Scots Taffer on 7/1/2011 at 13:54
If we're now commemorating the death of one-hit wonders, I eagerly await the thread for the creative force behind Chumbawumba's Tubthumping kicking the bucket.
PigLick on 7/1/2011 at 15:26
The thing is, Bakers street is a hell of a song, there aint no doubt.
Stitch on 7/1/2011 at 16:13
I got my crack in, but seriously: why is this thread even controversial? Fingernail should have included information in the original post about who actually died, true, but so what? It isn't like this guy was a nobody, and his death was covered on most of the prominent news sites.
RIP, man
Fingernail on 7/1/2011 at 16:38
It wasn't controversial as such, a couple of people who didn't know him got in early, a couple more who didn't have him on their radar. Perhaps I call him to mind more often than most as Baker Street tube station (and the street itself) has been my main destination for the last 4 years, and it's been many a time that just going through there has brought that sax riff into my head. I can even remember a couple of times when I've pretty much rushed home from there to listen to it. Yeah, I don't have/use an mp3 player.
He was pretty far from being classed as a one-hit wonder since he had a number one album in the US (two top 40, that's one Platinum and one Gold), two top ten albums in the UK and another two top 40, and that's just as a solo artist. Before that he had a folk group with Billy Connolly before he started doing comedy, and the aforementioned Stuck in the Middle was with the band Stealers Wheel.
Probably his personal problems prevented him from staging a renaissance of interest as other artists sometimes have once they hit middle age, and doubtless his career flagged since the late 80s because of his alcoholism, disenchantment with the industry and lack of live performances.
Yeah, he was certainly no revolutionary, but it's kind of a sad story.
st.patrick on 7/1/2011 at 17:18
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
If we're now commemorating the death of one-hit wonders, I eagerly await the thread for the creative force behind Chumbawumba's Tubthumping kicking the bucket.
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Scots Taffer on 7/1/2011 at 22:02
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
If we're now commemorating the death of one-hit wonders, I eagerly await the thread for the creative force behind Chumbawumba's Tubthumping kicking the bucket.
Just in case this wasn't clear, the above was 100% intended as a joke.
jstnomega on 13/1/2011 at 23:58
Quote Posted by Kolya
...welcome to Celebrity-Death-Chat. Pick a celebrity. (Preferably an old one.)
Definitely OT but the whole thread is kind of skewed anyway.
best personal ad I've yet encountered, this w/in days of the celeb's death:
Natalie Wood look alike but can float :D
Nuth on 14/1/2011 at 00:52
I had an 8-track of City to City but it died decades ago. The only song other than Baker Street that I can remember from it is Right Down the Line.
Adam Nuhfer on 14/1/2011 at 16:29
Quote Posted by Fingernail
I'm still waiting for backup from the silent hordes of TTLG's Gerry Rafferty fans...
While setting at my work station soldering up electrical/electronic components back in the
DAY I got to listen to this song over and over again on the Radio [ piped in for work moral/indoctrination purposes/productivity from the front office].
That day was a several decades back. I quit and moved onto another job after 15 months with them. RIP
