I saw Prince during his 21 show residency at the O2 in 2007.

When I booked it was simply about having a last chance to see a legend, with the strong suspicion that the old boy would be dialling it in.

He was absolutely gobsmacking; that was one surprise. The band was tight, his playing, singing and dancing breathtaking. But much more surprising, to me, was the warmth of his charisma. I expected a preening, cold weirdo, and got a tiny little man in spiked cuban heels who interacted with his audience, laughed and smiled with those at the front, chucked them picks on demand and genuinely tried to please the enormous crowd.

It would have been worth the ticket price just to see a misrable, bored old bloke play Purple Rain, but this wasn't a Van Morrison performance, it was more like Bruce Springsteen.

So he was good. That's just science.

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When I booked it was simply about having a last chance to see a legend, with the strong suspicion that the old boy would be dialling it in.

He was absolutely gobsmacking; that was one surprise. The band was tight, his playing, singing and dancing breathtaking. But much more surprising, to me, was the warmth of his charisma. I expected a preening, cold weirdo, and got a tiny little man in spiked cuban heels who interacted with his audience, laughed and smiled with those at the front, chucked them picks on demand and genuinely tried to please the enormous crowd.

It would have been worth the ticket price just to see a misrable, bored old bloke play Purple Rain, but this wasn't a Van Morrison performance, it was more like Bruce Springsteen.

So he was good. That's just science.

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I saw the Lovesexy tour in 88 or 89. He did his version of Nothing Compares to U and it was quite simply, amazing

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When I booked it was simply about having a last chance to see a legend, with the strong suspicion that the old boy would be dialling it in.

He was absolutely gobsmacking; that was one surprise. The band was tight, his playing, singing and dancing breathtaking. But much more surprising, to me, was the warmth of his charisma. I expected a preening, cold weirdo, and got a tiny little man in spiked cuban heels who interacted with his audience, laughed and smiled with those at the front, chucked them picks on demand and genuinely tried to please the enormous crowd.

It would have been worth the ticket price just to see a misrable, bored old bloke play Purple Rain, but this wasn't a Van Morrison performance, it was more like Bruce Springsteen.

So he was good. That's just science.

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As a teen, I once painted my bedroom peach and black in his honour.

I've never admitted that in public before. :-(

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As a teen, I once painted my bedroom peach and black in his honour.

I've never admitted that in public before. :-(

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You would do me a great honour if you would refer to me only as 'Symbol' in future. Thank you.

I can't find your new address, for some reason. Would you mind emailing me? I have this phone as well as the charger you left in the bedroom.

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As a teen, I once painted my bedroom peach and black in his honour.

I've never admitted that in public before. :-(

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Were you dressed up as C3PO when you did this?

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Were you dressed up as C3PO when you did this?

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In The City released 40 years ago today.I may put some white tiles on my bathroom wall in their honour.

Flipping hell

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02hz2kg

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Flipping hell

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02hz2kg

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Why is Monty's mum in The Waterboys, c?

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In The City released 40 years ago today.I may put some white tiles on my bathroom wall in their honour.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t9Iwj0DJO4

Quite frankly the rest can shove their raspberry beret up their *******s.

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Flipping hell

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02hz2kg

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In general, I'm an admirer of Mike. But on this occasion I cordially invite him to get to ****.

He really can be a daft *******.

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In The City released 40 years ago today.I may put some white tiles on my bathroom wall in their honour.

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Really? I thought it was 1977?

Sitting there on her ipad.The ******* that she is.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t9Iwj0DJO4

Quite frankly the rest can shove their raspberry beret up their *******s.

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Aw bless. We've all been spotty kids playing three chord nonsense in the garage, haven't we? :hehe:

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I raise you Scroobius doing Get Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F09tidE0vEU

You are of course correct.Can't count,me

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I raise you Scroobius doing Get Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F09tidE0vEU

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Why have they allowed a madman to take the microphone and shout into it?

This seems very strange to me.

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Aw bless. We've all been spotty kids playing three chord nonsense in the garage, haven't we? :hehe:

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This provocation is practically a declaration of war. :-(

I saw a show in the same residency. On the night I was there he pulled Elton John out of the stageside VIP tables for a couple of numbers together on the stage. Am I still allowed to mention Elton John being treated in this way, do you think?

Well... if we're looking for albums that are 40 yrs old this year, 76 was a seminal year for reggae

http://www.celebrategoodtimes.co.uk/?p=196

I guess there may have been a punk album or two around the same time....

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I saw a show in the same residency. On the night I was there he pulled Elton John out of the stageside VIP tables for a couple of numbers together on the stage. Am I still allowed to mention Elton John being treated in this way, do you think?

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As long as he only pulled him out and not 'off', I think you're fine.

The lad's become quite the podcaster

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Well... if we're looking for albums that are 40 yrs old this year, 76 was a seminal year for reggae

http://www.celebrategoodtimes.co.uk/?p=196

I guess there may have been a punk album or two around the same time....

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Reggae. :-( Life is simply too ****ing short imo.

