In anticipation of the Royal nuptuals an old Observer game, first played on the TV desk, has been revived on the Sports desk. In its original guise it was called 'least appopriate song to play as first dance at a wedding'. (e.g. 'Tainted Love'.)
Then today Victoria 'power behind the Sports desk throne' Barrett spotted a story on the wires from PA:
Bryan Adams classic hit Everything I do (I do it for You) is the top choice as a first dance at weddings, a poll showed today. A survey for Lloyds TSB ahead of Saturday's royal wedding revealed the Canadian star was the first choice of 5% of newlyweds.
Standard piece of PR-driven pseudo-survey guff. Will probably be on page 3 of Metro tomorrow. But this is the effect it had on the Observer Sport hacks:
I still like a friend of mine's choice for the first dance when she got hitched: 'Ever fallen in love' by the Buzzcocks. First songs at weddings are always a moment of cringe-making embarrassment for the onlookers, especially if you are trapped in the front row when your mate from work is lolloping through a choreographed version of the Lighthouse Family's epic 'Lifted'... They divorced not long afterwards.
Our European football correspondent Marcus is getting married shortly and asked the Sports Desk what hymns we would recommend for the ceremony. I thought of 'Jerusalem' (the Fat Les version); the only other ideas were your classic primary school assembly songs such as 'Lord of the Dance' and 'All Things Bright and Beautiful', having exhausted those we were onto carols - 'Oh Little Town of Bethlehem' (perhaps a wedding version with honeymoon suite and jacuzzi instead of stable and lowing oxen); 'The Holly and the Ivy' ... ?
If anyone can help Marcus out with musical suggestions post them on the blog otherwise someone from the desk might have to go to a church.
Game on. How about 'I hate you so much right now' by Kelis?
