Des O'Connor: When He Sings, The World Listens

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There is nothing I can feasibly add to this extraordinary piece of aural art, taken from a 1985 conceptual song cycle:

*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsSvA-wG4gA*

Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 12 June 2014 08:37 (eleven years ago)

It's been bugging me all day - who does his voice remind me of?

Then I realised, Jesus Christ, he sounds like Billy MacKenzie. Same phrasing and everything.

So the above wasn't meant to be ironic.

Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 12 June 2014 15:23 (eleven years ago)

Was gonna say, check out Des' version of "The Secret Life of Arabia" "It's Over", he must have done one surely.

Mark G, Thursday, 12 June 2014 23:32 (eleven years ago)

I have a near-indefensible fondness for his only #1 hit, "I Pretend".

president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Thursday, 12 June 2014 23:38 (eleven years ago)


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