Subject: RE: Come On Eileen-Toora Loo Rye Aye
From: Ruth Archer - PM
Date: 21 Apr 08 - 12:58 PM

...Dexy's famously covered Van Morrison's song Jackie Wilson Said. When they performed the song on British TV show Top of the Pops, a researcher got it wrong. Instead of projecting an image of black American soul legend Jackie Wilson, they used a giant picture of sweaty Scottish darts player Jocky Wilson behind the band for the duration of the song. Which is very funny.

it was in fact very funny, but the "researcher getting it wrong" is unfortunately a longstanding urban myth, laid to rest many years later by Kevin Rowland himself, who admitted that he had specifically requested a picture of Jocky Wilson, as a kind of "in-joke".