Somewhere between Andy Williams and the guy from Edison Lighthouse
Somewhere between Andy Williams and the guy from Edison Lighthouse. A bit cheesy maybe, but that’s OK.You probably know the cabaret circuit well, but it wasn’t quite hip enough for you, was it? What you wanted was a hit record Well now you’ve got it. And what a smile! When you turn to the camera and sing “You’re my Wonderwall …” well, I expect you’ll be breaking a few hearts in 1996.Odd, though, that you left the first line out of the song. Are you allowed to do that? I doubt if Wotsit Gallagher will mind, just as long as he gets his royalties. And your lush-voiced, no-nonsense arrangement has certainly made us take notice of the tune. Where have we heard it before? The nearest I can get to it is “Judy in Disguise (with glasses)”. Everyone knows that one was having a giggle at “Lucy in the Sky (with diamonds)”.That’s not your game though, is it? You’re not taking the mickey, are you? You’re above that kind of thing Anyone can see that you’re a genuine performing artist.
You resemble the bloke from the Carpenters a bit, don’t you? Or is it the drunmmer from the Bay City Rollers? Probably just a coincidence. yeah, we geddit, great!Sorry, your correct name is The Mike Flowers Pops, isn’t it? The BBC must love that It chimes so nicely with Top of the Pops You were obviously made for each other You’ve got the right face for the show. These actors-turned-singers took the easy route to pop stardom. After all, anyone can have a hit with standards like “Unchained Melody” and “I Believe”, can’t they? You, on the other hand, have bravely covered a proper modern rock song.
Well done! And so nice to have an easy listening version of a composition that is actually very, very deep.
‘Cos that’s your speciality Music for Pleasure MFP Mike Flowers Pops … You’re tipped to swoop to the coveted chart position past Boyzone, Queen and Bjork. Wow! That’ll be sweet revenge for Oasis, whose original version of the song was fended off the top slot by the ubiquitous Robson and Jerome. The word is on the street that your cover of “Wonderwall” is set to be this Christmas’s No1 hit record. She does not know where Mr Ashby will go this year.”Of course it’s going to be very hard Of course I have forgiven my daughter. It was terrible for her having to give evidence against her own mother But you always forgive your children I didn’t blame her for it But the future is hard There are no happy endings here.”.
She plans to stay in England, and expects to spend Christmas with Alexandra. “I still do.” Mr Ashby declared through his tears: “I still think she’s wonderful.”It was only in the corridor as she sat alone that Mrs Ashby allowed herself the luxury of sentiment. “If you love someone, you trust them fully, and I love David more than my life,” she said. (She claims she did not know because her husband never told her.) “Should you wish to consider prosecuting my wife, I’m prepared to be interviewed,” he wrote.Yet after all the pain and the accusations both added a final theatrical flourish by insisting they still loved each other. Even when she believed her husband was gay, Mrs Ashby said she could not let go.