Xmas no 1 : Ozzy?

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Bookmakers have slashed the odds of Ozzy Osbourne reaching Christmas number one following the star’s accident.
An outpouring of public sympathy for the crooked rock God – currently on a ventilator in a Slough hospital – has led William Hill to cut their odds from 50-1 to 16-1. They say they have been inundated with a "sudden flood of money" from punters backing ‘Changes’, the Black Sabbath track Ozzy has re-recorded with daughter Kelly.

However, the 12 Pop Idol finalists are still 1-3 favourites with their version of John Lennon’s ’Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’.The Darkness remain a 3/1 bet.

Umm, is there a flood of people actually buying it tho?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Number one in the midweeks.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

let's hope he keeps the sodding Darkness off number one

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Dom. Really?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i would take 'Bells End' over this dross i think. i don't mind Ozzy's voice much tho, Kelly annoys me more

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the crooked rock God ???
is he talking about his posture?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Mark. Could be the biggest shock number one of the year. Only just ahead of Will, though, so it depends on what goes on with the Saturday sales.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pulling for the Fast Food Rockers.

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Jingle Burgers?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"I love christmas" out 15 December.... preorder NOW!

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, what Darkness track is on the charts? PLEASE PLEASE OH GOD PLEASE TELL ME that they did a christmas song!

― Kingfish Beefstick (Kingfish), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

err, yes?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

with kids

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)", out on the 15th.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

back to your cave Kingfish

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

don't buy it, please

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

but they are making glam-rock *FUN* again aren't they, goblesm.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i was sick of those 'bedwetter' glam rockers

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Cave, nuthin'. We don't hear about some of these things over here. Hell, the damn Darkness album just got released a coupla weeks ago(& finally reviewed by the Onion).

― Kingfish Beefstick (Kingfish), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The Darkness album has been out in America for a couple of months now!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

not around here...

― Kingfish Beefstick (Kingfish), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Clearly you don't live in America.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Cave, Arkansas

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

wipe your feet before you visit.

― Kingfish Beefstick (Kingfish), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The Darkness Xmas video is awesome. It has singing robots and a chick that looks mysteriously like Shannen Dohetery. And the Hawkins brothers play a double guitar.... together! It's excellent!

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000111T7G.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

they are really plagued by that space octopus....

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the many things I like about the Darkness is that they obviously have some mate who draws their awful singles sleeves: a touching display of loyalty from the newly famous.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

'it's just pop quoting itself' - Peter Saville on The Darkness cover artwork

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, and....

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000W3Z4Q.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000W3Z4G.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

also out on 15 December!

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, that Darkness single sleeve should have been the cover of the album.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

what, you don't like the NAKED LADY LANDING THE SPACESHIP?!?

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

where else does one see the space octopus?

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

1980s Japanese arcade shoot 'em ups

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

1990s japanese anime

― Kingfish Beefstick (Kingfish), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, on record covers.

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone clarify something for me? As soon as I heard the title of the Darkness's Christmas single, I thought: "Ha ha - bell end joke." But I've not heard anyone mention this. Is it just because it's so obvious?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 December 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

if it is a bell end joke, it's just not very funny, which is why it hasn't been mentioned.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 18 December 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

But people are always mentioning unfunny things! Anyway, the humour in it surely derives not from clever wordplay, but from it being the kind of thing a gang of teenage boys would do ("ha ha - we got them to say 'bell end' on the radio, nearly"), rather than a group of grown men.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 18 December 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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