sugared hiccups (UK rock 'n' roll 1 of ??)

 

"He didn't have much of a voice either, he was all nose and tonsil, a poor man's Buddy Holly. What he did have, though was... a certain persistent oddity, a real individuality. His first number one, What Do You Want?, was one continuous hiccough, a dying fit, agonized and agonizing, the words contorted almost beyond recognition. He spewed up the word 'baby' as 'biybe', choking horribly on each vowel, and that was the major hook... it was catching; it made him. One word mispronounced and he had his whole career going for him" 

- Nik Cohn, AwopBopaLooBopLopBamBoom. 

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Arrangement by John Barry!

Adam Faith's singing style - seemingly composed out of multiple speech impediments - is the ancestor for both Steve Harley and D Double E.

"Natch, he flogged it hard, spluttering and expiring like a man inspired, and he did very nicely. In retrospect, his big hits - Poor Me, Someone Else's Baby, How About That? - stand up as the best, most inventive British records of that time, the only truly POP music we were producing then."

- Nik Cohn, AwopBopaLooBopLopBamBoom. 

"But the most important thing he did was to introduce the concept of Pop Singer as Thinker, now so popular in documentaries and the Sunday Papers"

- Nik Cohn, AwopBopaLooBopLopBamBoom

Sitting in the hot seat - still warm from Carl Jung and Edith Sitwell -  Adam Faith, interviewed by John Freeman for Face to Face, wowed parents across the land: what a thoughtful, well-spoken, courteous and candid young man.  No hooligan he: reads books, listens to classical music.

Went on to a successful career as an actor.