Fuck. Too soon, too soon - another week begins. We need a pick-me-up!
Among another "mixed bag" of names such as Neil Patrick Harris, Edvard Grieg, James Robertson Justice, Noddy Holder (who is 80 years old), Richard Baker, Johnny Hallyday, Simon Callow, Courteney Cox, Harry Nilsson, Lord John Redwood, Erroll Garner, David Rose, Waylon Jennings, Chris Morris, Yuri Andropov, Helen Hunt, Julie Hagerty and - erm - Xi Jinping...
...it would also have been the 80th birthday of the unlikeliest of sex symbols, Demis Roussos!
On this Tacky Music Monday, out of his lesser-known back-catalogue, I have discovered this! Lemon-and-brown flared outfits deserve a comeback.
However, we can never disassociate the man from the legendary summer of '76, fifty years ago, with its stand-pipes in the streets and months of sunshine.
Reflecting that magnificent heatwave, the great Greek mountain emerged from obscurity to hit Number 1 with one of the eternal summer anthems:
It always brings back thoughts of Abigail's Party to me...
"Laurence, Angela likes Demis Roussos, Tony likes Demis Roussos, I like Demis Roussos and Sue would like to hear Demis Roussos.
So do you think we could have Demis Roussos on?"
"It's a pity he's so fat."
Yeah, but he doesn't sound it, though, when you hear him."
Demis Roussos (born Artemios Ventouris-Roussos, 15th June 1946 – 25th January 2015)
