I just explained Craig David to barakta. She probably wishes I hadn't.
Could you explain him to me because I still don't understand.
He was a
ukc.misc in-joke that rose to fame on the back of Artful Dodger's masterpiece
Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say Bo Selecta), which you really haven't experienced until you've heard it sung
[1] by 12 year olds on the slow train from CHX to CBW. Wikipedia informs me this composition was nearly destroyed by a random act of WindowsME (or whatever shitty operating system the cool kids of the UK garage scene were using at the time) but they were able to re-construct it from a TDK D90 cassette
[2], on which they'd made a copy to listen to in the car
[3].
After a tediously successful musical career, he finally got his own Channel 4 comedy series in 2002, and would have faded into obscurity with that, concentrating on his Basingstoke-based vending machine business, if the aptly named Insanity Records hadn't resurrected him in 2017.
*This post may contain lies, or traces of lies.[1] This was the golden age between the invention of the Walkman and the rise of sodcasting, when portable music playing equipment could be relied upon to require headphones.
[2] Teenagers: Ask your parents.
[3] Just think, if they'd left it long enough, it would have turned into Queen's Greatest Hits and the world would be a very different place.
