Hugh is that bloke standing behind me?
Anyone who’s been to Disneyland will know that ride — it’s great fun… for a while. It takes you around various representations of the globe with robot dolls from different cultures singing the “It’s A SmallWorld” soundtrack.
Let’s just say it becomes challenging, in the same way that song Barbie Girl became challenging quite quickly.
I told Hugh to ask them to switch the music off at least to preserve his sanity.
All I could think of was some poor Disneyland employee being taken to task by Hugh Laurie doing grumpy doctor House.
Maybe Hugh will grow to love the song and put it on his next album?
Speaking of musicians, I was in the barbers last week when a music legend was mentioned.
I was getting my usual trim and nothing else — contrary to popular belief, my hair colour is 100% natural. Or so it says on the bottle anyway.
The Beatles came on the radio and I asked if my barber was a fan.
“Of course, everyone loves the Beatles,” he said.“I also cut Paul’s hair.”
That was a bombshell — I’ve the same barber as PaulMcCartney!
When he’s sweeping up his clippings afterwards I wonder if there’s hair, there and everywhere. That one is for fans of Revolver!
The Beatles have been big news over in the US for the past couple of weeks with the 50th Anniversary of their appearance onThe Ed Sullivan Show.
The TV special had loads of great artists paying tribute — from Dave Grohl to Katy Perry to StevieWonder.
The highlight for me was Ed Sheeran’s wonderful cover of In My Life. If you can, check it out on YouTube.
The real Beatles’ set list was All My Loving, Till There Was You, She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There and I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
Amazingly all but one track was taken from a single album. Most bands would kill for that to be their career set list!