Reminded yet again by the ever-reliable Timehop, I’ve picked up this post from two years ago today. Judging by the very low viewing figures I think it safe to assume that current regular readers won’t have seen this before, so I thought I’d share it again and hope that it brightens your day.
A couple of explanations may help: in 2014 and 2015 I took part in National Blog Posting Month, or #NaBloPoMo for short. This required that participants posted every day during November. You’ll know I’m not usually that prolific, so you will see signs of stretching it a bit! The reference to terrorists and a day’s delay at the start of the post are to the Paris attacks, which claimed 130 lives. I usually shared a few videos for the weekend posts, but took time out from that to show my respect for those who had been murdered by terrorists. If you want to see that post, you can find it here
There’s a little bonus in the piece: click on the link and you’ll be transported back to my previous weekend’s post which contains a brilliant cover version of Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off. A kind of BOGOF offer for you – my generosity knows no bounds 😂
Having postponed doing this yesterday, I’ve decided to return to my usual weekend-style posts of videos to, hopefully, entertain you. Anything else would, in my view, be letting the terrorists win. So, on with the show.
Last weekend I posted about cover songs and today I’m taking that thought a step further: parodies. Some rock and pop stars are so far up themselves that they deserve to be parodied. Others don’t, but that doesn’t stop it happening to them. As a kid growing up in the sixties my first introduction to parody songs was a group called the Barron Knights, who had a string of hits with medleys of alternative versions of current pop songs, reworked in their own ‘inimitable’ style. To be fair, their impressions were often very accurate, but they seem very dated nowadays, as this typical example shows:
Of course, it helps if you recognise the bands…
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