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.

Yvainestormhold thanks for posting the photo of Bruce, it's been far too long since I saw that

Yvaine pale white skin, hate summer, love opaque tights, have flabby bits, love books - all things we have in common and now Bruce. I might love you a little bit but I can't tell DH.

Flirting on a Chris De Burgh thread?
Go to your room and have a good long think about your behaviour, young lady.

Sorry

electicflyzapper

Thats why I like his music too.
Love that he writes about things others dont. The songs just seem more 'adult' in tone, lyrics and emotion.

In a country churchyard is one of my faves too. Had it for the first song at my wedding.

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???? Am just listening to the Country Churchyard song (which sounds just like the Snowman one) and frankly, if you'd even been caught humming that my school in the 80s you wouldn't have made it out alive. And I lived rural.

He sings like Fergal Sharkey, another Wobbly McWobbleface.

Love Spotify. Am hoping DH will ask what I am listening to so I can answer "Chris de Burgh".

Posted earlier and had to come back with aflashback memory of snogging a boy called Mark who was in the navy, whilst at a disco at Hamilton Hall near Beccles to Lady In Red. ''Twas Sumer of 86. I loved him a little bit. And would have loved him more if mext the I saw him he hadn't been wearing a bolero jacket.

I went on a date with a guy called Mark in the Navy in 1987, he wasn't wearing a bolero jacket though. But he was from darn sowf and I am Scottish so I dumped him for a local. I was shallow from an early age.

But he was from darn sowf and I am Scottish so I dumped him for a local.

Perfectly understandable. There are some things that you just shouldn't compromise on.

Like the wondrous CdB.

"Horses for courses and all that I,m not paticularly keen on Madonna and i dont think her voice is great neither did i think David Bowie was a good singer ,but clearly millions of people dont agree with me."

David Bowie and Madonna both had a lot more going for them than just their voices - CdB not so much, as the OP states

But dance DOES rhyme with romance (Scottish)

Love the Spaceman song but the rest is dire.

Got introduced to CdB at age 16 with The Getaway album and have loved his music ever since. There's a lot more than what is usually played on the radio. Everyone has different tastes in music.

The irony is I was born in Watford.
(Moved back when I was 2 months old with Scottish parents, hence the Scottishness). So both shallow and hypocritical. I'm ok with that, though.

That it'd be fine sleeping if he was Scottish and singing with a bit of a Scottish twang but he isn't. The way he does it makes him sound terribly posh. He should sing it the way it's spelt. Dance doesn't have an R in it.

For fellow Bruce fans, if you haven't seen him covering 'Purple Rain', have a look on You Tube, it's amazing.

True seaviewer

Flirting on a Chris De Burgh thread? shock

Don't forget it was on the Lord's Day as well Katie

shocking behaviour indeed.

I am starting to think I might need to shoehorn my mum onto a coach of OAPs and take her for a jolly jaunt to an Andre Rieu concert now. She'd love it. She keeps telling me about him and it's starting to sound like a middle aged child's right of passage. A little glimpse into the future for me.

At what age do these things start to appeal, do you think? About the same time as you start wearing beige things with elasticated waists? I haven't got long then.

DeBurgh is a lyrical gangsta. He speaks for the youth

Funny you say that, Naze. Didn't Phil Collins become an urban rap icon? With a load of Hip Hop stars doing an album of his hits? They reckon he's a "street" hero, that he's talking their language... Or did I imagine the whole thing?

Usually Ireland is massively proud of any of its sons and daughters who make it big. We were proud of B*Witched for God's sake! But for some reason we've always been a bit embarrassed about Chris de Burgh.

I have an Irish guest, lovely girl. I just asked her, she said "completely cheesy singer, would you like a cup of tea?"
Like I said, lovely lovely girl.

And the tea was made with Barries tea bags which she brought me back from a recent trip home. Along with very nice chocs and a six pack of Tayto.
I may never let her leave.

Now, B*witched had some top tunes. My DCs love "C'est la vie". The dancing, the whistley bit, the double denim - what's not to like?

He did Betty ODB from the Wu Tang Clan & Lil' Kim both said it

I think of his name as Chris de Bleurgh. Descriptive of his effect on me. Much like Orlando Blah, because he's so boring (IMO).