30 years on after the overtly rotund Elvis Presley wobbled his way through the Pearly Gates and the buying public have instantly slipped a greatest hits album into the number one slot ahead of Kate Nash and her London voiced prose.
What an astounding thought.! To have been so famous that even three decades after you succumb to deep fried heaven your fans are still so loyal as to get you to the top of the tree as easily as that. So what about the stars of today.? In thirty years time will Amy Winehouse be looked back on as fondly.? Will Westlife be doddering around Ireland on a come back tour.? Well in the latter case I certainly hope not… but think about the aging rockers that ARE still on the road. The Rolling Stones and The Who are both prime examples of two massively successful (and deservedly so in my opinion) bands who both still have the fire in their hearts to continue to perform live in front of enormous crowds.!
Then again you do have the flip side. The two guys that performed with Bucks Fizz are still on the road as well (or were up until very recently), even to the point of reforming Bucks Fizz, albeit with two young bimbos obviously desperate for stardom, a few years ago. Their glory was short lived as it was, people may still remember them but there is a massive world of difference between resurrecting a classic group from the 1960’s who had repeated massive hits and restarting a small but only mildly successful Eurovision winning group from the early 1980s.
Whether I will still be dancing around Hobbits in 30 years time, pushing Hwang in a wheelchair (not through inability to walk, just because of the large amount of drink inside him) both of us devoid of hair, like Lou and Andy from Little Britain, remains to be seen.
First Great Western did get back to me in the end. Sadly they gave me the usual spray about “the upgraded carriages being specially designed following question to the public and needing to increase capacity”. Oh and they ignored my question about why they cannot run higher capacity trains on the Bristol to Weston services. Cunts.