tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post7702236196251075969..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: Bookmarks: Cilla BlackSimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-67067479973792540652015-08-08T14:06:06.962+00:002015-08-08T14:06:06.962+00:00The Gracie Fields comparison is spot on, though; i...The Gracie Fields comparison is spot on, though; it's precisely how she was so loved, even in the first incarnation, despite blatantly not being able to sing. I tend to prefer "Conversations" and "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" (the latter being the one Agnetha covered) to the more obvious, crowd-pleasing hits; they have an ominous melancholy about them apt for the moment they were released, when the first seeds for the political diversion of the working class were planted.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-36965707243930852802015-08-08T14:04:26.592+00:002015-08-08T14:04:26.592+00:00Ah yes, the same Andy Medhurst who once (when it l...Ah yes, the same Andy Medhurst who once (when it looked as if the BBC would be scaled down to a Himalayan Option, the first time) suggested, in a eulogy for Simon Bates, that the vocal music played on Radio 3 being "in foreign languages" was *in itself* a case against it ...<br /><br />I think we might get an idea here of why, by my own admission, I felt relatively little when Cilla died compared to how I know a lot of other people felt; I don't have that kind of atavistic feeling for the common people, not least because I don't think you can have that feeling without, at least, being prepared to cut Europhobia a lot more slack than I am.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.com