The band's biggest-selling 45 was I'm in Love With the Girl On the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk – retitled I'm in Love With the Girl On a Certain Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk, after complaints from the Virgin boss Richard Branson – which reached No 54 in February 1981. It was a typically playful offering, entirely in keeping with Sievey's wilful sense of the absurd. Other songs included I Can't Get Bouncing Babies By the Teardrop Explodes and If You Really Love Me, Buy Me a Shirt.
Showing posts with label frank sidebottom. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010
…a certain manchester megastore
Frank Sidebottom, who died a couple of days ago, also ran The Freshies. This was their biggest success:
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
The world's gone bobbins
Farewell, Frank Sidebottom.
If you don't know who he is, how to explain?
A grown man wearing a papier-maché head and allowing us an insight into a weird and wonderful mentality, for comedy purposes. Chris Sievey was in various bands and music was the core of his act: faux-naive songs for children or about Altrincham FC and Timperley, where he lived. He died yesterday at 54, following surgery for a tumour.
If you don't know who he is, how to explain?
A grown man wearing a papier-maché head and allowing us an insight into a weird and wonderful mentality, for comedy purposes. Chris Sievey was in various bands and music was the core of his act: faux-naive songs for children or about Altrincham FC and Timperley, where he lived. He died yesterday at 54, following surgery for a tumour.
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