Sky, I beg you... reconsider! Leave this alone! Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease!
(Yes, this is worthy of all those exclamation marks)!!
For a start, who are you going to get to play Frank 'n' Furter? There's no one can fill Tim Curry's fishnets! Tim WAS and IS Frank! Same with Eddie... Who can top Meat Loaf?
At least I hear that Richard O'Brien has washed his hands of this... Maybe Lou Adler needs the money more?
From what I read on the net, no one thinks this is a good idea!
There's a petition here that you can sign to try to get Sky and MTV to rethink this.
And I know I post this on a regular basis (hey! my blog, my rules), but here is the master at work... "Sweet Transvestite"...
Reading the birthdays for today on Wikipedia, there could only be one choice... regular blog readers will no doubt have read the title of this and will already be rolling their eyes and going "Oh, god... she's off again...", but I have to follow my heart...
Apr. 19th, 1946 - The one and only Tim Curry is born (sigh!)...
I know what you're going to say "But he's an actor, not a singer" - but nyah, boo, sucks to you! He's been a rock singer in his time too!
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", first we have "I Can Make You A Man" sung by Tim, and "Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul", by Meat Loaf...
And then shiver in antici.............. pation, because it's "Sweet Transvestite"...
Slight cheat today, because the birthday boy's not really a singer per se... He wrote the musical that my track features in - and he sings it, as well as vocals on other songs on the soundtrack...
Mar. 25th, 1942 - Richard O'Brien (born Richard Timothy Smith, but there was already an actor Richard Smith) and "Science Fiction/Double Feature" from the brilliant "Rocky Horror Picture Show"... although Richard doesn't actually appear in this clip - it's left to the red lips...
One for the Christmas party season... Damian's remix of "The Time Warp" from the classic "Rocky Horror Picture Show" - he's not a patch on Tim Curry (mmm... Tim Curry... in fishnets... Er! Sorry... drifted off there for a minute!), but it's still a great song...
Eddie Izzard... especially with the little goatee... Gorgeous, and funny too...
And Tim Curry... starting with my first introduction to him, and what started me off thinking he was hot - as Frank-n-Furter (see, I told you "strange") in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"...
And even as he got older (and ditched the suspenders & make-up), he's still not bad...
