Dead old farts corner Posted Fri Nov 24 15:57:22 GMT 2000 by 'Jake Thingy, slightly peeved'

Believe it or not, the following is absolutely genuine, and has been cut and pasted by me from The Stage's (Newspaper Of The Light Entertainment Industry) obituary of the recently snuffed-it piano player Russ Conway:

>>Conway lived in Eastbourne which he revered and said did not deserve to be termed God's waiting room. Not because he was a middle of the road music man himself, he resented the way pop and rock now dominate TV, and how TV stations ignored a vast and mature majority who wanted traditional popular songs. >>


Yeah. Him and Jonathan King, no doubt.


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Posted By Steve Berry on Fri Nov 24 17:03:00 GMT 2000:

Following his triumphant appearance on last week's 'After They Were Famous' I would also urge everyone to go out and buy Don Estelle's autobiography (publ. Don Estelle Publishing - Alan Partridge:"Never heard of them..."), entitled 'Sing Lofty'.

It is full of the most bitter rants against popular music and youth culture you will ever hear. In the introduction alone he draws comparisons between "the youth of today" and the young brown shirts of the early Nazi Party movement in the Third Reich. It's also exceptionally badly written. He, like certain forum contributors, has not mastered the art of the paragraph and, as such, some of the sentences go on for *pages*. Treat yourself this Christmas and revel in how the moderately famous can fall so low.

Cheerio

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Posted By 'Farmer Barleymow' on Fri Nov 24 17:04:21 GMT 2000:

>Yeah. Him and Jonathan King, no doubt.

On the subject of the permanently sneering twat*, looky here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1038000/1038566.stm

Blimey, what an image that conjours up. Excuse me...

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Posted By Steve Berry on Fri Nov 24 17:22:49 GMT 2000:

Ha! The BBC story doesn't mention the three criminal activities he's been charged with, namely:

Indecent assault of a minor
Attempted buggery
Buggery

I wonder if that's because no one can read out that list without sniggering.

Cheerio

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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Fri Nov 24 19:29:04 GMT 2000:

"Everyone's Gone To The Moon" he sang.

Not you, Jonathan.

You're going to prison.

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