Annie? Get Your Gun!

i read with great interest (jesus christ, do i really have to say that?), that Annie Lennox is to release a song “backed by 23 of the world’s most talented female singers”. Now, i have a lot of time for Annie. 4 minutes 25 seconds to be precise. That’s how long “Shame” from the “Savage” album lasts (number 41 in ’87 if my memory serves me well..a big old flop, and thats the mark of a true classic boys and girls..). And we have to thank her at least for covering “No More I Love You’s” as some belated financial reward for those poor sods in The Lover Speaks (if you haven’t hunted their album down you have a void in your life that needs filling).
Ok, ok, i’ll give you Eurythmics “Never Gonna Cry Again” and that video for “There Must Be An Angel..” but only for the fat bloke with the ginger curls, panstick and big f***-off wings twittering like some demented budgie in a blouse the size of Lichenstein. But other than that, bloody what?
So, this new track, “Sing”. Well, Madonna is on it. Fair enough. She hasn’t half come out with some toss in her time, but anyone who gets the thumbs up from the greatest group in the history of the world EVER, PERIOD, END OF, er Abba that is you fools, is alright in my books. And let’s face it, apart from the Foo Fighters she was the only thing worth watching on Live Earth. I mean, i could do without the sob sob kiddy choir song (“I Have A Dream” was 28 years ago love! Though granted that was shite too...), that awful rawk geetar version of “Ray Of Light” where she plays the same one chord and still has to look down to check her bloody fingers every 3 seconds (or was it her nails?), and “La Isla Bonita” which was an abomination first time around and barely better with the gypsies, but my God you have to hand it to a woman of her age, in ‘er knickers, running her parking meter up and down the handle of a ghetto blaster in front of 70,000 people (the elderly and afflicted et al) and calling it entertainment! And to the sound of Abba! Genius!