Who should go on Second Chance Idol?

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This is apparently the next phase in the media pantechnicon that is "Pop Idol" where pop stars with a suspiciously long gap separating now from their last appearance in the Guinness Book of Hit Singles get a second chance of a career.

In Britain, I have heard names like Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones and Chesney Hawkes being bandied about - not to mention Renato out of Renee and Renato, who once sang at my cousin's wedding! - and in the US I hear of Tiffany and Debbie Gibson being tipped as possible contestants.

So, who should be on this frankly humiliating/enormously philanthropic and anti-ageist (delete where appropriate) idea of a programme, and who should win?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

The farm!

― K Nearly, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Northern Uproar

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Rick Astley!

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 11:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimmy Ray

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Rick Astley!

Didn't he moan about being famous first time round?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Good point. How about Bros, then?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

But Luke Goss is a HUGE movie star now so probably wouldn't be interested.

― Emma, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

SLY FOX.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

john leslie.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Personally, I'd like to see the format changed to something like 'You're shite and you know you are'.

Contestants then compete to prove they are not shite.

The great thing about this programme is that there would be no winners and they all get declared shite. We are then spared all the slaughtered cover versions, and programmes featuring the 'tortured' lives of these Z-list 'celebrities'. The newspapers would go back to reporting on something novel called 'news' and we could look forward to listening to musicians on the radio and TV that write their own songs, play their own instruments and have that magic ingredient - talent.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)

CJ I like you, but that last sentence of yours veers dangerously close to the dreaded demon we know as Derek Dull.

mark s will tell you all about him if you ask him nicely.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

surely it's time for a colonel abrams renaissance.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

and we could look forward to listening to musicians on the radio and TV that write their own songs, play their own instruments and have that magic ingredient - talent.

Sigh. I remember having this argument 6 years ago on ama.

― RickyT (RickyT), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

yep - the Colonel could defeat Rick Astley as a punishment for stealing all his vocal mannerisms and making them sound shit ("Trapped" is wonderful, "Never Gonna Give You Up" attempts to disembowel it, but can't detract from Abrams' magnificence).

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Tiffany is doing quite well thankyouverymuch.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like to see Roy Wood back on TV.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

It would have to be Gary Barlow! I'd love it if he made a comeback as some sortof rock God!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

This show is destined to be incomplete because SYLVESTER is no longer alive.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Lieutenant Pigeon.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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