Entertainment For Lively Minds
Guess Who?
"There’s no doubt in my mind that I’m a great songwriter. Pop songwriting is a real craft and I’ve always known I was good at it. Even when I started, in my teens, I was surprised by how easy it was for me to come up with a melodic hook that will stick in your head. I don’t think I’m being big-headed. I mostly play piano, but I’m a rubbish pianist. I’m so utterly crap on guitar, I probably shouldn’t go near one. As a front man, I’d rate myself as okay, but as a songwriter I naturally have that magic required to write hits.”
As quoted in an interview this weekend. If there aren't any right answers by lunchtime I'll drop in a couple of lyrics to help you along...
No spoilers please - if you did read the original, please let others enjoy the anticipation.
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I'm going to guess...
...at Weller. Actually, no, I revised that idea as soon as I typed it - he wouldn't be so big on "pop": not worthy enough.
Well, I'm going to guess that you wouldn't have posted this if it wasn't entirely risible, which means flash-in-the-pan landfill indie, almost inevitably.
I'm going to settle on that little twat from Big Pink. "Dominoes" is possibly the worst single I've heard in the last year.
I'd love it to be
Andrew Stone, frontman of Starman and unintentional comedy lead in Pineapple Dance Studio on Sky. Here's his biog:
http://sky1.sky.com/pineapple-studios-andrew-stone
However, he wouldn't be interviewed in a paper so I don't know. But I bet the band/artist is crap.
'Everyone's gonna think I'm an arrogant tosser'
Come now, Andrew! You're too hard on yourself.
Gary...
Barlow?
It must be
How could it be anyone else?
No spoilers
I had someone in mind so I googled it, but my guess was wrong [I thought it was Ronan Keating].
He's not Word mag compatible, but he has written some hits. But great songwriter? Not yet!
[Ok, now I can't get the big hit out of my head - you know the one - Damn!]
Sadly, yes...
...an excerpt from the hit(s) at this point would rather give it away, but I would disagree that he's not Word compatible. Unless that's what finally put the final nail in the coffin of the Cornbury deal...
Johnny Borrell?
The proverbial legend in his own mind.
That was my guess
Although I couldn't remember his name.
All I could think of was: "that twat form Razorlight"
It's not
Costello is it?
Robbie Williams?
The deluded clown?
I read the original article
I read the original article on Sunday and almost dropped my knitting.
The chap's a buffoon.
I Googled...
...and am now cleaning coffee off my laptop. Hilarious.
Scooter
him or Basshunter. One of the greats
Someone modern I'd guess
Mika?
Jay Sean?
Tinie Tempah?
Ready?
Step forward Roy Stride, of the popular Elvis-Ain't-Dead-Hitmakers Scouting for Girls.
"She's pretty, a fitty, she's got a boyfriend though and that's a pity". That was them.
The interview concludes - “If I ever start acting like a pop star, all anyone has to do is mention Brian May and I’ll be back down to earth with a bang.”
This is the one that's stuck in my head
If the great Kenneth Clark was still alive...
he could have made a follow-up series to Civilisation called Civilisation's Nadir or something similar. The programmes would parade all manner of cultural effluent throughout the ages, leading up to a devastating critique of the sheer wretchedness of that song.
The May
Always seemed a decent enough cove in the limited interview material I've seen or heard. What's Mr Stride's problem with him?
The Brian May incident...
“We knew that nobody would recognise us, but when we got out of our car, hundreds of kids started screaming. Two seconds later, we realised it was because Brian May had just got out of the car behind us. So we walked the red carpet and, right enough, not a soul knew who we were. When we reached the door, a bloke asked us for tickets. We explained we were just walking in and out the back, but he insisted we needed tickets. It was so humiliating. We had to walk back down the carpet, past the photographers who couldn’t care less, past all the kids who didn’t know who we were, but knew Brian May, then hang around trying to locate our car.
“If I ever start acting like a pop star, all anyone has to do is mention Brian May and I’ll be back down to earth with a bang.”
Is it...
...Pete Waterman?
I enjoyed
Elvis Isn't Dead at the time - a decent enough pop song, sounded good on the car radio. I've no desire to hear anything else by them (anything I have heard sounds just the same) and fortunately I completely missed their version of London Calling, but yeah, the Elvis one I liked that. However, 'a great songwriter'...nah. Came up with one hook and used it ad infinitum. Must have made an absolute packet though. That "She's So Luvverly' rubbish was everywhere.
Er, Roy
who?
I think you'd be hard pressed...
...to find a songwriter who is more resolutely repetitive than this bloke. Every. Single. Song. Sounds. Identical.
Although, you never know, he might have written the 21st Century answer to "Blood On The Tracks", but has chosen not to release it out of modesty. He strikes me as the modest type.