Entertainment For Lively Minds
Simon Cowell & The Beatles
According to the front page of one of today's red tops Simon Cowell states that The Beatles would never have won 'X Factor'.
What can one say but thank bloody goodness!
This from a man who has manipulated the music market into a make believe world of untold fame and money.Along with Louis 'Boybland' Walsh, Cheryl 'Bruiser' Cole and Danni Minge a generation of modern youth is becoming more unaware of manufactured pop than the Larry Parnes era of taking one for the team.
Look here Simon, if you want to discover groups on your show lets have them playing instruments. Perhaps the budget provided by Mr Grade in the austere times of ITV would not run to this.
For crying out loud they use backing tapes and are nothing more than Karaoke participants from the local 'Dog & Duck'!
The Beatles were a product of hard work - honed in the slavery of the Hamburg clubs and songwriting based around a knowledge of popular music.
A 'X Factor' winner is either a buxum wench willing to enter a world of manipulation or a cringe worthy warbler who has survived some injustice of life.
Bleeding Love more like Bleeding to death!
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That man is such a bore...
I wish he'd sod off and count his money and polish his teeth someplace out of the public eye.
Simon Cowell is such a moron
He thinks he’s pointing out flaws in The Beatles when he’s actually admitting that he has a tin ear for music, no instinct for spotting star quality and that his show is fundamentally pointless. Apparently it would have been Ringo Starr that was the stumbling block for Simon and whoever all the other twats on his show are. This‘ll be the same Ringo Starr who it was deemed essential to recruit in order to progress musically beyond stomping at the Cavern and who was absolutely central to the group’s appeal, particularly in America.
Is there a worthwhile pop act ever who would have got very far in X Factor? Can’t think of one.
I don’t care how much money this ludicrous creep might have made, he knows absolutely nothing about pop music and is halfway to destroying it altogether.
Except that...
...in a week when The Beatles are the big showbiz story he's found a very easy way of getting The X Factor into the headlines alongside them. You don't think he actually means it do you?
He might do...check this...
His Desert Island Discs choices. A Fabs-free zone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20060813.shtml#dis... .
Cowell is more Colonel Tom Parker than Elvis Presley. He has his own priorities, and he is very good at selling snake oil.
Possibly not
But he could have thought of a more original observation. In fact you would have thought that anyone who spent so much of his time giving his opinions would, by the law of averages, have said at least one memorable thing about something.
I'm still waiting.
Like the coach of Canvey
Like the coach of Canvey Island having a go at the coach of Barcelona.
Or better still, and something I saw in an Oxfam last year, Vinnie Jones doing a voice over on a video about the Brazilian 1970 team!
He should listen to the remasters
and then come round here and try spinning that 'Ringo was crap' cliche. The high trousered cloth-eared loon!
No-one good would...
..ever go on that show, never mind win.
It's almost excusively populated by airheads who want a short-cut to fame, when as any fule kno, it's the work that proves the mettle.