To be thoroughly bewildered by the success of Chris De Burgh?

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Just watching him being interviewed by Aled on Weekend and now performing live.

I have always found him to be thoroughly unattractive in a slimy creepy kind of way, he has zero charisma, his voice is weak and warbly and really not pleasant to listen to and his song writing is beyond dull.

Yet he's unbelievably rich and successful and on his 21st album.

Who buys his stuff? who goes to his concerts? Someone must! I just don't get it. It's making me irrationally irritated to think that there are people out there who actually like him and love his work. It's just not right. IANBU. You know it.

I would never judge Katie Price or Sam Fox but I really do judge Rosanna Davidson. She had every privilege, financially, academically, genetically, and parents and siblings who loved and supported her and she still took off her kit for a lads' mag. That is good for NO woman. Although, I understand why women from poorer less privileged backgrounds do it. Like say, Kendra, who was an addict as well as having a bad relationship with her mother and an abusive step father.

It really annoys me to see somebody who had every privilege behave in way.

She had every privilege, financially, academically, genetically,

Well I have never seen her mother but I think it's fair to assume she VERY got lucky with the genes from her mother's side. Let's face it, it could have gone either way and if it had gone the other way we wouldn't be needing to discuss her at all.

in fact if I were him I'd be wanting a DNA test

Can't imagine a female version of CdB getting many offers in the glamour modelling department.

Yep. Safe to say she doesn't take after her dad.

His daughter was on "Who do you think you are?" They traced the De Burgh's all they way back to Louis the fourteenth apparently they are related to most of Europe's Royalty.

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I agree OP and I feel the same way about lots of performers.

I think people get over excited about lots of average people. Goodness knows why. It takes a lot to excite me. Don't rate 'The Boss' either although he is very attractive or Billy Joel. I'll never forgive him for how he treated Christie Brinkley.

I love Christie Brinkley and want to look like her. Always have done. We are similar age and she looks as gorgeous as I look fugly.

Ahhhh... never mind...

Cliff Richard

Is unfairly maligned. Yes he has recorded more than his fair share of utter bilge (in fact about 80% of his output is utter bilge) and he comes across as a bit of a prat, but there is some really good stuff there too.

The stuff with the Shadows has some gems: 'Move it' is one of the earliest British rock and roll records and is one of the few examples that stand up to their American counterparts. Of the same era 'Dynamite' is great.

During a brief period in the late 1960s/ early 1970s he had a really great run of singles where he got his groove on. There's loads of material that makes you think: 'WHAT????? This is Cliff Richard???? The same Cliff Richard????'

I'd urge anyone who dismisses Cliff Richard out of hand to give the following a listen

'Throw down a line'
'In the past'
'The joy of living'
'Jesus'

Devil Woman'

You could fill one album full of absolute solid gold Cliff masterpieces. Sadly you could fill several audio libraries of tripe he's comitted to vinyl, especially in the last 40 years.

He wrote 'Lady In Red' about his wife. He wrote 'Blonde Hair, Blue Jeans' for his bit on the side mistress (his children's babysitter) classy
I can't understand how his daughter got so famous

I love Andre Rieu So cheerful and he puts lots of effort into his concerts. No lip syncing there

Whatever happened to Richard Clayderman and his ivory tinkling?

He was all the rage at dinner parties in the 80s

I had a job in a shop one Christmas where they played 2 tapes (not even CDs) on a loop: some awful jazzed-up carols and Richard Clayderman. Even now the association is so strong that the opening bars of Ballad for Adeline make me panic that I'm not stocking the Beano annuals fast enough.

CaB sounds like car being strangled, especially during the chorus of the Spaceman song. Apologies if .someone has already mentioned that. Chris de Burgh: so bad we insult him twice.

Devil Woman brings me out in hives.

I see your Devil Woman and raise you... Wired for Sound

Oh yes Katie... I give you Mistletoe and Wine. could hardly bring myself to type it

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OP- Are you my mum? The only request she made regarding my wedding was that the DJ didn't play "that bloody awful song". I was more than happy to oblige and personally requested no Status Quo.

On the other hand, Miss You Nights is a fabulous song, as is On the Beach.
He does have a lovely voice does Cliff, I can't deny it.

And, lest we forget...the musical opus that was Carrie (doesn't live here, anymore).

Oh yes...

The Millenium Prayer.

You have no idea how much therapy I've had to have just to be able to type that.

I didn't want to have to do this, but I see now there is no choice.

Daddy's Home

And KS wins the Internet...

Yes, but at what cost?
(wrings hands)
I'm sorry.

I'm reelling from the pp who went to a school where the pupils were playing CdB **on their guitars - what, 15, 16 year olds playing CdB???

That would be me. My social life could have been better in fairness