Cat Stevens and Ronan keating duet

[mrs spinktrimpet]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3743196.stm

christmas number 1?

what will they sing? Ramadan-a-ding-dong? Jihad bells? Rudolph the head-less reindeer? the twelve days of 'Idul Adha?

[Purple Tentacle]

You missed a trick there. Ronan Keating is Irish, so you should have thrown in some hilarious references to the fact that he makes bombs and is always drunk.

[rjd2]

You missed a trick there. Ronan Keating is Irish, so you should have thrown in some hilarious references to the fact that he makes bombs and is always drunk.

i doubt they would have been amusing, I am still recovering from Frank Skinners crap unfunny references to Ireland with Ray Houghton

[Purple Tentacle]

You missed a trick there. Ronan Keating is Irish, so you should have thrown in some hilarious references to the fact that he makes bombs and is always drunk.

that is not a politically correct thing to say..etc...

No. It's satire.  Something you might want to write a thesis about.....

[rjd2]

I was being sarky over here if any references to Irelands past e.g. booze and terrorism are mentoined  the whole media goes mad e.g. Frank Skinner.

[another Mr. Lizard]

Even with Keating's selling power, I'm not sure that this will be a shoo-in for the Xmas number one. I've not heard that there are any plans along these lines, but if someone releases that Lynx ad version (which I've really grown to hate) of 'Over The Rainbow' I reckon it could do a 'Mad World' and pip Cat & Ronan.

Wasn't there also a proposal to put Beck's 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime' cover from 'Eternal Sunshine' out as an Xmas no.1 contender too?

[Garfield And Friends]

"Ronan Keating in Rushdie death fatwa song shocker!"

[Fuckwittio]

I'm Irish and Ronan Keating himself is an offensive joke.

[BetaKarraTene]

At secondary school we got shown a video biography of Cat Stevens and his conversion to Islam. Despite the lesson being Religious Studies even the teacher had a laugh at him. What I've heard of his music has been good though (although I undestand he got a bit stroppy about the Flaming Lips business).

Ronan Keating however, is one of my least favourite 'musicians' ever, and I can only wish an infinite number of not-nice things to the smarmy tosser.

[Gazeuse]

Cat Stevens is one of the best pop melodists ever.

Can you get a software programme which just removes one voice from a duet???

[alan strang]

Isn't the song going to be 'Father & Son' - with Yusuf playing the father and Ronan playing the son. Or was that just press speculation.

On the original, Cat Stevens played both parts, double-tracked. Always gives me goose-bumps, that. "Away... away... I have to make this decision... alone..."

Boyzone actually covered the song a few years back and totally ruined it (especially on the TOTP Christmas show where, right in the middle of the emotional bit, Ronan decided to address the camera and wish all their fans "a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year").

Yusuf Islam liked their version though, apparently.


Bloody Ronan Keating - he'll have the shirt off
your back before you know it...

[Ben Ordinary]

Boyzone actually covered the song a few years back and totally ruined it (especially on the TOTP Christmas show where, right in the middle of the emotional bit, Ronan decided to address the camera and wish all their fans "a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year").

God, Im glad someone else said that as I thought I'd imagined it. My Dad loves Boyzone and used to play them a lot when we had a pub. In my mind, it was to get people to leave but still every time it got to that bit (and indeed if I heard it now), in my head I'd be able to hear "Merry Crissmuss from Boyzone". What this says about me is quite another matter.

If the Beck thing is true then god bless us each and everyone.

[Almost Yearly]

Isn't the song going to be 'Father & Son' - with Yusuf playing the father and Ronan playing the son. Or was that just press speculation.

Yes. No. (Keating was on Johnny Walker t'other day. Says he's going to do more Country songs from now on. Joy.)

[Uncle_Z]

Last Yusufterview I heard he was mad keen on avoiding instruments of any kind since they are religiously wrong.  Or it might just have been about enjoying the purity of a capella... a mosqua.  Feh.