Barry Manilow to world: "IF ONLY THE MASSES HAD ACCEPTED MY VISION! *HARGLEHACK!*"

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The show's run in Philadelphia was cancelled in November, an event which Manilow called the most devastating day of his life after his mother's death.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Gosh I wish Barry Manilow could still have hit singles! He was a dependable staple, like rice.

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the more important story, however, is here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2668847.stm

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, the picture looks just like him. Maybe she's right.

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Haters. Everywhere I turn, haters. I have a message for you haters, and that message is "step off." Thank you.

― Tanya Betts, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you, I think.

Manilow and Marchant, the DUET! It must happen.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I am Barry Manilow.

― queen G of copacabana, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I am Rod Hull

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I am Damo Suzuki

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm Tiger Woods.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a Trim & Edge.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I am L'Trimm

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not so sure of these claims.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not so sure of these clams, or the quality of this clambake.

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no idea what it means , but "Harglehack" is a beautiful word.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it was the name of Manilow's musical...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It sounds like the name of a small, New England town.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought I read somewhere that Manilow's musical was about the Comedian Harmonists.

― J (Jay), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, someone should make a musical about a woman who thinks she's Barry Manilow. And maybe she is!! Remember Barry Manilow is not the one who wrote "I write the songs".

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The woman was carrying a bag of Barry Manilow records

And this shall be the first line of the theme song...

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the best tabloid headlines I saw last year was "Barry Manilow breaks nose - no-one killed".

― Nick H (Nick H), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Mandy well,
You came and you thought that you were me,
They'll come and take you away.
Oh, Mandy well,
You've got a multiple personality,
And did they free you today? Oh, Mandy!

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

From the Clive Davis book, as Manilow sales start to ebb in the early 1980s:

“One day he said to me, ‘Look, I appreciate the songs you give me, but you’re turning me into Andy Williams or Perry Como. I’m a musician, I’m a composer!’ I looked him straight in the eye, and with all the frustration that had been building up, said, ‘Well, if you were Irving Berlin, we would know it by now!’ ”

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:14 (twelve years ago)

It's not exactly "fuck off" is it?

― Mark G, Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:20 (twelve years ago)

that's pretty close tbh

― my super interesting Kant story (DJP), Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:24 (twelve years ago)

not exactly "fuck me" either

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:25 (twelve years ago)

Man, whyever did I put this on ILE, anyway. Shifting boards...

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:27 (twelve years ago)

29. Whitney Houston can’t override gay rumors early in her career because she’s having an affair with Jermaine Jackson, a then-married man. “The relationship never became public even though everyone around her knew about it.”

30. Houston wants to be a songwriter … for about 10 minutes. Coming up on her third album, Houston knew that critics “have much greater regard for artists who write their own material than for those who don’t … Of course, money was a factor as well.” Davis told her she was in the tradition of Holiday, Vaughan, Aretha, Sinatra, and Streisand. “All of them are Olympian artists, and, for the most part, none of them wrote.” After that conversation, “she never brought the issue up with me again.”

Someone remind Clive that Aretha wrote songs.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 February 2013 15:28 (twelve years ago)

"for the most part"
probably fair to say regarding aretha.

― sleepingsignal, Thursday, 28 February 2013 17:28 (twelve years ago)

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