Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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I was wondering if someone had hacked the BBC website but it seems to be for real.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17222934Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Englebert Humperdinck, the guy who made the 'C' silent...leaving us with 'rap'.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Do we not have any young(er) talent left.
We're not going to win, whatever song or singer we put forward - the voting is not done on merit of either, so it's a pointless exercise.
Roger
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This is bizarre..Englebert Humperdinck is 75 years old and as far as I can tell has been off the scene for years and years and years
. Only old geezers like me remember him and jeez it was a different world back then. Him and Tom Jones were rivals in the old smoothie smoochie end of the market. Women used to throw their..ahem...unmentionable attire..at them.
Please release me from this nightmare
Kids everywhere, not only here in the UK but right across Europe will fall off their chairs laughing. We have no chance. Out of touch completely.
Ross Miller
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Or maybe
the Beeb is doing one of two things in protest at the bizarre voting -
Extracting the Michael from the competition in a typically British tongue in cheek way, or
Treating it with the contempt it deserves
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
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Englebert may have been out of circulation over here Paul, but he has been playing Vegas for years and has made many millions out of it.
I'd like to think you are right of either/both of those Ross.
Roger
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"Take these Danes from the chart, let it be me..."
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Tom Jones has reinvented himself nicely, though. Lovely blues-y voice and the ability to take himself less than seriously have taken him back to the top (not that he was ever far from it!).
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Paul Gambaccini was on Radio 2 this morning explaining/justifying the choice. Apparently the BBC have given up on putting in a pop song that will appeal to the young masses and istead have chosen Engelbert to go for
1) the old geezer vote as no-one else is likely to put in an old geezer (for good reason, they don't stand a chance) and
2) the ultra hip vote.
Apparently he has a big "ultra-hip" following in New York as he sang a song about a Lesbian Seagull in 'Beavis and Butthead do America' in 1996, so that will be high up in the memory of all those people voting from the States - it's a (expletive deleted!) EUROPEAN song contest.
I don't go along with Ross's view, I think they're in La La Land the lot of them, and I don't mean singalong La La
A lesbian seagull.............................?
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Bizarre to say the least, but with the inane lyrics that 'Eurotrash' singers/bands throw out each time Eurovision comes around maybe Dana has got a chance representing Ireland.
Go for it Engelbert! Null Point!
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The guy who wrote Lesbian Seagull, Tom Wilson Weinberg, only mentions the Red Hot Chilli Peppers version on his website.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lesbian-Seagull/dp/B00476FNW8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330683928&sr=8-1
There's certainly a varied degree of topics on here at present, from Pugin to lesbian seagulls via Vic in Macedonia
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No comment, just quoting!
"On 25 February 2009, Leicester City Council announced that Humperdinck would be given the Honorary Freedom of Leicester alongside author Sue Townsend and former professional footballer Alan Birchenall."
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The greatest problem associated with the Eurovision Song Contest, as any Irish person will attest, is that the competition is hosted the next year by the winning nation.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Ive just seen an item on this on BBC News 24. They showed a series of films of the man of the moment singing away...but here's the thing...all the films of him singing are 30/40 years old. Jeez where has he been. has he been in mothballs somewhere..or, did he go into the desert north of Las Vegas in prayer and meditation, not for 40 days but for 40 years? If the BBC havent got any recent film of him to show then things is desperate ...
They are resusitating him as we speak from the catacombs of the long forgotten, pumping spit and oxygen into his lungs, brushing off the dust and cobwebs ...one more revolution of the turntable required Englebert.
Lol
yes Ray..we are covering everything from Pugin to Lesbian Seagulls..never a dull moment.
I hear they have borrowed the Chilean Miners underground lift to bring him back up...........
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Bookies usually give odds on the various acts winning, I wonder if they'll give odds on Engelbert surviving until the event
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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The Eurovision song contest is a long-standing farce and if this is the Beeb showing a sense of humour and a bit of contempt for this so called contest then bring it on. Who knows, I might even be tempted to watch for a change.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Thinking of it, they probably had every decent young act decline in order not to wreck their careers.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Shouldn't really admit to this but I always watch the Eurovision Song Contest
although it has turned to mush in the last decade or so. Being a fan of Sir Terry Wogan always drew me in having spent a lifetime listening to him on Radio 2. I remember when Eurovision gave us great songs like 'Blue Blue my World is Blue' and so on.
Will be interesting to see Englebert doing his thing if nothing else and I hear that Jedwood will be representing Ireland again this year for the second year running
Apparently Ireland do this by public vote now so we have the very young up against the very old and I suspect neither will have a chance of winning