Certainly does - screeching bitches with no talent and "songs" with no melody that are instantly forgettable - and thank goodness for that. None of them will still be topping the charts when they're in their 90s - if they live that long - and my only regret is that I shan't be around to prove my point but I bet I'm right. Let's hear it for all the great singers who are still entertaining us as they have done for decades with their staying power - Dame Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark (who should have been made a Dame years ago), for instance. Any more?
I saw Dame Vera when she was plain Vera then back in the black and white t.v. days of the 1960s when she was on a show and sang Herman's Hermits' "There's A Kind of Hush" (also done by the Carpenters in the 70s) and she was bloody brilliant. She moved with the times, didn't just stay huddled around The White Cliffs of Dover and in the 70s when we had gone into colour, she was on another show and sang ABBA's "Thank You For The Music" and, of course, had the audience clapping like thunder in applause afterwards. A GREAT singer but an even GREATER lady, she could certainly teach some of today's screechers - I hesitate to call them singers - a thing or too about humility
Petula Clark will be visiting Oz in the next month or so and performing in Melbourne.
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