h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Matt Monro - Singer - A33314942
Author: Galaxy Babe - U128652

I think this is finally ready
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpq1_AphUSY

GB

Well-crafted entry GB Just a couple of points:

<> I think it worth stating the seemingly obvious that Sinatra's album was entitled , if not inline then perhaps as a footnote?

I would combine the last three sections into a single section, Legacy

Well done on picking up the 'Fred Flange' angle.

I never knew about that

Thanks both

updated

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Sorry, I thought you meant the one header; I've now removed the last two subheaders,

Terrific!

I don't really have any useful suggestions.

When I read "he was demobbed in 1953" I wondered if that's what non-fans do to non-celebrities. Was he mobbed later to make up for it?

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A truely great singer ~ so natural and so smooth - far superior to Sinatra. I've had his voice in my head reading this Babe - I'll have to dig out the old vinyl.

Took me back -

I have apparently heard him lots more than I was aware of.

Imagine listening to Matt Monro with a glass of fresh carrot juice in your hand...

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I've got several gratuitous links already in A49214586 - if you find a place for a link to this, let me know

I just found a place - Har!

Aha, you spotted my Elvis links then?

Well of course I did

Uhuh-uhuh

Knew you would

and now, i've also added a link to the King.

You say the Beatles released "Yesterday" in 1976. I'm not a Beatles expert but I thought they broke up around 1970. Did you mean to say 1966?

No, I didn't mean 1966. You're correct that The Beatles broke up around 1970. "Yesterday" charted in 1976, for the first time as a single. Back in the USSR charted for the first time in 1976 as well, I think it's a business thing, called releasing the back catalogue, but I know nothing of the music business goings-on.

Ah I see. I had the "Oldies but Goldies" album in the early 70s and I didn't realise that the Yesterday on it had not yet been released as a single.

Wonderful entry. Like Paily, I never knew I know so many of his songs.

A few nitpicks:

He was the fifth child of a factory worker, Fred, and his wife Alice. - wouldn't it read better as: ... of factory worker Fred and his wife Alice.?

Back home Terry met Iris and they got married. Iris who?

daughter Michele is it really Michele, not Michelle?

has the ability to transform the listener to another place and time. I'm not sure that transform works in this context. Maybe transpose would fit better?