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Contrary to the title of this page "Dead Bands - Where Are You Now?", John Otway has never disappeared! He is still going very strong and his fan base is huge. Over the past few years he has sold out the Royal Albert Hall, played to thousands at Glastonbury and his song "Beware of The Flowers - Cos I'm Sure They're Gonna Get You - Yeah" was voted the 7th Favourite Lyric of All Time in a BBC National Poll - ahead of Bob Dylan!

This year is going to be a Big One for Otway, as his fans have promised him a second hit single for his 50th birthday - his first being "Really Free" 25 years ago in 1977 - and we are going to chose what it is. He recently recorded the B Side at Abbey Road Studios with a backing chorus of a 1000 fans, and those fans - and many, many more, have requested a Voting CD of 11 songs so that we can chose the next hit single. The result of the poll (independently checked by the Electoral Reform Society) will be announced at a gig at the Astoria, London on 27th July.

So confident is he that he will have a hit for his birthday, Otway has booked the London Palladium for the first Sunday in October - just after the charts are announced - so that we can all celebrate him being a TWO Hit Wonder together.

So far from being a candidate for "Where Are You Now?" - he is still a pretty big microstar.


You can read all about the Hit Campaign and how you can help at [Broken link removed by Moderator] and http://www.otnews.net

Janea57, edit your page and tell us something about yourself. A nice ACE (Assistant Community Editor) type person will come along and say welcome when you do. Oh you could write an entry about John Otway too.


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Ali
er .... Thanks for that but this thread is to tell everyone how brilliant John Otway is so some confusion there.
Everyone will have a chance to find out soon as the Hit campaign (see jane's post above) hots up.

Apparently web references are not allowed so I think if you type "otopoly" into a search engine of your choice
you should find out a lot more.

Trust me! I am a chemist!

Theramin

Oops I made a boo boo!
You need to type 'testuserpage', not 'testuserspace'. So the URL you'll need to test Rocket Man's user page (for example) is -

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