Can’t Get You Out of My Head | With Just A Hint Of Mayhem

“And the only things I see are emptiness and loneliness and an unlit Christmas tree” Blog Advent Calendar Day 13 December 13, 2014

Filed under: Christmas,Trivia — justwilliam1959 @ 1:08 am
Tags: Advent Calendar, Bill Withers, Buddy Holly, Can't Get You Out of My Head, Christmas, Crazy, Dance Yourself Dizzy, Dave Mount, Dynamite, Ellie Hope, Groovejet (If This Ain't Love), Kylie Minogue, L L Lucy, Lean On Me, Les Gray, Liquid Gold, Lonely This Christmas, Moonshine Sally, Mud, Oh Boy, Ray Stiles, Rob Davis, Rocket, Shake It Down, Show Me You're A Woman, The Cat Crept In, The Secrets That You Keep, Tiger Feet

Are you excited yet? You must be right? There are only 12 more big sleeps to the big day. Have you bought all your presents? What did you get for me? I hope that it was something expensive. Anyway it’s December 13th a.k.a Day 13 a.k.a the letter ‘M’ of this years advent blog post. Regular readers will know that this year it is the ABC of British bands. If you’re not a regular reader please feel free to waste an hour catching up on the letters ‘A’ to ‘L’.

In the meantime though let’s get back to todays band; it’s Mud. That’s neat, that’s neat, that’s neat, that’s neat isn’t it? Although the band formed in 1966 they didn’t have their first chart hit until 1973 with “Crazy”. That kicked off a run of UK 10 UK top 20 hits lasting up until 1975. This included three UK number one hits; “Tiger Feet“, “Lonely This Christmas” and a cover of Buddy Holly’s “Oh Boy”. Ellie Hope off of Liquid Gold who had a big hit with “Dance Yourself Dizzy” in 1980 sang backing vocals on Mud’s version of “Oh Boy”.

Band members were Rob Davis (guitar), Ray Stiles (bass), Dave Mount (drums) and Les Gray on vocals. Sadly Les and Dave are no longer with us having passed away in 2004 and 2006 respectively. The last time the four of them played together was at Dave Mount’s wedding in 1990. Rob Davis has had a lot of success as a songwriter in recent years co-writing hits for Kylie Minogue (“Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”) and Spiller (“Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)”) among others. But enough of the recent activity, take yourself back to the 70s and enjoy some Mud classics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSuA_km4-bE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeI3TlAqius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw4cFWJz90I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4T5Gy6MVEI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRiYZCBsjI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LBwithv6K8

“Boy, its more than I dare to think about” December 31, 2011

Filed under: News — justwilliam1959 @ 11:14 pm
Tags: 2000s (decade), Angels, Britney Spears, Can't Get You Out of My Head, Jamelia, Just A Little, Kylie Minogue, Liberty X, PRS, Robbie Williams, S Club 7, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Superstar, Toxic

I thought that you might wish to know that the list of the UK’s most played songs of the noughties has been published. I assume that it covers 2001 to 2010 which makes me wonder why it took so long to compile, probably because the PRS had to chase many places for royalties. Anyway the top 5 is;

1. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (2001)

2. Britney Spears – Toxic (2004)

3. Robbie Williams – Angels (1997)

4. Jamelia – Superstar (2003)

5. Liberty X – Just A Little (2002)

Between them the five songs were played 875 million times. I like all the songs apart from “Angels” which is one of my least favourite songs of all time. But whatever happened to Jamelia and Liberty X? Apparently “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” was initially offered to S Club 7 and Sophie Ellis-Bextor who both turned it down. I reckon they’re kicking themselves now, what do you think?