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Rich wrote: He actually had three top forty hits in 1996, god knows how, one even made top ten for a week. I wonder if he's another on the banned list of no shows for that show on BBC4 recently. It's not long since they were broadcasting the weekly ones from then.
It really is embarrassing to see this now. Truly dreadful shameless crap, there are better random karaoke pub singers. Just because he had a very young boyish cute face someone thought they could make him a pop star. I'm sure the younger Alford had the looks that might have attracted the seedier side of the industry.
When I read about his latest conviction yesterday and the way he had pleaded his innocence about touching anyone as the verdict came it was written in a way that left me thinking he might have been done an injustice this time. Do genuinely guilty people often desperately plead their innocence as the guilty verdict hits them? Most just accept it don't they? Although he is a former actor so who knows. The jury heard the evidence and convicted him, I didn't. We do seem to like to pretend that all juries are foolproof though don't we, because to accept they are not is actually quite a disturbing thought, that they would exonerate the guilty or convict the innocent.
Yet another child in the entertainment industry (I deliberately avoid saying "star") who became a troubled aimless adult.
Yes i got the impression from the way he pleaded his innocence too.
robbiex
I don't think he would have made millions on those songs, more like 1000s. They were all cover versions, so he would just give a performance credit on them, and they weren't massive hits.
The case just seems like a "He said - She Said case" where the jury sided on the side of the young girls, and now this mans's life is over.
Green Man
Rich wrote: He actually had three top forty hits in 1996, god knows how, one even made top ten for a week. I wonder if he's another on the banned list of no shows for that show on BBC4 recently. It's not long since they were broadcasting the weekly ones from then.
It really is embarrassing to see this now. Truly dreadful shameless crap, there are better random karaoke pub singers. Just because he had a very young boyish cute face someone thought they could make him a pop star. I'm sure the younger Alford had the looks that might have attracted the seedier side of the industry.
When I read about his latest conviction yesterday and the way he had pleaded his innocence about touching anyone as the verdict came it was written in a way that left me thinking he might have been done an injustice this time. Do genuinely guilty people often desperately plead their innocence as the guilty verdict hits them? Most just accept it don't they? Although he is a former actor so who knows. The jury heard the evidence and convicted him, I didn't. We do seem to like to pretend that all juries are foolproof though don't we, because to accept they are not is actually quite a disturbing thought, that they would exonerate the guilty or convict the innocent.
Yet another child in the entertainment industry (I deliberately avoid saying "star") who became a troubled aimless adult.
In the 1970s and 1980s a lot of TV stars released singles and John Inman released an LP, in the 1990s the trend started again. Handy Andy released If I had a Hammer, which flopped.
I wish there were recordings of Fine China, Before Fina China, there was Opal Butterfly, Barrymore did the keys.
Lester Pidgeon
Rich wrote: Yet another child in the entertainment industry who became a troubled aimless adult
Name one industry/occupation/career that hasn't seen the same levels of fallout! From religion to the law - and politics/sport.
The imbalance of wealth though is more worrying - with trillionaires taking over the world, whilst millions starve.
Some of these rich people run countries, religions, international business, mineral delivery etc. - with little controls.
Rich
He actually had three top forty hits in 1996, god knows how, one even made top ten for a week. I wonder if he's another on the banned list of no shows for that show on BBC4 recently. It's not long since they were broadcasting the weekly ones from then.
It really is embarrassing to see this now. Truly dreadful shameless crap, there are better random karaoke pub singers. Just because he had a very young boyish cute face someone thought they could make him a pop star. I'm sure the younger Alford had the looks that might have attracted the seedier side of the industry.
When I read about his latest conviction yesterday and the way he had pleaded his innocence about touching anyone as the verdict came it was written in a way that left me thinking he might have been done an injustice this time. Do genuinely guilty people often desperately plead their innocence as the guilty verdict hits them? Most just accept it don't they? Although he is a former actor so who knows. The jury heard the evidence and convicted him, I didn't. We do seem to like to pretend that all juries are foolproof though don't we, because to accept they are not is actually quite a disturbing thought, that they would exonerate the guilty or convict the innocent.
Yet another child in the entertainment industry (I deliberately avoid saying "star") who became a troubled aimless adult.
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