Obvious things that took you ages to realise!

[Ellie]

Having only ever heard Blockbuster by The Sweet on the radio and not knowing the title, to this day I still only hear “does anyone know the way to the bus stop?”

 

[Nancy]

Also musically - "Soft Cell" = soft sell, the opposite of hard sell as in "giving someone the hard sell" in trying to persuade them.

I never realised that!

I thought it was referring to a padded cell.

 

[Nancy]

Having only ever heard Blockbuster by The Sweet on the radio and not knowing the title, to this day I still only hear “does anyone know the way to the bus stop?”

Are they actually singing about the video rental store?

 

[Diddy]

I thought they were singing about Bob Holness

 

[octophone]

I never realised that!

I thought it was referring to a padded cell.

I *think* that's the intention.

 

[Christian]

Also musically - "Soft Cell" = soft sell, the opposite of hard sell as in "giving someone the hard sell" in trying to persuade them.

Also fun that they reference that themselves in the lyrics for Insecure Me:

And you can really go to hell if you give me the soft sell
It's not me that's feeling insecure

Quite the song

 

[Marilyn]

It was years after I'd first heard of her when I realised Sandie Shaw = sandy shore

 

[octophone]

It was years after I'd first heard of her when I realised Sandie Shaw = sandy shore

The original shit drag name.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

That Horrible Histories is the greatest kids program since Maid Mairion.

 

[RS]

It was years after I'd first heard of her when I realised Sandie Shaw = sandy shore

Oh!

 

[win_the_game]

It was years after I'd first heard of her when I realised Sandie Shaw = sandy shore

I’d never have worked that out with my accent!

 

[lolly]

I’d never have worked that out with my accent!

Same here. And therefore I choose not to believe it.

 

[Indie]

I can't hear in my head an accent that would make that not work.

 

[Nancy]

Lucky for her that her surname wasn’t Crack

 

[win_the_game]

I can't hear in my head an accent that would make that not work.

With the Scottish rolled r, I can’t work out how Shaw would become Shorrrre.

 

[Eddie]

I thought sticky backed plastic was those BIG SHEETS of it you got at school

Yes.

Blue Peter referred to sellotape as "sticky tape" not sticky backed plastic - that is something else entirely.

 

[lolly]

With a rhotic R in Shore and a parasitic L in Shaw, I hear them quite differently.

 

[Nancy]

I have just this minute discovered that BABE RUTH was a MAN

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

Faith Hill's actual birth name is not Faith Hill, it's Audrey Faith Perry (now Audrey Faith McGraw).

 

[Tisch]

Sade is a BAND fronted by a woman called Sade (whose real name is HELEN)

 

[Ellie]

Sade is a BAND fronted by a woman called Sade (whose real name is HELEN)

I saw this very recently

 

[Tisch]

I saw this very recently

Yes I saw the same! Was news to me! (Not that I've ever followed them much)

 

[lolly]

Sade the person was always commonly known as Sade rather than Helen though wasn't she? And the album covers only featured her, and I don't remember anyone other than her doing the promo circuit (not that she/they ever did much, I think). So I get the confusion of people not realising it was a band rather than a person. It's not like she was ever introduced as Helen.

I wouldn't say it was as obvious as the Debbie Harry 'Blondie Is A Band' business.

 

[AlgoAlex]

Sade brought her Volvo in for a service and my aunt served her, she was lovely apparently.
The HUSBAND HOWEVER bit of a cunt

 

[RJN]

Sade brought her Volvo in for a service and my aunt served her, she was lovely apparently.
The HUSBAND HOWEVER bit of a cunt

You might not know this, but her name is Helen

 

[lolly]

Perhaps the husband did like being called Mr Helen

 

[AlgoAlex]

You might not know this, but her name is Helen

This is brnd new information

 

[jyxz]

Toyah was a band. Her real name is Toyah.

 

[Diddy]

Sade brought her Volvo in for a service and my aunt served her, she was lovely apparently.
The HUSBAND HOWEVER bit of a cunt

Her husband is also called Helen

 

[AlgoAlex]

Her husband is also called Helen

As is my Aunt

 

[Diddy]

As is my unt

 

[Kate]

I also have an Aunty Helen

 

[AlgoAlex]

I also have an Aunty Helen

(Mine isn't really called Helen but why let the truth get in the way eh ?)

 

[Ellie]

I have a… cousin-in-law Helen if that’s a thing.

 

[Tisch]

No Auntie Helen here, just a boring old common Auntie Sadé

 

[Nancy]

 

[lolly]

 

[octophone]

The Barron Knights = barren nights i.e. nights you fail to pull anything other than yr pudding.

 

[Nancy]

Helen Earth would be a good drag name.

 

[Diddy]

Helen Earth would be a good drag name.

I can’t decide if it’s annoying or not, like how Ella Vaday’s name made me more and more irritated the more I heard it