Juxtapositions: e.g. Has anyone else met the Queen AND wally Nightingale?

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(him of Sex Pistols pre-infamy)?

Otherwise, add two names (famous or semi famous, give us all a chance) you think might be a unique connection...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 May 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

do they have to be at the same time?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 6 May 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Umm, no. Unless the Queen was at the Sex Pistols convention and I missed her. Unless you want to play that game as well, in which case, John Peel and Wally Nightingale.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 May 2004 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe the queen IS Wally Nightingale, have you seen them in the same room?

Hijinks will ensue.

― Nellie (nellskies), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, but Wally is dead now, so as Prince Charles is not on the throne...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a cover-up!! i blame malcolm mclaren aka prince philip!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't there a rumour once that Elvis Costello was Wally Nightingale? I bet Costello started it himself, I very much doubt Wally started it.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

haha yes there was - i think julie burchill started it

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it all got a bit complicated so lizzie had to kill off wally. Some random bursts of revolutionary fervour and phil would get quite suspicious.

ok, so i don't know much about the sex pistols. But it's a theory.

― Nellie (nellskies), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

This was in "Trouser Press" back in 1977 (I saw this myself), they had a 'comedy' page where they said this, and this got repeated in a phone-in interview with Steve Jones (it's on "Some Product" CD/LP). The caller mentioned that the rumour was that ELvis wrote "Did you no wrong" (which was Wally, really).

Although I did have 'one of those blokes in the pub' reckon that he saw Madness when they were the North London Invaders, and the Sex Pistols when Elvis Costello was in the band. So who knows...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Was that about the time Elvis (Costello) had Huey Lewis in his band?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Huey Lewis' band Clover backed EC on "My aim is true". Huey, being vocalist, wasn't needed so went on holiday instead.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You see, I wasn't sure that Huey was in Clover at that time, I thought he joined them later................ and I don't mean later as in when he came back from his hols.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Huey joined, they all moved to England in 1976 and now oh I don't care anymore about the subject.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither do I. So about Wally Nightingale....

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I felt kinda sorry for him, though he seemed happy enough. He looked like a cross between Zoot Money and Hair off the hair bear bunch. He signed my poster 'warwick' (lowercase, just like that...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

major huey fans in not-fooling-anyone debacle

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Tin Huey were better

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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