Say Something Nice About Chris De Burgh

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I feel so guilty now.

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ladies Love Chris Be Burgh.

― jel, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Spanish Train' is funny

― dave q, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

he provided our very own queen of hearts, Saint Diana of Sloane Square with a lovely song to dance to, sniff

― cabbage, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and didn't he go to school with Nick Drake?

― cabbage, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shhh, let's not talk about him. Because "talk of the devil..." and he'll appear of course.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He was always good to his mum and we could leave our houses unlocked when he was around. You didn't get little old ladies being mugged. Etc. etc.

― Emma, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, my mother likes him so he must be good. ;)

shouldn't this question be on ILM?

― lady die, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Music is a subset of "Everything". Also somebody turned up on one of the other threads complaining that we were being mean to CDB so I thought we'd redress the balance.

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Telling us not to pay the ferryman until he got us to the other side was very sound advice, for which I am truly grateful.

― MarkH, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I quite like some of his older stuff. Or maybe I just remember liking it. I'm stuff from before whatever album 'High On Emotion' was on.

'Waiting for the hurricane' - I think that might actually be a good song which people would like if it wasn't by Chris De Burgh.

― The Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No way. Just no way. My mother swears the dog likes his stuff, though.

― suzy, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He did go to school with Nick Drake. He was apparently barred from Mr Drake's schoolboy band because he was too short.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

he only killed his own, and there was no crime on his manor.

― cabbage, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My mom saw him om TV and says he speaks excellent French.

― Patrick, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think A Spaceman Came Travelling is a ripping reinvention of the Christ myth for the Star Wars generation. ANd Lady In Red is better than piss poor Gene Wilder vehicle The Woman In Red.

― Pete, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think A Spaceman Came Travelling is a ripping reinvention of the Christ myth for the Star Wars generation. And Lady In Red is better than piss poor Gene Wilder vehicle The Woman In Red.

― Pete, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

he's a folk hero in Dnepropetrovsk, especially after saving those children

― gareth, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Lady In Red' was part of an amusing running gag in the tv adaptation of David Lodge's 'Nice Work'. That's the best I can manage Tom.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He made the trains run on time

― dave q, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He shook your hand before he shot you

― cabbage, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm amazed that this thread has yet to contain the word twunt.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In what sense is "twunt" a nice word. Well, I suppose it's a euphemism for some other words which you might use to talk about Chris De Burgh, but...

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have very bittersweet feelings towards Chris DeBurgh; right when "The Lady In Red" was a big hit, I had a massive crush on a girl who used to wear this dazzling red sweater. One weekend, I finally psyched myself up enough to ask her out on a date, got to school on Monday, and discovered that she'd been killed in a stupid car crash down the street from my house. Now, whenever I hear that song, I think of her and get a little melancholy.

(I think I'm the ILM Angel of Doom or something.)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dude, Dan, I never want to hang out with you again. I think me and Otis are lucky to survive our meeting with you, particularly since we stupidly ran out driving in the middle of the night :P

Um, I like the Lady In Red

― Ally, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He isn't Marlon Wayans.

― Chris, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i sat next to his godmother on a flight back from argentina..she was kinda nice, though when i woke up after passing out after too many cognacs, she'd moved...so maybe she wasn;t that nice....

― Geoff, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tom: y so guilty about christy burgh? did he email u saying u were 2 mean?

― junichiro, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

junichiro, I think you should know that right now my mental image of you strongly resembles Prince. (This is a good thing.)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thank u dan. prince ist my ultimate idol.

― junichiro, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rock on.

Ally: Actually, hanging out with me is the way to go. It's the people who are on the outskirts of my life who meet tragic, messy deaths. Despite doing some ridiculously silly stuff (including one guy who was run over by a van AND drove his car into an 8-foot-deep ditch with me in the passenger seat, plus another friend who once drank a liter of vodka in five minutes), none of my friends have ever been seriously hurt.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Without Chris De Burgh, modern music would not be so average.

― He's Not Here, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Tom, I do think it was very good of you to say some nice things! I'm sure he & his family would appreciate it too. Thanks again Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

He looks so happy, really:

http://media.farsnews.com/Media/8703/ImageReports/8703081026/3_8703081026_L600.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 May 2008 14:46 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQZgWbWfo7I

― James Mitchell, Sunday, 22 November 2009 11:24 (fifteen years ago)

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