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[ImNotHades 206]

Don't worry. We Aussies unleashed Kylie Minogue onto the world....

Our has a porn video in case you are interested

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

 

Don't worry. We Aussies unleashed Kylie Minogue onto the world....

Our has a porn video in case you are interested

 

 

I am sure many people wish Kylie did as well!

[ImNotHades 206]

 

 

Don't worry. We Aussies unleashed Kylie Minogue onto the world....

Our has a porn video in case you are interested

 

:vomit: I am sure many people wish Kylie did!

 

The quiet ones are always the worst.

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

Back on topic, Queensland was so ultra- conservative in the 1970s that:

 

... there were a few Queenslanders who had moral objections to ABBA touring Queensland and were upset by Premier Bjelke-Petersen’s approval and endorsement of the band, as can be seen in the letters to the editor column published in the Courier-Mail on 18 October 1976.

 

“I was shocked and disgusted to read of our Premier’s support for the Swedish pop group, ABBA“, wrote “a concerned Christian mother of 5“.

 

She went on to say that she supported Joh’s “Christian stand against drugs, immortality and pornography” but that he must have been misled by the “Communistic press”. “These people with their indecent costumes.

 

 

Another letter-writer stated that it was distressing for him that the Government was courting ABBA, who were “products of a socialist country“.

Source: http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2013/04/18/abba-brisbane-concert/

[Ra Ra Rasputin 99]

 

No, not sarcasm. I don't know anything about Croatian pop but the whole German schlager world seems so clean cut and sickly sweet that I am sure there must be some hidden dark side to it all!

Those are rock bands that are pretty much old...trust me, you don't want to see or hear our pop stars.....but I have no clue on schlager stars....Heino maybe?

 

I suspect most of the German Schlager stars are more likely to make an appearance in the Curse Of Eurovision thread than anywhere else. Annoyingly or otherwise, I've never heard any salacious rumours about the likes of Katja Ebstein and Mary Roos. The only deathlist.net-gossipy-worthy name that springs to mind is Rex Gildo and he's already dead. Hossa!

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

 

 

No, not sarcasm. I don't know anything about Croatian pop but the whole German schlager world seems so clean cut and sickly sweet that I am sure there must be some hidden dark side to it all!

Those are rock bands that are pretty much old...trust me, you don't want to see or hear our pop stars.....but I have no clue on schlager stars....Heino maybe?

 

I suspect most of the German Schlager stars are more likely to make an appearance in the Curse Of Eurovision thread than anywhere else. Annoyingly or otherwise, I've never heard any salacious rumours about the likes of Katja Ebstein and Mary Roos. The only deathlist.net-gossipy-worthy name that springs to mind is Rex Gildo and he's already dead. Hossa!

 

Okay, so no coke snorting and wild orgies from Helene Fischer then!

[maryportfuncity 9,991]

 

 

Don't worry. We Aussies unleashed Kylie Minogue onto the world....

Our has a porn video in case you are interested

 

 

I am sure many people wish Kylie did as well!

 

 

 

I once heard a discussion of Kylie and Michael Hutchence having sex on a plane as she straddled him on a long haul flight and a senior Aussie politician - I think maybe Bob Hawke - was allegedly a witness to the whole thing

[Phantom 2,467]

I love ABBA.

 

How about GABBA

[Guest Droosy]

No, not sarcasm. I don't know anything about Croatian pop but the whole German schlager world seems so clean cut and sickly sweet that I am sure there must be some hidden dark side to it all!

German or Austrian schlager singers usually have rope-bound skeletons in their cellars

[Scraggy Taters 289]

 

_{(why is there no 'roll-eyes' smilie ?})

There is:

 

Oh, silly me. Thanks Davey.

[Scraggy Taters 289]

 

No, not sarcasm. I don't know anything about Croatian pop but the whole German schlager world seems so clean cut and sickly sweet that I am sure there must be some hidden dark side to it all!

