NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
For Gods sake, if you're going to sing a song, at least have the decency to listen to it first so you can get the frigging words right.
*adds Sharleen Spitface to ever growing list*
One thing that's really annoying is the shots of the audience self-consciously dancing in their Sunday best and mouthing the words to the choruses but not the verses.
Yeah, Kate Moss has been particularly guilty of that, mugging towards the camera while pretending not to, and none of them singing the words to anything less well known than "All You Need Is Love". They all looked extremely bewildered during 'A Day in The Life', and I would've thought that was a popular one. Such a shame, because this whole fiasco could have been done so much better, and been a fitting tribute. Instead it was just a selection of rip off merchants and one hit wonders who aren't fit to lick the shite off a Beatles shoe.
And the way some of them keep sticking their hands up in the air and pointing skyward. Spiteri was really all over the vocal shop, wasn't she? And she looked distessingly like Richard Ashcroft. On the same note, Lou Reed looked a lot like Ian Dury.
Yeah, pointing at the sky like a Baptist Revival congregation. I had to turn Spitface off after about 30 seconds, when I realised what a hash she was making of one of my favourite songs. This is a case in point, Fiona Apple did a fantastic cover of 'Across The Universe' for the film 'Pleasantville', which is on a par with (and in some respects better than) the original, yet that witless scottish bint makes a complete balls up of it, and completely mispronounces half of the chorus.
Why did they have the gormless stereophonics involved in so many songs - that Kelly Jones needs to stop singing so loud or he'll burst a vein in his neck. Enjoyed the documentary though - It took 90 minutes to say how bad Yoko Ono is.
I know. It would have taken me..ooh... <-------> that long. I believe a hatred of Yoko Ono is instinctive in every human, and does not need to be explained. It's quite funny, today my beloved father, Stevie B, spent a sizeable portion of his afternoon editing every bit of the bitch out of TOTP2s Lennon tribute. Bless him.
Erm...well I quite liked Noel Gallagher and Cornershop doing "Tomorrow Never Knows", but as for the rest of them, (shrug). Lonny Donegan's always great, but his performance was spoiled by the sight of all those media whores arsing about in the audience pretending to know who the fuck he was.
Sorry, I stuck my thoughts under the Lennon Night thread. Suffice to say, they're not too kind...
He must be spinning in his urn. Or maybe he's in Ono's pillow case...
The Tomorrow Never Knows cover missed the point of the original by putting trad-rock guitars on to the original experimentation. To capture the spirit of the original, they should have got The Chemical Bros. to cover it.
TRUE: the original version of "Setting Sun" (Chemicals/Noel G) was called "Tomorrow Never Noels".
It was promoted as featuring sommat or other by the Chems but it never turned up. And it was the only reason I was watching the damn thing in the first place...