yes its a strange business all right.

what do you make of these people who go on these pop star programmes who want to be singers, get dressed up like pop singers, weep openly when the man says you'll never make it as a singer.......and theres such a lot of them.

I think thats part of the answer. Voices are so processed on records these days that people are actually confused as to what singing consists of.

They open their mouth and make an approximation of the sighing and whimpering that many pop records sound like - of course without all the reverb, harmonisation, quantising, compression it sounds shit - result amazement because in their minds they sounded like the record.

I think maybe the non-singers think , well at least I'm not as mad as those saddos.

all the best

big al whittle - singer and fantasist