Thursday, September 15, 2011

Not has been

A casual aside in The Times the other day – ‘No politician could admit to liking Katie Melua’ left me bemused. Why ever not? Not all voters are imopressed by his fondness for The Killers.

The answer came in a ruefully witty third leader yesterday, which commented on the startling fact that Doris Day has, at 87, become the oldest artist to have an album of new work in the Top Ten:
‘Maybe music, just as much as youth, is wasted on the young.’
And I’ll bet that, had she been invited, she would have appeared on Phil Williams music segment on Radio 5 at 11.30 on Monday morning, unlike London rapper/vocalist Example whose album was No 1 on the list, but who failed to show. Probably been celebrating hard, they said.

Charles Aznavour, also 87, has a new album out too