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Topic History of: Man of the Year
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Indie Drone |
From the Independent, October 24, 1997:
"The Independent reveals the most damaging link yet to hit the Blair government. It will severely dent the Prime Minister's credibility in trying to relaunch the nation as 'cool Britannia'. Ian Burrell reveals that Tony Blair is a secret fan of Jonathan King, the man who brought the world 'Una Paloma Blanca'.
"... Mr Blair gushes: 'You [King] have made an important contribution to one of this country's great success stories and this award [BPI Man of the Year] is very well deserved.'
"...Told that he was to receive a message from the Prime Minister, King was clearly surprised.
"'If he says: 'I have smashed up my copy of Una Paloma Blanca and you are a man of no talent and even less charisma', then I would think:'Thank heavens we have someone who speaks his mind'," said the pundit."If he says: 'We consider you to be a great ambassador for the industry', then I shall be sneaking off to the toilets to be sick." |
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JK2006 |
It was a silly post that a boardkeeper asked me to check and I edited it radically.
It was in 1997 for winning Eurovision for the UK with Katrina and the Waves.
I'm not one of those "oh it's so lovely to be honoured by my peers" types.
It's achieving things - like winning Eurovision - that matter to me. It's nice when people give you credit at the time but I have so many other things to do that I get on to the next challenge.
People who dwell on past triumphs are as sad as those who dwell on past tragedies.
Move on. Get more successes.
As I do the VidBlogs I realise more and more how little the past means and how important the present and future are. |
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Inquisitive |
there was a post about you being man of the year some time ago.
i watch all your vid blogs on grouper but havent seen any mention of it.
what was it for and when? |
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