18 December 2005
Merry Christmas Everyone
Cliff says: What was Shakin' Stevens thinking when he came up with his stage name?
Did he even run it by his manager?
"Hmmm, let's see. Convulsing Stevens? "Convulsy", for short. Too much? OK, how about: Twitching Stevens. No, too creepy. I got it. What about Shaking? Shaking Stevens. Ooooh, no: "Shakin'". With a silent "g". You know, like Howly? Come on - Howly. You know, Howlin' Wolf?
"I could do my hair all black with a quiff and dance like this (He dances.) Who? What kind of a name is Elvis? (rolls eyes and shakes head). Anyway, so I'm thinking Christmas singles, right..."
This isn't a bad song as festive tunes go, except the lyrics sound like they were written by a man having hypotherapy:
"Snow is falling .... all around me.... children playing... having fun.... it's the season... records playing .... footsteps...room is swaying... up the stairs.... Poppa Shakey!.... Shakey baby!!!! No, no shakey!!!!! No!!!"
And have you seen the video?
Shakey's having this snowball fight with some kids and then he catches one and gives this little girl a kiss. You can't kiss a kid in videos any more, but it harks back to a more innocent age when you could kiss children on tv and pop stars had adjectives for first names.
Incidentally, the headline I’m waiting to run when he dies is “Shakin’ All Over.” You like?
Merry Christmas, everyone.
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