Comments on: NICOLE – “A Little Peace”

By: malmo58

malmo58 — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:01:48 +0000

I live for the day when Tracey Ullman’s parody of this from Three Of A Kind (as ‘Rissole’) gets slung up on Youtube.

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:42:28 +0000

The people upstairs must be shaking their head and wondering what kind of nonsense is he listening to now.

By: Billy Smart

Billy Smart — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 19:54:21 +0000

Actually, on reflection, I think that ‘One Step Further’ by Bardo is one of the best pop things ever. Just look at the joyous and imaginative routine that they devised for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCxIEP21gZM

By: DietMondrian

DietMondrian — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:09:00 +0000

I recall my parents were indignant at this winning, as they thought it was a deliberate rebuke from the rest of Europe to the UK for our waging the Falklands War, which was about a month old at the time.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:15:20 +0000

My recollection is that this was the last Eurovision winner to be a big UK hit.

Not so; Johnny Logan’s “Hold Me Now” reached #2 in 1987, Katrina & the Waves “Love Shine A Light” reached #3 in 1997, Dana International’s “Diva” reached #11 in 1998, Charlotte Nilsson’s “Take Me To Your Heaven” reached #20 in 1999, XTM & DJ Chucky’s Eurobosh cover of The Olsen Brothers’ “Fly On The Wings Of Love” reached #8 in 2003… and this year’s winner “Fairytale” by Alexander Rybak is at #3 in the midweeks.

By: плoxaя

плoxaя — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:58:52 +0000

Эх… :) Вы бы знали что про Вас пишут в других блогах :)

By: LondonLee

LondonLee — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:57:37 +0000

As the father of a two year old I can tell you it will.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:24:24 +0000

I’m aiming for 150 this year, by the way. But with a baby arriving in May that might go awry.

By: peter goodlaws

peter goodlaws — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:52:07 +0000

Tom…you’ve created a MONSTER!!!!!!

By: Erithian

Erithian — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:10:14 +0000

Or to put it another way (cut & pasted from Christmas)
2003: No 66, Jerry Lee Lewis – Great Balls of Fire (Jan 58) – 66 reviewed from Sep-Dec
2004: No 167, Peter and Gordon – A World Without Love (Apr 64) – 101 in the year
2005: No 222, The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine (Aug 66) – 55
2006: No 302, T Rex – Get It On (Jul 71) – 80
2007: No 362, Mud – Lonely This Christmas (Dec 74) – 60
2008: No 477, Shakin’ Stevens – This Ole House (Mar 81) – 115

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:41:09 +0000

Tom’s progress report (i know how much he wants this)

#1 Al Martino – 16 September 2003

#50 Anne Shelton – 24 October 2003 (1 month)
#100 Anthony Newley – 20 May 2004 (7 months)
#150 Gerry & Pacemakers – 19 November 2004 (6 months)
#200 Beatles band – 14 March 2005 (4 months)
#250 Garry Puckett – 17 August 2006 (17 months)
#300 Tony Orlando et Dawn – 20 November 2006 (3 months)
#350 Ray Stevens – 23 October 2007 (11 months)
#400 Julie Covingtons – 28 May 2008 (7 months)
#450 Specials – 20 October 2008 (5 months)
#500 nicole – 18 March 2009 (5 months)

overall averaging 2 reviews a week

By: Erithian

Erithian — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:30:22 +0000

I enjoyed the letter in When Saturday Comes in the early 90s, at the time when Jean-Pierre Papin was at his peak for Marseille, where the writer said that whenever the commentator shouted “Papin!” his dad replied “Nicole!”

By: peter goodlaws

peter goodlaws — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:12:27 +0000

# 47 – That stuff with Nicole and Papa was more than a little worrying but at least he didn’t lock her up in the spare room for twenty odd years.

