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.

Or a drunken Scotsman asking for class A's

Or a very drunken Scotsman trying NOT to go to Paris.

My drunken compatriots wouldn't make it that far, the hyper market at Calais is the furthest they get.

YvaineStormhold
Neil Diamond wrote Daydream Believer and Pleasant Valley Sunday for the Monkees.

For that alone he deserves God status.

Sorry, but that's not correct. He wrote "I'm a Believer" (a much better song than "Daydream Believer" though) and Pleasant Valley Sunday is not Neil Diamond either, it's a Goffin and (Carole) King song.

I think I'm safe in betting that the 15, 16 year olds playing CdeB on their guitars belonged to the Christian Union and sported mohair jumpers, yes?

It was the folk group actuallyNot sure about the mohair but there were definitely woolly jumpers and fingerless gloves involved.

3litlefrogs- Gallagher & Lyle! Such a long time since I heard anyone mention them- they were fab. I am a bit younger than you (born 73) but my Dad had their cassette Willy & the Lapodog with "Give a Boy a Break" and "Harmonium" and the one that starts "I've been sheltered all of my days, you opened up the door". I wore it out as a teenager. Happy times.

It was the folk group actually
OMG, I think I just fell in love with you a little bit Darwin

I saw him in the 70s at Leeds Town Hall. He was on with Gallagher and Lyle and they were both supporting Supertramp.

I always loved Spanish Train.

Sorry, but that's not correct. He wrote "I'm a Believer" (a much better song than "Daydream Believer" though) and Pleasant Valley Sunday is not Neil Diamond either, it's a Goffin and (Carole) King song.

Correct. Neil Diamond also wrote 'Little bit me, little bit you for the Monkees too.

Neil Diamond is a truly great performer. It ranks as one of the best gigs I've ever been to in my life and I was extremely sceptical about going but was astonished by how God it was.

I love Neil Diamond! !!

Altogether now

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet Caroline

"Hands, touching hands
Reaching out, touching me, touching youuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Although Solitary Man and I am...I said are my favourites.

Good times never felt so good...

There was an American comedy film about a guy who was a Neil diamond impersonator. Quite funny!

A Spaceman came travelling is a seminal xmas song

^ yes, yes, yes to this!!

I really like Lady in Red too

How can you say the Spaceman song is seminal when all the chorus is:

"La la lalalalala la la la la la la la la

La "??????

Fucked that up, didn't I?

In my defence...I'm a bit thick

How can you say the Spaceman song is seminal when all the chorus is:

"La la lalalalala la la la la la la la la

La "??????

There's a ducking pool missing its witch somewhere.

Sorry. Typo.

Nana nana nana nana nanaaaaaàh!

Now you're talking... Neil Diamon - class, pure class.

No one's mentioned Leo Sayer?! I went to see him live about 4 or 5 times what was I thinking? Little squirt!

Nana nana nana nana nanaaaaaàh!

I only hope this isn't some PA attempt to shift the focus to slagging off Bananarama.

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye is another seminal song.

You need to learn some respect.

Did the girls in Bababrama ever smile???? The only song I ever liked was with the fun boy three - now thats really saying something ha ha see what I did there? It's too early for punctuation.

Theres a market in my town square every saturday and the cd man plays Nathan Fucking Carter at full blast. Its dire.

Well I'm English and every town I've ever lived in, including the one I live in now has a market stall of Irish CDs (mostly country music and a smattering of diddly-eye stuff) blaring out up and down the high street.

It's like some kind of unwritten law that wherever Irish people might settle in numbers of more than three, an Irish Country Music market trader must follow.

Can't bear Chris de Burgh
My all time most hated record is Lady in red, I have to turn it off makes me want to puke.
In fact I requested at out wedding to the DJ specifically not to play it as some people knew I hated it - and the bastard played it.

Some Irish guy, Damien Dempsey (?), supported Morrissey. It was all very naice and Irish and all but not my bag. DH said he'd turn it off on the radio, people beside me said they wouldn't buy the cd. So watch out for him, he'll be next

Just watch MTV for a few minutes. If any thing vaguely musical is played you'll see that it's still possible to be successful by recording a pile of shit and passing it off as music. Chris de Burgh is probably more talented than these faux street urchins but he's still bland and awful. Thank goodness he doesn't wear a backwards baseball cap, shake his arse and make baffling gestures with his fingers.

Not sure where I'm going with this