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Reggae. :-( Life is simply too ****ing short imo.

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You might be right. After all, you need to have some time spare to paint your bedroom peach and black.

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The lad's become quite the podcaster

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Yes, I've heard a couple, but I've never been a fan of podcasts as a format. I like my info in text I can skim.

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You might be right. After all, you need to have some time spare to paint your bedroom peach and black.

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Look mate, you like UB40 - we get it. There's no need to bang on about it, though.

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Look mate, you like UB40 - we get it. There's no need to bang on about it, though.

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I'm not particularly enamoured of UB40, though some of their earlier stuff was ok.

Of course, if reggae for you is "UB40" then I can see why you might think life was too short for it.

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I'm not particularly enamoured of UB40, though some of their earlier stuff was ok.

Of course, if reggae for you is "UB40" then I can see why you might think life was too short for it.

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Their first album was great.Utter pants afterwards.

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I guess there may have been a punk album or two around the same time....

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First Ramones album was in 76. The Damned released the single New Rose in 76 but the first album in 77.

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First Ramones album was in 76. The Damned released the single New Rose in 76 but the first album in 77.

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Neil Sedaka's seminal 'Steppin' Out' was released in 1976.

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I'm not particularly enamoured of UB40, though some of their earlier stuff was ok.

Of course, if reggae for you is "UB40" then I can see why you might think life was too short for it.

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Look, these people couldn't even write basic English properly. 'Pirate ships they rob I'? What the **** is that supposed to mean?

In this situation, you may consider me John Cleese and Bob Marley Terry Jones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8

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Their first album was great.

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I used to record with the bloke that recorded that album, Bob Lamb, in a studio he set up with the money he made from it. We used to rehearse in his studio too, until Ocean Colour Scene (nee the Fanatics, of course) got their publishing deal and block booked the rehearsal room for six months, the feckers. But Bob let us rehearse in the main studio when he wasn't recording in it. OCS used to leave their fan mail lying around in the kitchen. :-|

The studio was in Highbury Road, Kings Heath. Highbury was a big house in Brum named after ... OUR Highbury in N5.

Bob worked with Duran Duran too.

http://duranduran.wikia.com/wiki/Bob_Lamb

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Neil Sedaka's seminal 'Steppin' Out' was released in 1976.

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And of course Rumours was recorded in 76 and released in 77.

And Malcolm MacDonald signed for Arsenal in 1976. :cloud9:

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I used to record with the bloke that recorded that album, Bob Lamb, in a studio he set up with the money he made from it. We used to rehearse in his studio too, until Ocean Colour Scene (nee the Fanatics, of course) got their publishing deal and block booked the rehearsal room for six months, the feckers. But Bob let us rehearse in the main studio when he wasn't recording in it. OCS used to leave their fan mail lying around in the kitchen. :-|

The studio was in Highbury Road, Kings Heath. Highbury was a big house in Brum named after ... OUR Highbury in N5.

Bob worked with Duran Duran too.

http://duranduran.wikia.com/wiki/Bob_Lamb

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Did you get to meet Stephen Duffy?

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Look, these people couldn't even write basic English properly. 'Pirate ships they rob I'? What the **** is that supposed to mean?

In this situation, you may consider me John Cleese and Bob Marley Terry Jones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8

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Well Redemption Song, of course, wasn't a reggae tune at all.

Besides that, if "writing basic English properly" is a criterion for your appreciation of music then I think you may well be missing out on a fairly large amount of good tunes.

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Well Redemption Song, of course, wasn't a reggae tune at all.

Besides that, if "writing basic English properly" is a criterion for your appreciation of music then I think you may well be missing out on a fairly large amount of good tunes.

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I'm going to give you credit and assume you deliberately used 'amount' rather than 'number' there, doc. :-\

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Besides that, if "writing basic English properly" is a criterion for your appreciation of music then I think you may well be missing out on a fairly large amount of good tunes.

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:nod: The voice is just another instrument. Having words that make any sense, have any meaning, never mind being grammatically sound is just a bonus.

:nod:

Though of course there's no excuse for The Cocteau Twins.

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No. I think the chap I knew was Andy Wickett. Until the time he was round the flat and foolishly started a fight with my streetfighting flatmate from West Brom and got his head seriously kicked in. Claret everywhere. Apart from the time he came round to apologise for that we didn't see him again. Saw him perform once or twice. Good looking fella and decent singer but not good looking enough, it seemed. Simon le Bon was considered better looking and poor Andy never got over it. It's why he did silly things like picking fights.

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20151029095228

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No. I think the chap I knew was Andy Wickett. Until the time he was round the flat and foolishly started a fight with my streetfighting flatmate from West Brom and got his head seriously kicked in. Claret everywhere. Apart from the time he came round to apologise for that we didn't see him again. Saw him perform once or twice. Good looking fella and decent singer but not good looking enough, it seemed. Simon le Bon was considered better looking and poor Andy never got over it. It's why he did silly things like picking fights.

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20151029095228

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Ha! Yes. Simon le Bon is indeed most appealing. Sweet, charming and engaging too.