Uptown girl (Billy Joel-cover version)

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Billy Joel Visits. 11/16/10. 7:55am". Howard Stern archive. Marksfriggin.com. November 16, 2010. Archived from the original on May 28, 2012 . Retrieved March 15, 2012. On record, Westlife’s take cuts out a lot of Joel’s emotional nuance – the delicious tension between brag and daydream, the way Joel is fronting for the lads, but also thinking, what if…? In Westlife’s version, the boys are the lads, and the song is staged as a round, with different members stepping up for a verse. “Uptown Girl” becomes more of a romp – no butchery, as it always had rompish elements – and to seal that impression it’s all iced and cherried with a patented Westlife key change. This jolly atmosphere matches its video, though the emphasis on poor virtue’s triumph over rich vice has the sad side-effect of treating Claudia Schiffer as a prize. But it’s not like that wasn’t part of the original’s appeal. Uptown Girl is the first of seven cover versions to get to number one in the UK this year. No less than four were covers of previous UK number ones (albeit one that had only got there as a cover very recently). A further two had reached the runner up slot in its original version (forty years ago in one case, to be entirely fair) leaving only one that hadn’t been a sizeable hit in the UK previously. Another recent UK chart topper returned as a cover with rewritten lyrics to arguably give an eighth.

Comic Relief to stop using images of starving children in Africa for Red Nose Day". inews.co.uk. 28 October 2020 . Retrieved 29 October 2020. Red Nose Day 2005". Comic Relief. Archived from the original on 18 November 2019 . Retrieved 18 July 2019.A small plastic nose with a smiley face and colourful koosh-like elastic hair, for attaching to the driver's rear-view mirror. Brooke from Sedona, AzShe married one of the survivor's of the crash, really really regretted it.. and got a divorce from that guy right after she gave birth to her son that she had with him.

In 2009, the comedy release took prominence over the single release by a mainstream recording artist. Gavin & Stacey's Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon covered "Islands in The Stream" for the event, with this being released on the week of Comic Relief. The Saturdays had released their record a week earlier. Dream – He Luvs U Not: WONDERFUL and criminally underrated blast of spiky girl-pop. Did better in America, but they never really took off. The GRL of 2001 perhaps? (Minus the tragedy).

BBC Studioworks to provide full studio and post production services to Comic Relief Appeal Night". BBC Studioworks. 15 March 2019 . Retrieved 31 October 2020. Ken from Louisville, KyBilly Joel has not performed this or any other "Innocent Man" song in concert since the early 1990's since he beleieves that these were all novelty songs that don't reflect the type of songs he wants to be remembered for.