German or Austrian schlager singers usually have rope-bound skeletons in their cellars

 

I didn't know Joseph Fritzel was a schlager singer ?

[Scraggy Taters 289]

 

I love ABBA.

 

How about GABBA

 

or "Shabba !!" Whatever happened to him ?

[CarolAnn 924]

 

 

I love ABBA.

 

How about GABBA

 

or "Shabba !!" Whatever happened to him ?

 

 

I see your GABBA and I'll raise you a Yo Gabba Gabba.

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

 

 

 

Don't worry. We Aussies unleashed Kylie Minogue onto the world....

Our has a porn video in case you are interested

 

 

I am sure many people wish Kylie did as well!

 

 

 

I once heard a discussion of Kylie and Michael Hutchence having sex on a plane as she straddled him on a long haul flight and a senior Aussie politician - I think maybe Bob Hawke - was allegedly a witness to the whole thing

 

Wouldn't surprise me as Kylie seems to have a predilection for such things. A year or two ago, a man who appeared on the Aussie version of Millionaire Hot Seat had this apparently true story to share:

 

During the 1980s, he was a guest star on Neighbours in which he played a teenage boy for a few episodes.

 

One day, he was in a dressing room preparing himself and Kylie waltzed in. She didn't see him and, with her back was to him, she promptly stripped stark naked. The lad didn't know what to do so he coughed loudly to discreetly alert her to his presence in the room.

 

Kylie laconically turned around to him, giving him a full frontal view, and said, "Oh, I don't mind you seeing me".

 

The game show host then asked the contestant how old he was when he copped his view of Kylie in all her glory and he said he was 14 at the time and the audience burst out laughing. You could see the dirty thoughts going through the game show host's head, wishing he had been that 14 year old boy.

[ImNotHades 206]

 

 

 

 

Don't worry. We Aussies unleashed Kylie Minogue onto the world....

Our has a porn video in case you are interested

 

 

I am sure many people wish Kylie did as well!

 

 

 

I once heard a discussion of Kylie and Michael Hutchence having sex on a plane as she straddled him on a long haul flight and a senior Aussie politician - I think maybe Bob Hawke - was allegedly a witness to the whole thing

 

Wouldn't surprise me as Kylie seems to have a predilection for such things. A year or two ago, a man who appeared on the Aussie version of Millionaire Hot Seat had this apparently true story to share:

 

During the 1980s, he was a guest star on Neighbours in which he played a teenage boy for a few episodes.

 

One day, he was in a dressing room preparing himself and Kylie waltzed in. She didn't see him and, with her back was to him, she promptly stripped stark naked. The lad didn't know what to do so he coughed loudly to discreetly alert her to his presence in the room.

 

Kylie laconically turned around to him, giving him a full frontal view, and said, "Oh, I don't mind you seeing me".

 

The game show host then asked the contestant how old he was when he copped his view of Kylie in all her glory and he said he was 14 at the time and the audience burst out laughing. You could see the dirty thoughts going through the game show host's head, wishing he had been that 14 year old boy.

 

If there was only something he could see.

[Scraggy Taters 289]

I must admit I don't have a single Abba song in my collection either, although I love 'The Day Before You Came'. I thought I did have that, but having just checked, it turns out to be the Blancmange cover.

Blancmange ? I bought my copy on the Saturday.

 

It was the day before I came. By Sunday, my 7 inch was covered in semen.

[Scraggy Taters 289]

 

 

 

I love ABBA.

 

How about GABBA

 

or "Shabba !!" Whatever happened to him ?

 

 

I see your GABBA and I'll raise you a Yo Gabba Gabba.

 

 

Nope, can't beat a Yo Gabba Gabba. Tony Gubba's my final offer. I'm out I'm afraid.

 

_{(Before anyone deviates here.. I'm not gay)}

[Toast 14,805]

 

I must admit I don't have a single Abba song in my collection either, although I love 'The Day Before You Came'. I thought I did have that, but having just checked, it turns out to be the Blancmange cover.

