Friday 23 April 2010

GEORGIE FAME



Some iconic English "Georges" (fact or fiction, past or present, living or dead) for St George's Day. Each one represents something quintessentially English.

Pictured above: Georgie Fame (b. Clive Powell, 1943), rhythm and blues and jazz singer and keyboard player. Fame's version of the song "Yeh Yeh", released January 1965, spent two weeks at number one on the UK singles chart. "Get Away", released July 1966, was also a number one hit single. Fame's greatest chart success was "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" in 1967, which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, and No.7 in the United States. Both "Yeh Yeh" and "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" each sold over one million copies, and were awarded gold discs.

Highly appropriate to have Georgie Fame here, since, as well as being the weekend-long St George's Day Festival, this weekend also sees the unveiling of the Leicester Walk of Fame in the city's Cultural Quarter.

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