Showing posts with label Stormzy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stormzy. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 April 2026

Snapshots #442: Head & Face Songs


This is the actor Max Frewer, better known for playing the supposedly computer-generated TV presenter, Max Headroom. What a wonderful world it was when computer generated characters were actually played by real human beings... rather than the other way round. Sigh. Old man needs a lie down.

Here are some songs about different parts of the head and face...


15. Gale force: snorrrrre.

Storm-zzzzzzz.

Stormzy - Crown

14. Living in a powder keg and...

...giving off Sparks, sang Bonnie Tyler.

Sparks - Moustache

13. He's a delight... are you too?

A Sunny Delight... unlike that bloke out of U2.

Sonny Bono - Rub Your Nose

12. I can almost remember their funny faces.

Opening lyric to Jet by Wings.

Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

11. They won't make you happy.

The Upsetters - Dollar In The Teeth

10. Steinbeck... Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth. 

One John and three Williams.

John Williams - Theme From Jaws

9. H2O XYs.

Water plus the male chromosome...

The Waterboys - And A Bang On The Ear

8. ...Wilson and Diana...

Jackie Wilson & Diana Ross.

Jackie Ross - Keep Your Chin Up

7. George, Elaine, Dave, Linda... Marty.

Back To The Future fans won't have had a problem identifying the McFly family.

McFly - Five Colours In Her Hair

6. Mountain in Brazil... or Wales.

Sugarloaf - Tongue In Cheek

5. Lourdes, Estere and Stella.

Madonna has 6 children, 4 of whom are girls. Missing from the list above is Mercy. So they are...

The Sisters Of Mercy - Temple Of Love

4. It's messed up to call him a scaled shit.

With apologies to Sacha for the uncouth anagram...

Sacha Distel - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

3. Barry Norman said it best.

I used to love Barry Norman's film reviews, even though I rarely agreed with them. And why not?

And Why Not? - The Face

2. Pretty... Norma... Sensational band.

Pretty Polly... Norma Jean... Sensational Alex Harvey...

PJ Harvey - Written On The Forehead

1. Town where it's August all year long.

Summer-ville, of course!

Jimmy Somerville - Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)


Face up to more Snapshots next Saturday - and meet them head on!

Monday, 23 March 2026

Celebrity Jukebox #73: Chuck Norris


Chuck Norris was once bitten by a king cobra; after ten excruciating minutes, the cobra died.

Ben messaged me midway through Friday afternoon to pass on the news that Chuck Norris had passed. My immediate reaction?

No. Way.

There would have been an expletive in the middle of that, but I was at work.

When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he doesn't push himself up, he pushes the Earth down.

I can't say I was ever a fan of Chuck Norris, but I'm still glad he existed. I do have fond memories of seeing his movies every Saturday afternoon in the local video shop. The ACTION MOVIES shelf was right next to the HORROR MOVIES shelf. My attention was always focused solely on the latter - unless I'd decided I wanted to watch Back To The Future or Ferris Bueller's Day Off again. Beyond Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, I didn't have much interest in the action films.

If you have $5 and Chuck Norris has $5, Chuck Norris has more money than you.

Back in the early days of the internet, Chuck Norris Facts became one of the first memes. They may have originated with a writer called Ian Spector who eventually published a series of collections, but many were just made up by people online. They played up to the idea that Chuck Norris was the toughest guy on the planet, and although Norris himself downplayed their significance, it's clear they played a big part in turning an average B-movie into a living, breathing icon.

Chuck Norris didn't dial the wrong number. You picked up the wrong phone.

This one was always my favourite.

Chuck Norris counted to infinity… twice.

Speaking of counting, I broke the lyrics search engine when I asked it to suggest songs with Chuck Norris in them. There are literally THOUSANDS of them. Most of them are rap songs, because toughness by association is a number one device in rap lyrics. Most of them weren't very good either. Chuck Norris deserved better. 

Here are a couple I liked...

I could never die, I'm Chuck Norris 
Fuck the government and fuck Boris

Stormzy - Vossi Bop

I want to kill Chuck Norris
And my trick is the invisible fist

Ice Cube - Street Fighter

Chuck Norris's Social Security number is the last nine digits of pi.

And here's one I've actually been listening to lately, from the world's best pop-punk pranksters, Bowling For Soup. This is a song about a woman who's got an abusive boyfriend, and what B4S would like to do to him...

I wish Bruce Lee was here right now
(With his fists of fury)
With his trusty nun-
Chuck Norris is still alive
So let's call up Walker, Texas Ranger
All the dudes from Danger Danger
Let's get the A-Team, 50-Cent with his bling-bling
And a couple of prison guards...

It takes a bad man to slap her around.
Such a tough guy to keep such a good girl down.
She's wearing shades but we all see
Behind the tinted glass.
And I've got 99 biker friends
That wanna kick your ass.

Bowling For Soup - 99 Biker Friends

Speaking of Chuck's long-running TV show, Walker, Texas Ranger... let's not forget that he did a Dennis Waterman on that...


There was once a street named after Chuck Norris, but the name was changed as nobody crosses Chuck Norris and lives.

There's even a band named after him. Ladies and gentleman, I give you... The Chuck Norris Experiment.


So yeah, when I heard Chuck Norris was dead, my reaction was a firm No. Way.

Because if Chuck can go, the rest of us are screwed.

We really are in the End Times now.

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