Renault Clio Nicole and BOB MORTIMORE?!! Christ, that sounds less likely than Kylie Minogue and Nicholas Witchell!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:07:46 +0000

The French version was a huge hit in Quebec. I remember my 5th grade teacher praising it. I had no idea until now that there was an English-language version, much less that it had hit #1 in the UK.

By: a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît

a tanned rested and unlogged lørd sükråt wötsît — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:31:49 +0000

bob mortimer is dapper and cute

By: Erithian

Erithian — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:18:59 +0000

DV #45 – I was just thinking about that this morning – no subsequent Eurovision winner has reached number 1, and the only UK Eurovision entry to do so was [muffled by bunny] who was Australian anyway.

Nicole did a French version of this which was a big hit in, well, France (“La paix sur terre, c’est ma prière…” see http://en.lyrics-copy.com/nicole/la-paix-sur-terre.htm ) – although she wasn’t anything to do with the Nicole in the Renault Clio ads… the one who bizarrely finished up with Bob Mortimer.

By: crag

crag — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:57:14 +0000

Well done on the half century, Tom! Great work!

We’re really getting into real Proustian rush territory for me by now- i have various TOTP based recollections here- Nicole recieving a plaque or somesuch from Paul Gambicinni(?) for her achievement, the Fun Boy Three performance mentioned by Billy above which was when 9 year-old me realised for the first time that TOTP was mimed and weirdest of all a “hilarious” skit on the edition before Eurovision showing a video of the “French Euro Entry” ( In reality, France declined to take part in ’82) which consisted basically of a French rewrite of Making your Mind Up by a Fizz lookalike group- oh how we all laughed(or rather i would have if i understood it at the time…)
Did this REALLY happen or did i just dream it??

Btw i’d give this a 4- i cant decide if its sweet in a nothingy kind of way or nothingy in a sweet kind of way…

By: DV

DV — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:47:48 +0000

My recollection is that this was the last Eurovision winner to be a big UK hit.

By: peter goodlaws

peter goodlaws — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:59:09 +0000

# 43 – I think you’re right. She’s clearly had more than a little piece now…(see what I did there?)

By: Conrad

Conrad — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:40:58 +0000

She looks like she’s lived and loved. A touch of the Bonnie Tylers as well as Celine

By: lonepilgrim

lonepilgrim — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:13:09 +0000

she now looks very glam and slightly scary on her website, like a teutonic Celine Dion:
http://www.nicole-4-u.de/

By: rosie

rosie — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:23 +0000

I have to say that, for what it’s worth, the Nicole on this sleeve looks quite a stunner to me and what’s more, the stunningness isn’t liable to be washed off.

By: peter goodlaws

peter goodlaws — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:41:21 +0000

I’ve just seen a pic of Nicole from last year. She is now 44 and looks very nice.

Tom – One of my chaps once harked on about Fischer Z and played me a track called “The Worker”, which I think charted here. I was expecting a punkish political rant but it was soft and melodious with a rather sad litle story behind the lyric. He also gave me a blast of “Prime Time” by The Tubes, which for me really hit the spot.

By: peter goodlaws

peter goodlaws — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:13:53 +0000

Bat in the air, Tom. Well done.

I have to admit to have had a crush on Fraulein Nicole, although I think in retrospect that she certainly had not yet indulged in the activities enjoyed on a maiden voyage by Popular’s very own Kentish Manc during the night of her triumph. This seemed to have been confirmed by her follow-up, “Give Me More Time”, although this might, of course, referred to a lad who was a little too quick off the mark for her liking. She looked like the girl next door, but they’re usually the worst (or the best, depending on how you look at it!)

By: vinylscot

vinylscot — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:06:37 +0000

#14 & #26 Roger Kitter = also Captain Alberto Bertorelli out of “Allo Allo”

Well done Tom, an amazing feat… which is more than this record is. A cynical, but obvious Euro-winner. I don’t agree that it is no worse than “All Kinds of Everything”, as at least Shane and Sinead managed to redeem that one!