Entertainment For Lively Minds
Sportspeople Who Think They Can Sing
Posted by kcgrady on 31 March 2009 - 3:55pm.
What is the best example (read 'godawful') of a sportsperson trying to cross-over into the world of popular music? I'll start off the thread by putting up for your enjoyment an example of an Australian Rules footballer who hit the charts in the eighties. As a player he was most famous for taking his false teeth out and putting them on top of his head before he whacked an opponent behind the play...
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Kevin Ayers as rugged footballer
Its true! Here's the video evidence!
Liverpool FC
all seemed to think they could sing, or at least rap:
Hey!
Digger was the best thing about World In Motion...
Here's Peter Ebdon and who are we to argue?
At least Hoddle & Waddle had a measure of success
with Diamond Lights:
Gazza does Fog On The Tyne
This will disturb you.
What about that well known thug
and part time footballer, Mr Vincent Jones? Didn't he release a version of "Wooly Bully" on the back of some perceived upswing in his profile? I think it was before he dipped his toe into the whole Hollywood ocean (and how the hell did THAT happen?). There was also an album from him - I remember looking at it somewhere and thinking "My God - the humanity, oh the humanity..."
Kevin Keegan sings "England"
Twenty-six seconds is enough. But here's "Head Over Heels", if you want to carry on chewing your own arm off: http://tinyurl.com/6gvtry
Bloody Marvellous
A REAL sportsman, with audio samples on his official website.
Ladies and gentleman...Tony Jacklin from 1972
http://www.tonyjacklin.com/audio.htm
Ilie Nastase double faults
'Globe Trotter Lover' and 'Pour Etre Un Homme', from 1987:
New balls please!
"The gang's all here" - Ali and Cooke sing for Harry
Not a BAD example of a sportsperson singing, and it's been posted several times before, but it can only make you smile:
Sucker MC's: Andy Cole
Andy Cole makes himself at home in the rap world - next door to John Barnes and Vanilla Ice:
Ruudy Can Fail
"Not the Dancing Kind" by Ruud Gullit: