributors to this mix.
Les McKeown was a heartbreaker, yes? There were cuter boys in the band, but, hey... everybody focused on Les. His solo album on Ego Trip... the photos! So much fun. Adore Hot Chocolate. Emma. You Sexy Thing. They delivered time after time. Never cared for UB40 - as I perceived them as a trifle homophobic - I think it was something the lead singer said in the press. Welcome to the weekend darling! Tip one for me! Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteYes, every budding gay boy fancied the Bay City Rollers (RIP, Les), but Hot Chocolate had class. Jx
DeletePS UB40 homophobic? It doesn't sound like them at all, being so politically "right-on" and all. I found a condemnation of homophobia by band member Brian Travers (who also died just a few weeks ago) in one of their (now archived) forum threads...
I think I might be too old for this blog...stumps off noisily on her Zimmerframe...
ReplyDeleteEvery 1's A Winner is 43 years old and One in Ten was forty years ago! How much more ancient do you need..? Jx
DeletePS Even that remix is 29 year old.