Entertainment For Lively Minds
Names you can never remember
Posted by Bigsby on 28 March 2009 - 11:39pm.
Just back from a quiz night fundraiser thingy, and kicking myself for not being able to remember Patsy Cline's name. Would have made the difference between 2nd and 1st place.....
Another one I can never remember without Googling is Diana Krall (have to approach it via the Elvis Costello, and for some reason Narrow Daylight route).
Anyone one else fail to remember certain artistes?
Of course, this thread may well result in a flurry of 'wotshisnames' etc but that is of course understood.
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Pub =
drink, not quiz
sorry
Who mentioned pubs?
It was a community centre..., so we brought our own beer.
I can't resist ...
David Crosby.
Same joke, different name
Alec Guinness
Don't torture yourself
I can't tell the difference between Patsy Cline and Doris Day.
I also can't really separate different R&B vocalists. I will guess the names I have heard of but ultimately I have no idea where Usher begins and Nelly ends.
I have the same problem
with Jackson Browne and James Taylor for some reason. They just morph into a single dull entity in my head.
Colin Blakely
(I've just had to look him up in Wikipedia to get his name, as you suspected!)
He was a character actor from the 70s - lots of films, theatre & TV work. The reason I mention him is that I always remember a Robbie Coltrane interview years ago, when he was talking about taking acting lessons, and his tutor told him that Colin Blakely was one of the best actors around.
RC's response was along the lines of "Colin who?", but the tutor explained that that was the point. He was such a good actor that you never remembered him (and he didn't often get top billing anyway), you just remembered hs characters.
The converse (which is possibly worthy of a separate thread) is people like Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep: as technically good as they are, you can't help thinking throughout their filsm, "Oh, there's Dustin / Meryl".
Joe's wife
Despite having seen her live several times and having lots of her CDs I can never remember Kimmie Rhodes name - more oddly I normally get to her name via her husbands name Joe Gracey.
I can't remember
? and the Mysterians.
Phew, that's better, I remember them now.
namesake
I could never remember the name of the drummer out of Queen. Then some one told me that it was easy as he had the same name as the drummer from Duran,Duran. Which didn´t help much..
It´s Roger Taylor, I think.
Wasn't he originally
Roger Meddows Taylor? (The Queen sticksmith, I mean). I tend to think of the '70s British tennis player if I ever think of Roger Taylor at all.
Names that merge into one
Chris Rock and Chris Tucker. Race obsessed American comedians. And are both very unfunny. I always get them confused.
The singer and who?
I can rarely remember the names of the band. Coldplay are Chris Martin plus 4 (3?) guys I don't recall. Radiohead are Thom Yorke, Johnny Greenwood (isn't he a rugby player) and 3 or 4 other people. But then again, I can't remember the names of all the people in the office. All 5 of us.
Coldradiothing
Who cares, really? Yet I wish I could get the names of the original first 23 line-ups of Fairport and the 13 internationals playing for Leeds in 1969 out of my head. I don't even like football anymore.....
Bremner, Lorimer, Clarke
Cherry, Giles, Harvey, Grey E., Charlton, Mick Jones (not the one from the Clash) - so I must be missing 4. And I am a Liverpool fan. Difficult to forget those guys.
Joe Jordan?
Not sure though. These things are better fun without looking up Wikipedia.
Reaney, yes Jordan, Hunter, Cooper
That's without looking
Doh!
How could I forget Norman Hunter?
And of course...
Madeley
Remember Remember
For me it's less an issue about trying to remember but more wishing I could forget certain artistes. Forever.
However since whatshisname formed oojimiflop back in the day I do keep forgetting the name of his previous....you know, thingy.
Leeds 69
Cherry & Jordan were well into the 70's, Cherry signed from Huddersfield
Sprake, Reaney, Cooper, Bremner, Charlton , Hunter, Lorimer, Clarke, Jones, Giles, Gray was the classic XI I remember about 69-70. Only one sub then so utility players like Rod Belfitt, Mick Bates, Madeley, one of the Hibbitts (Terry or Kenny?). Harvey would be the reserve goalie. Albert Johanssen well on his way out by then. Oh to be as innocently obsessed with football again and I was a Blackburn fan who only saw these guys on MOTD.
I don't think I'd recognise any of the current Leeds team if they walked into my living room with club kit on
Gary Sprake!!!
There's a name to conjure with, the magnificent goalie who could save the impossible and let in a trickled mistake.
And where/when was Yorath?
I remember the day Billy Bremner died ...
... a friend's first and only comment was "Copenhagen 5".
In other words, the off-field exploits overshadowed his undoubted skills and achievements at actually playing football.
Sorry, in case you didn't know
the reference to Copenhagen 5:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bremner#Scotland
(It's fairly common knowledge among Scotsmen of a certain age!)
Un-shirted Bremner
For some reason it's an enduring image. He had been sent off for fighting (with Keegan?) and took his shirt off in disgust as he walked off the pitch. In those days players didn't do that very often, whereas now it seems that players take any opportunity to show off their FHM-approved top halves.