Blancmange ? I bought my copy on the Saturday.

 

It was the day before I came. By Sunday, my 7 inch was covered in semen.

 

 

[Rotten Ali 599]

I hate ABBA. But you can't have an ABBA thread without mention of Slim Borgudd...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim_Borgudd

[Handrejka 1,840]

 

 

I must admit I don't have a single Abba song in my collection either, although I love 'The Day Before You Came'. I thought I did have that, but having just checked, it turns out to be the Blancmange cover.

Blancmange ? I bought my copy on the Saturday.

 

It was the day before I came. By Sunday, my 7 inch was covered in semen.

 

 

 

 

He changes Marilyn French to Barbara Cartland. Sacrilege. It seems I've been misinterpreting that song all these years.

[Toast 14,805]

 

 

 

I must admit I don't have a single Abba song in my collection either, although I love 'The Day Before You Came'. I thought I did have that, but having just checked, it turns out to be the Blancmange cover.

 

He changes Marilyn French to Barbara Cartland. Sacrilege. It seems I've been misinterpreting that song all these years.

 

 

Yes, I don't know why they changed that. I must look into it.

 

Wiki also says "In a live version, (Neil) Arthur also sang "shame" instead of "aim", implying a complex sexual relation to come."

 

It is an ambiguous song, isn't it? I've always preferred to take it as optimistic, but it has a very melancholy tone and some would say a sense of impending doom.

[Scraggy Taters 289]

 

 

I must admit I don't have a single Abba song in my collection either, although I love 'The Day Before You Came'. I thought I did have that, but having just checked, it turns out to be the Blancmange cover.

Blancmange ? I bought my copy on the Saturday.

 

It was the day before I came. By Sunday, my 7 inch was covered in semen.

 

 

 

Oh you meant THAT Blancmange !!!

 

They had four top 20 UK hits in the first half of the 1980s.

As did ABBA.

[Cat O'Falk 3,287]

 

He changes Marilyn French to Barbara Cartland.

Yes, I don't know why they changed that. I must look into it.

In a couple of interviews Arthur says:

 

http://thequietus.com/articles/05684-blancmange-interview-blanc-burn

 

I have been asked before why we changed Marilyn French to Barbara Cartland. But the fact that anyone would even have to ask why is hilarious.

http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Article/6601/Blancmange-Interview

 

Because we thought it was quite funny. It was adding to the sense of the ridiculous. It was laying it on with a trowel.

[Toast 14,805]

Cat's second link makes it a bit clearer

 

NA: The reason why we recorded it was that it was their least successful song, and also one of our favourites. I also loved the idea of me, a great big lanky Northerner, singing these lyrics which were obviously not written for a bloke, and Stephen did as well. We were in love with ABBA.

PB: In light of that and the fact that you said these lyrics were not written for a bloke, why did you change ABBA’s line, “I must have read a while/The latest one by Marilyn French or something in that style” to “The latest one by Barbara Cartland”?

NA: Because we thought it was quite funny. It was adding to the sense of the ridiculous. It was laying it on with a trowel.

 

[Toast 14,805]

 

In a couple of interviews Arthur says:

 

http://thequietus.com/articles/05684-blancmange-interview-blanc-burn

 

I have been asked before why we changed Marilyn French to Barbara Cartland. But the fact that anyone would even have to ask why is hilarious.

http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/MagSitePages/Article/6601/Blancmange-Interview

 

Because we thought it was quite funny. It was adding to the sense of the ridiculous. It was laying it on with a trowel.

 

 

Thanks, Cat.

This bit amused me too:

 

Does anyone know what Blancmange is now? I mean, can you even still buy it?

SL: You can. In fact someone was making one on the telly the other night. It was on Come Dine With Me. This silly woman was making an edible pair of tits for a theme party. They were made from pink blancmange with two grapes as the nipples.