Agreed on all counts Peter. Love the idea of this pasty faced, skinny, twentysomething, white guy from England – whose entire shtick, up to this point, had been to dress up as this kind of alien transsexual character – suddenly deciding that he’s a soul singer, hiring a soul band, going on national television in the States and not only pulling it off, but being fucking amazing at it.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:57 am
Luther Vandross on backing vox
April 30th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Don’t you just love that “Break down and cryyy” bit…and the “Day in the Life” reference, and just the overall disco coked-out funkiness of it.
Superb song. The album’s a bit dodge in comparison though.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Agreed on all counts Peter. Love the idea of this pasty faced, skinny, twentysomething, white guy from England – whose entire shtick, up to this point, had been to dress up as this kind of alien transsexual character – suddenly deciding that he’s a soul singer, hiring a soul band, going on national television in the States and not only pulling it off, but being fucking amazing at it.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
And no sooner had his audience caught its breath and readjusted, he’d moved to Berlin and the Philly soul was out.