Execs TOLD BAND TO LEARN to Sing Without a THICK ACCENT...They REFUSED & Hit #1 | Professor of Rock
5,803Coming up, a tale of twin brothers of The Proclaimers who were told by all the tastemakers that if they wanted to make it in music they should learn to sing without an accent. Their thick accents stopped many labels from giving them a chance and they were so original that a famous TV host called them weird on live TV… But this only motivated them and eventually, they had a massive hit all over the world in 1988 well everywhere but America… I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles). They couldn’t understand why it didn’t take off in the US. But then in a stroke of good luck, a famous actress made the director use the song in her scene in a movie, and it blew up 5 years after it was a hit everywhere else. 500 Miles hit #1 here, but even then some radio stations wouldn’t play it because of a misheard lyric that they found offensive. The story is next on Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightning. where we break down a song that was king for a day or many days. A dong that was so big, that the artist or band wasn’t able to match it’s success long term. Most call ‘em one-hit wonders but we call them lightning in a bottle. This one is an old classic from an 80s brother duo that was also a hit in the following decade…one of the most interesting Bottled Lightning stories I’ve come across.
Love will make us do crazy things. The determination to prove our love for another makes us unreasonable….unstoppable….invincible! That superhuman resilience has been captured in the lyrics of some of popular music’s most beloved songs: Luminaries like Marvin Gaye who teamed with Tammi Terrell to vow that there “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, ain’t no valley low enough, ain’t no river wide enough to keep them away..”
And Nat King Cole, who pledged his ubiquitous love when he proclaimed to his darling: “I’ll follow my star to the ends of the earth, just to be where you are.” In another act of insurmountable devotion put to music, two brothers from Scotland promised to walk 500 miles- then 500 more, just to be the man to fall down at the door of their love:
Identical twin brothers, Craig and Charlie Reid were teenagers at Bell Baxter High School, in Fife, Scotland, when they saw The Clash in concert, and were spellbound by what they experienced. With only a cheap guitar and a worn-out drum kit, the brothers decided to put a punk band together and named it Black Flag. No relation to the punk band from Hermosa Beach, California famously fronted by Henry Rollins.
Neither Charlie, nor Craig were punkers at heart, so when Black Flag disbanded in 1983, the brothers decided to become an acoustic-styled duo they called The Proclaimers and slowly developed a following around Inverness, the capital of the Scottish Highlands. As sons of Scotland, the Reids had really thick Scottish accents and made no effort to disguise their heritage when they sang in front of live audiences.