Saturday 5 January 2013

Lookalikes Xmas edition

Not content with just being a lookalike for Tony or Rory Underwood, Forbesy has gone and posted this festive photo on his FaceBook page... where it was just begging to be harvested!

Snow is faa-aa-allling, on the staaa-aa-ags, 
adults playing, having fun,
t'is the season, cheesy jumpers, 
merry xmas everyone. 
 (Ian Forbes, the Shakin' Stevens of The Grange)



Shakin' Stevens is preparing for a gig at Wolverhampton's Civic Hall, part of a UK tour. Last year he didn't expect to be on the road again. He had a heart attack, stopped breathing, and was pummelled back to life by his manager and partner, Sue Davies, who pumped his heart so hard that she broke one of his ribs.


Today he has a pacemaker and is in remarkably good nick. The white shoes and pink jacket have gone, but he still looks suitably rock'n'roll – blue shades indoors, hair tinted reddish-black.
Shakin' StevensShakin' Stevens. Photograph: Alan Ballard/Scopefeatures.com
Stevens, who was born Michael Barratt, started his working life as a milkman. He released 18 singles between 1970 and 1979 without success. Then, in the 80s, Shaky, in his 30s, became the top-selling male UK singles artist of the decade.
He actually finished Merry Christmas Everyone 18 months before it was released. "We recorded it in summer 1984, then heard Band Aid were putting their Christmas song out. So we thought, this is a great cause and you can't compete with charity, so it would be a waste. We didn't want it at No 2, 3, 4, we wanted it at No 1, so we held it back. Band Aid went to No 1, and the following year we released Merry Christmas and it went to No 1 and the Band Aid song was rereleased and was No 2, so we were proved right."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I don't know if the timing of this channel 4 programme is important when posting things on Facebook?


http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dont-blame-facebook


Richard McIntosh