My Top Ten: Shilpa Ray

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Monday, 24 March 2025

Mid-Life Crisis Songs #121: Bring on the sagging everything...

Here's a photo I found in my phone. I must have taken it accidentally while out on a walk, possibly while fiddling with the music on a playlist. I quite like the effect.

And now, here's a proper Mid-Life Crisis Song by Brooklyn's Shilpa Ray. At just 45, she's a bloody whipper-snapper, but still, she's obviously starting to feel the years...

Bring on the sagging everything

Bad back and elastic waist bands

I wanna age

So disgracefully

I don't think I hear you

My tinnitus from the last generation of cokeheads

They're still jeering, it's endearing

Monday, 27 February 2023

Celebrity Jukebox #73: Angela Lansbury

Last week, we lost Raquel Welch. It's only a few months since she featured here... so maybe I am going to stick with dead celebs for the time being. Plenty of them to go around, and as Alyson reminds us, there will be more and more over the next few years.

All of which brings us to Angela Lansbury, who died last year, aged 96. Most famous for her role as crime-busting author Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote, Lansbury had been acting for over 40 years before she took on that part, including major roles in The Manchurian Candidate, Bedknobs & Broomsticks and The Company of Wolves. Not forgetting that she was Elvis's mum in Blue Hawaii. And she could sing too...

Angela Lansbury - It's Today

Would you expect to find her in a Wu Tang Clan song though?

Wu Tang Clan feat. Ras Kass - The End

Hereditary trait, seeking salvation like the Cranberries

Wrote Murder with Angela Lansbury often

Til my biological clock stops and my casket falls

Quite.

Once that's out of the way, we can turn to music (and lyrics) more suited to these aging eardrums...

Laura's Invention - Enter I Said

Sinatra died and Grandma cried and we all sat around until

I asked if you'd ever seen the Manchurian Candidate

It's a John Frankenheimer film