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By
"Old Hippy"
Hey!
Let's rock! Okay!
There
was something slightly unreal about Tony Yeah, or whatever he said
his name was.
It
wasn't the opening shout as the lead singer of Ugly Rumours rushed
on stage, or the messianic gleam in his eyes as he strutted about
like he was Mike Yarwood doing Mick Jagger on LSD.
(editor's
note: Mike Yarwood was a television impressionist in the 70s. Michael
Jagger was a popular musical entertainer).
It
was more to do with the chat-up lines he was trying afterwards on
the floral-print-dress "babes" who fluttered around him
at the end of the gig.
"Me?"
he crooned. "Really I'm just an ordinary sort of guy."
No
you're not, dude. Not in those loon pants.
And
please, I can take the trumpet-sleeves and the high heels, but all
that bare flesh is like, too much, man.
"Just
call me Tony" looks the part, but then you remember he's really
just a poser from St John's College and the illusion fails.
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Jagger: role model for Ugly Rumours man Tony? |
You
can't fault the man's energy or his conviction. This guy really
thinks he is a rock star.
But
he clearly believes he deserves bigger things than a student band
in dreamy Oxford who turn up pushing their gear in a trolley.
The
rest of them look like the sort of group who turn Grateful Dead
album covers upside down and hold them up to the mirror to see if
there are hidden messages on them.
And
who was "Al babe", the straight guy lurking in the shadows
in a Spinners T-shirt, telling Tony what to say all the time?
In
retrospect, Ugly Rumours probably shouldn't have agreed to play
the Conservative Union tea-and-cucumber-sandwiches popular music
soiree.
"Tony
Bleah, more like," said one bemused onlooker, to snorts and
chortles from some chaps in tweed jackets by the bar.
The
Ugly Rumours? There's not much substance to them.
But
watch that lead singer. He may not be the next Jagger, but with
those staring eyes and that driving intensity, he's got a big career
ahead of him.
As
a vicar, or something.
If
you want to know what happened to the lead singer of Oxford's Ugly
Rumours, click here.
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