Football and Music

As all football historiaficionado’s know, El Tel and KK both had a crack at the singing, which was just as much of a success as their management careers… But what about any of the current footballers ?
Are there, for example, any Chelski players who have stepped up and not been afraid (unlike last Sunday in the Charity/Community Shield) to approach to the mic ?

The Guardian’s The Knowledge was asked this question by a reader and this is what they found »

Which footballers have released a record?
James Dart and Paolo Bandini/ Wednesday August 8, 2007 / Guardian Unlimited

“Last week we investigated whether or not Roque Santa Cruz really rocks: he, er, does. However, we then decided to widen our search to find the players that have appeared in music videos, and it appears the line between football and music is a little more blurred than you might think …

First up, there is the new Man USA signing Carlos Tevez, who is also the front man in a band called Piola Vago, who play cumbia villera, a form of Argentinian shantytown/urban music. “Here it’s all hip-hop, all in English, so they don’t understand a thing,” Tevez told the Times of his old West Ham colleagues. “They want to hear it, they ask me but I say no to them. If they don’t understand, what’s the point of making them listen to it?” Interestingly, Piola Vago managed to hit the charts in Argentina with their song Lose Your Control, a jaunty little number which, according to the scummy Sun, has Carlitos “singing about whipping a girl and begging her for sex”.

A little less raunchy is the former Derby, West Ham and Hajduk Split defender Igor Stimac, who cut a record in Croatia as part of the Bohems just prior to the 1998 World Cup. “The country went mad about it,” recalled Stimac. “We were the Bohems and the record was called Mary and Katie - it was just picked out of nowhere really. It was only me and a group of friends but the song ended up No1 for four months! I think the sales were really down to Croatia doing well in the tournament rather than my voice! I sang on the record and played guitar.” Many thanks to Ed Gilbert for this clip of the Bohems in action.”

The article continues on with a few more examples » Click here to read it

Footnote about this post title - you've heard/read it somewhere before haven't you ? It is from those famous and long suffering Barcodes supporters Ant & Dec. Under their Byker Grove persona - PJ and Duncan, I took a line from one of their assaults on the charts:
[link to video] - See the efforts to hide his forehead ! Look at Dec’s curtain haircut !
[Link to the lyrics] - Shakespeare had nothing on these kids !

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