Pop stars with the seX Factor

A friend asked me today if I'd ever fancied Phil Oakey. Like, urgh! No way. His half-man, half woman look was too androgynous. And quite threatening, like the Robert Mapplethorpe of the man with the bullwhip up his arse. Oh, go on then, clicky here. Nah. Never. Fancied. Him.

Now, David Essex on the other hand. Totally non-threatening. Those puppy dog eyes, that soft voice. How cute?!!

How cuter??!!!

Heaven help me, I even got the cod reggae and general dick-headness out of my brain to fancy, shhh, Sting.

Predictably, these days, Shayney gets my USB stick all hot and bothered...

And I just wish it had been my toggle A-list indie kid Surfjan Stevens had blown into instead of Santa's...

The list is endless of pop stars we'd all like to boff. And that's exactly why most of them are around. Which makes me wonder what the future holds when this is the future...

*Does a lumpy little sick into the back of throat*

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Today's Christmas song is the very 1982-sounding A Winter's Tale by the aforementioned David Essex. Now to an awkward bolshy teenager like myself, this Mike Batt composed song (yes! I know! Kate 'bloody' Melanoma), would have me groaning loudly when it came on TOTP in that attention-seeking way: "Ugh! This is shit". But we all know that secretly I was thinking: "I actually quite like this". Here's the guilty pleasure in mp3 form below...

A Winter's Tale - David Essex (zShare)

BTW, this is David Essex these days:

Er. Bless.