I think Lonnie is in the Sinitta school of ever changing age. Her bio states she was performing in the early 80s. I always felt she was older - not that that is a bad thing in any way. She was quite a presence and refreshing the sound at the start of the 90s should have produced more success had the single run not been royally f****d over.
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I think Lonnie is in the Sinitta school of ever changing age. Her bio states she was performing in the early 80s. I always felt she was older - not that that is a bad thing in any way. She was quite a presence and refreshing the sound at the start of the 90s should have produced more success had the single run not been royally f****d over.
I was getting into music at the same sort of time, and my dad was the same "it all sounds the same" as I pranced around with a T-shirt for a wig and a baggy one with a belt as a dress. It was super nostalgic watching the first episode and I shed a few tears. He passed away last week and I'm stuck on the other side of the world so can't be at his funeral on Thursday, so I think I'm going to have to watch episode 2 with a t-shirt on my head as a tribute to him.
D’oh! Well let’s just say she looks like she’s had a hard life.
So sorry for your loss.
Thank you.
Sorry for your loss - I hope your memories help at this time.
I know Big Fun are a mixed reception here, but this an ultimate Hit Factory bop and I forever love.
Where are they getting the 15 million sales for the Rick Astley album figure from? Just a cursory look at the certifications on the album's wikipedia page totals about 5-6 million in certs.
The video for Blame It On The Boogie is so naff and cheap. It makes Listen To Your Heart look like Thriller.
Source: Uncle Pete.
And the claim nobody British was selling those amounts was dubious. George Michael had just completed 2 years of promotion of Faith which I’m pretty sure would have outsold the Whenever You Need Somebody album (US peak #10) after 12 weeks at US #1.
I suspect they ‘mistakenly’ merged total world wide album and single sales for Rick. Easy mistake to make!
Whenever You Need Somebody, is a classic Hit Factory album.
Seeing Pete tearing up over Mel really got to me
Yes, quite an hard watch that. Think he was very close to Mel.
The Spice Girls fan accounts do that all the time! Silly them! Forever ain't sold 33 million copies!
Fact check time again: what week in chart history had the most SAW singles in the top 10 (not being snide, I'd genuinely like to know the answer) and what songs were they?
Yep - as I said earlier, definitely being creative chronologically like Sinitta. I mean, if you go by Sinitta's stage age from not too long ago, she was performing on the programme "The Tube" with that predator Leee John from Imagination when she was 13. As if.
I suspect it was sometime in early 89?
Wouldn't be surprsied if so. Know This Time I Know it's For Real, I'd Rather Jack and Help!, were all top 10 hits around the same time.