Fame And Shame
- 16 Mar 07, 07:49 PM
Colin Murray should be serving a jail term for murder. In the past week, he΅―s killed a load of songs on Fame Academy. Much-loved works by The Undertones and Thin Lizzy. The best offerings of Neil Diamond and whoever wrote ΅®Unchained Melody΅―. The particular low points were ΅®Love And Marriage΅― plus those chronic squawk-fests with yer Tara Palmer woman.
And yet I still find him oddly admirable. They way he wept at the end of emotional lyrics. His ability to find soul in a Green Day song. His transparent flirting with Lesley Garrett and the Johnny Cash song that was so blatantly a plug for Liverpool FC.
Murray is still Ballybeen to the bone. His accent may have been smoothed out a bit, but he΅―s impudent and daft. Sure enough, he΅―s calculating at times, and he΅―s not blind to the chance of earning a dollar. But the child-like dimension still rules, and he΅―s found a livelihood that fits with his low boredom threshold and his instinct to play it to the gallery. Showbiz suits him.
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