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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 09:20 AM
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Blair: I wore massive flares and sang Honky Tonk Woman

By Joe Murphy, Evening Standard
3 March 2005

The Prime Minister has always been coy about his early career in rock and roll - and today we found out why.

Tony Blair has confessed to serious style crimes in his days as front-man for a student pop band, not least how he shamelessly mimicked Mick Jagger on stage.

Mr Blair admitted strutting through renditions of the Rolling Stones' Honky Tonk Woman, one hand on hip and wagging his finger in the Jagger mode. He dressed in "massive flares", exposing four inches of bare midriff under a cropped, hoop-necked T-shirt.

And although the venues were only village halls and university colleges, he treated every gig as if it was Wembley Stadium, once bellowing: "Well awright Corpus Christi Alternative College Ball, we are the Ugly Rumours!"
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/17012071?source=Evening%20Standard

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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 09:27 AM
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1. Oh, please, won't someone dig out some video of this?
Edited on Thu Mar-03-05 09:27 AM by Fridays Child
There must be some video out there, somewhere.
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:03 AM
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2. Dammit, the song is "Honky Tonk WOMEN."
Has been since 1969. Listen to the fucking recording. Look at the title on the record/tape/CD/whatever packaging.

It's "Honky Tonk Women." Dumbasses.

:argh:
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Gyre Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:39 AM
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3. America and Britain are effed.
A chimp and a dork are never going to repair the west's reputation or credibility. They're only good at destroying it. National embarassments.

Gyre
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