Today's Mirror: a Shaky grip on reality
Posted by Andrew Harrison on 26 June 2008 - 11:04am.
We don't usually draw readers' attention to pop writing elsewhere in the world but this fantastic EXCLUSIVE interview with Shakin' Stevens from today's Mirror is an instant classic. It's an excellent scene-setter for Mr Stevens' turn at Glastonbury this weekend, we feel.
Have WORD readers ever met their idols and discovered that their feet were not only made of clay but badly in need of Odor Eaters too? The Blog awaits your comments. Oh, and we're going to throw mud at Shaky over the weekend.
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Mud-throwing is so last year
Just get several hundred "I HEART SHAKY" t-shirts printed up and bribe a security johnny to give them out to everyone in the Glasto front row.
There isn't going to BE any mud this year.
It is going to be like the Summer of 78 with eggs frying on car bonnets and the sun cracking the Pyramid Stage, I can guarantee it. He said, hopefully.
Just checked the web cam
2 things all the best camping spots are gone oh and don't look at the weather forcast at the bottom have fun.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2008/webcam/
Please report back on shaky's new lp of emo songs and electronica
I'd hope for mud, if I were you
When the sun shines, hordes of these come out to play:
woad betide
anyone who dresses like this....
Anymore For Anymore?
Thank you so much for bringing this our way. It's priceless. Rob Brydon as Shaky springs to mind. Love the "big nose and yellow teeth" payback. Can we bloggers turn the tables on Word and also ask you to report your own instances of similar ungrateful miserable gits encountered during the course of your business, or would that be too indiscreet? It'd make a great feature, obviously best if they were now dead or unlikely to return to credibility again, I suppose.
Good call on Brydon..
...but the whole thing sounds like it's come straight from an Alan Partridge episode....
The thing is, my dad does a turn on the cabaret/university/festival circuit and the amount of past their prime 'stars' who are just like this is incredible. Honestly you couldn't make some of them up.
Stastically...
...the majority of stars must be past their prime. Discuss.
At least half, maybe.
Prime? What is prime anyway, is it age, talent, looks, sales???
None of the above
It's just vague public interest in what you're doing, I'd say. And that's why Shaky isn't in it.
Archie has it..
...as far as I meant it: you must have seen them: the musicians/comedians/vague celebrities who carry on well past the point where you could call them successful. Although if they still make a living I guess there's a level of success involved.
Past their prime to me normally means the kind of people who turn up on reality tv and make you go: "Oh are they still around?"
Dare I ask
what is a star in the first place? and who decides? just realised the answer to the second one might be heat magazine though...
Go tell that to Neil Diamond
or discuss it with his bank manager. The veteran market is booming, not least because its audience thinks “file-sharing” involves the exchange of ring binders in the office. Some you can understand, but putting Shaky on at Glastonbury seems a bit annoyingly “ironic”. And what a graceless tosspot.
Kill, Shaky, kill
In Shaky's defence, he did once attack Richard Madeley.
Comes across well doesn't he....
I've seen another similar interview with said Mr Stevens.
Sad - my first 7" was This Ole House - 99p Woolworths at Hounslow West....
Floats like a butterfly. . .
. . .sings like a sheep.
Here he is a few months ago, performing in someone's front room in Bavaria (Daryl Hall's house was apparently unavailable). The audio's way out of sync, but that's possibly a good thing.
Hello Glastonbury! Let's rock!
Wow
Where to begin?
The motorcade of blacked out vehicles, suggesting that they are conveying the President rather than a minor Welsh pop singer.
The coat. What do we call it? An anorak?
And is he holding the lyrics to "I Hear You Knocking" behind his back? Christ, *I* could sing that.
The fact that he appears to be marking the birthday of James Last.
When I was 15
I finished with a girl when I found out she was in the Shaky fanclub. Seems even Shaky agrees with that one.
Shaky
Do you reckon he was just a bit miffed at her wearing a t-shirt proclaiming love for Neil Young?
Met John Lydon last week. What a grade A tosser.
The trick with Lydon is...
not to mention the Pistols or music or McLaren (or apparently to touch him. Ask Duffy!). Get him on to Arsenal and football and he'll be as gregarious as Jonathan Ross schmoozing Billie Piper.
In 1979-1982
I loved the music of Shaky. Privately. Now I feel it's ok to like him. Thank you.
You should start up
Shaky Outrage - there must be more of you out there.
I'm surely not the only one...
who would go along with the notion that Andrew's header, "Today's Mirror: a Shaky grip on reality", rings true most days of the week.
30 Hit Singles.....
Thanks to this thread I checked on everyhit web site and was shocked and alarmed to discover that Shaky had 30 top 30 hits from 1980-1990. That's about 25 more than I remember. That set in Glastonbury's gonna be peppered with hits. ;)
Last word in your last sentence...
... shouldn't the s be at the front?
Boom Boom!!!
Very good Leedsboy. :)
Many Years Ago.....
In Cardiff I met a member of Stevens' band from the time before he made it big.
He was extremely interesting and enlightening on the ways of the 'Pop star on the make'. Lets say there was plenty to report, none of which can be repeated for fear of a Morrisey moment.
Actually...
...an early manager of 'Shaky' when he played with a band called The Sunsets is a regular face in a local boot sale around these parts. I believe he's married to a local councillor. I also once met a bloke who claimed he taught Shakin' Stevens a chord...now there's a claim to fame!
a big fan
i am appaled at the BBC for not showing any of Shaky's performance who cares if some people hate him fact is he has sold millions of records, got loads of fans and most of all has been a successful recording artists facts of 37 top 75 hits most of which were top 30 and some more No 1's could have come along had it not been other big songs coming out same time ie Love Worth Waiting for was No 2 only denied by Lional Richie - Hello a no 1 spot. he still packs gigs wherever he goes now and only thing he failed in his history of any success in America but that's no different to Westlife and Madness who have and had hits all over the world but not so much in America
Matthew