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Thread #47015 Message #699272
Posted By: Kenny B (inactive)
26-Apr-02 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Albania - Crime Against Humanity
Subject: Albania - Crime Against Humanity
I heard the track on BBC Radio 2 "Steve Wright in the Afternoon" of "Big in Albania" I thought the track was awful, or words to that effect. Why should the people of Albania be subjected to such of treatment? I think it's criminal, hence the thread title*BG* Would any Mudcatter stoop to such behaviour
See backdround below THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) March 01, 2002, Friday Pg. 28 Trio set their sights on being big in Albania Edited by Charlie Methven The people of Albania will this weekend witness a remarkable musical collaboration. At the age of 87, Sir Norman Wisdom - the country's biggest film star - is launching a new career in pop. His debut track co-stars the writer and comedian Tony Hawkes and lyricist Sir Tim Rice. The project is the result of an eccentric wager between Hawkes, who, in 1988, tasted chart success with the distinctly forgettable hit Stutter Rap, and Pop Idol impresario Simon Cowell. "Tony was interviewing me," says Cowell, "and he mentioned that he'd once had a hit with that awful song. He sang a few lines to see what I thought and I told him that he had no chance, whatsoever, of having another hit, anywhere. He's too old, he doesn't look the part, and he can't sing. We ended up making a bet that if he gets a Top 10 hit again, I will have to eat something disgusting - I can't remember exactly what." Hawkes swiftly recruited Wisdom - whose films were among the few allowed to be shown under Albania's former communist regime - and persuaded Rice to write a track for the project. The three men yesterday flew to Tirana, accompanied by Rice's daughter Eva on backing vocals, to launch the single, "Big in Albania."