tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post187155096591759624..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: The reason pop star deaths always make the newsDavid Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-15680704455984172092017-01-11T19:21:31.671+00:002017-01-11T19:21:31.671+00:00He was the supplier of one of the two great sardon...He was the supplier of one of the two great sardonic laughs of 60's pop with "ahahaha" <br />Followed closely by Nancy Sinatra's These Boots are Made For Walking's exclamatory "Hah"<br /><br />I once found him judging a beauty contest in a half empty Thursday's nightclub in Ken High St midweek late 70's.<br />He was wearing the white suit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-63781649960343895012017-01-10T10:01:51.363+00:002017-01-10T10:01:51.363+00:00As you noted in your opening sentence, it is news....As you noted in your opening sentence, it is news. In fact I didn't know he'd died, so this was news to me.<br /><br />Whether such "trifles" are considered "newsworthy" is always a moot point. <br /><br />I was never a fan, but I can hear "Where Do You Go To My Lovely" once in a while without any shudders. As with so much of music, it reminds of....times and places and things.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16493567800389632669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-31455281454676118792017-01-10T08:26:40.891+00:002017-01-10T08:26:40.891+00:00Fair point. I personally don't think it would....Fair point. I personally don't think it would. I don't think stats come in to it. It's just a feeling that this song would be familiar to the programme's audience. Interesting that they've just closed down the Newsbeat web page because they found that young listeners preferred to get their news from the traditional news bulletins.David Hepworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-22719382437190981892017-01-09T12:18:25.408+00:002017-01-09T12:18:25.408+00:00Genuine question: Had the departed's sole hit ...Genuine question: Had the departed's sole hit been in 2009 rather than 1969, would the death have made the news? I ask because I wonder if the news agenda might be based on total sales (presumably far higher back then) or the song's afterlife, or if it is merely based on the target audience's age. Did Sarstedt's death make it onto Newsbeat or whatever happens these days on Radio 1?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com