Record Review, The Dickie Rock Collection, The Irish Daily Mail

Artist: Dickie Rock
Source: Paddy Murphy

Here's a quote to start “Biggie was a fat, foul-mouthed, sexist, talentless, gun-toting drug-dealer from Brooklyn, who followed his dream, of turning himself into a fat, foul-mouthed, sexist, talentless, gun-toting millionaire rapper”. The Mail on Sunday ain't known for being the nicest paper in the world but this weekend it did give away a Dickie Rock cd, Drop-d couldn't resist a review

It would be too easy to hate Dickie Rock. Way too easy, he's supposed to be an arrogant old so-and-so, he was in a successful band during the hay-day of the Showbands era. He was the first artist to ever debut at number 1 in the Irish charts. He's had 25 hits, yea read that again, 25 big cash money earners. Only the Beatles, Elvis, Sir Cliff, Bowie and the Rolling Stones have done better than that. Even Westlife haven't got there yet. He also represented Ireland in the 1966 Eurovision coming forth behind, the classic Merci Cheri from Austrian crooner Udo Jurgens. The phrase Spit on me Dickie came into being because the young ones at the time would do anything for the sexbomb, even begging him to at least spit on them. He was the first Western star to play in communist Russia. He's also had sex with many many women. Many women.

History lesson over, lets talk about what Dickie's good at. (No sniggering down the back). Surely if somebody is that successful then they have to have some amount of talent. Remember this was a simpler time, long before Louis Walsh's and Simon Cowell's evil antics. A time when priests would go to local discos and separate young couples if they stood too close to each other for fears of another immaculate conception . Britain and the Yanks had punks and hippies while we had showbands, we got the short end of the stick for sure but wasn't it good honest-to-God living.

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