I heard a strong rumour many years ago (before this song came out, no less) that he’d been discovered, all trussed up, during a police raid on a Kensington BDSM dungeon. But then, what are rumours?
26 August 2014
Dr Desperate
Well, this is one. (I think that’s Frank Bough you’re thinking of, V.)
26 August 2014
GoK WAN ACOLYTE
I think the picture of the girl in the Cadbury’s Flake Ad should be posted next to the one of the legendary World of Sport presenter, since I’ve never been sure (too young at the time) if she really did have “Dickie Davies Eyes”
Vaughan, “I heard a strong rumour…” …”that Bett. Midler had a tumour”!
26 September 2014
Cream cheese and chives
There I was going about my business and Dickie D Eyes came on. My mind wandered back to World of Sport, On the Ball, Brian Moore, Gerald Sindstadt and the frightfully exotic plane towing the banner in its wake. I started to think about the relief frontman Fred Dineage and wondered what DD was up to when Dineage was asked to step in. I remember him from How? It is odd that a children’s tv presenter should double up on the ITV sport behemoth. Why not Bunty or Jack Hargreaves from the How? table? I look up old Fred and find his daughter is now an MP. I assume any hopes old Frank Bough’s offspring may have had for public office were curtailed by his tabloid fuelled fall from grace.
12 December 2017
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
Fred still pops up on obscure TV channels late at night presenting low budget “True Crime” documentaries. Apparently he is (or was) a regional TV news anchor after the heady days of How & World of Sport (in a similar manner to post-Krypton factor Gordon Burns (q.v.))
13 December 2017
Brumbiscuit
And here in the Midlands, on BBC (West) Midlands Today, we get Nick Owen! He’s an anchor, or a similar homophone.
Dickie Davies’ demise brings to mind World of Sport but associated with him also is the aeroplane that towed a banner emblazoned with the show’s name. Are planes ever used to tow signs nowadays other than those that demand (Insert name of manager ) OUT! or racist shite from Burnley fans? Time was the skies were spotted with advert towing single propeller jobs.
20 February 2023
Lux inferior
Something for lovers of ‘World of Sport’ here, perhaps. Dickie & Kendo’s collaboration reminiscing about the golden age of grapple. £4.18 for a used copy sounds about right.
vaughan
I heard a strong rumour many years ago (before this song came out, no less) that he’d been discovered, all trussed up, during a police raid on a Kensington BDSM dungeon.
But then, what are rumours?
26 August 2014
Dr Desperate
Well, this is one.
(I think that’s Frank Bough you’re thinking of, V.)
26 August 2014
GoK WAN ACOLYTE
I think the picture of the girl in the Cadbury’s Flake Ad should be posted next to the one of the legendary World of Sport presenter, since I’ve never been sure (too young at the time) if she really did have “Dickie Davies Eyes”
27 August 2014
toastkid
GWA – here you go. There is a resemblance in the eyes, I’d say.
27 August 2014
Eugene C
I wasn’t looking a the eyes
1 September 2014
‘Muffa’
Vaughan, “I heard a strong rumour…” …”that Bett. Midler had a tumour”!
26 September 2014
Cream cheese and chives
There I was going about my business and Dickie D Eyes came on. My mind wandered back to World of Sport, On the Ball, Brian Moore, Gerald Sindstadt and the frightfully exotic plane towing the banner in its wake. I started to think about the relief frontman Fred Dineage and wondered what DD was up to when Dineage was asked to step in. I remember him from How? It is odd that a children’s tv presenter should double up on the ITV sport behemoth. Why not Bunty or Jack Hargreaves from the How? table? I look up old Fred and find his daughter is now an MP. I assume any hopes old Frank Bough’s offspring may have had for public office were curtailed by his tabloid fuelled fall from grace.
12 December 2017
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
Fred still pops up on obscure TV channels late at night presenting low budget “True Crime” documentaries. Apparently he is (or was) a regional TV news anchor after the heady days of How & World of Sport (in a similar manner to post-Krypton factor Gordon Burns (q.v.))
13 December 2017
Brumbiscuit
And here in the Midlands, on BBC (West) Midlands Today, we get Nick Owen! He’s an anchor, or a similar homophone.
13 December 2017
hendrix-tattoo
Let’s not forget his ‘Cup Soccer’ moment….
https://youtu.be/JmH8msZXdGg
15 July 2018
hendrix-tattoo
Dickie maybe could of done better than Tranmere’s goalie with the same surname….
26 January 2020
dickhead in quicksand
Props to Jane Clinton in the Guardian obit for very properly mentioning the song.
20 February 2023
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
As indeed does the BBC obit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-64700358
20 February 2023
Cream cheese and chives
Dickie Davies’ demise brings to mind World of Sport but associated with him also is the aeroplane that towed a banner emblazoned with the show’s name. Are planes ever used to tow signs nowadays other than those that demand (Insert name of manager ) OUT! or racist shite from Burnley fans? Time was the skies were spotted with advert towing single propeller jobs.
20 February 2023
Lux inferior
Something for lovers of ‘World of Sport’ here, perhaps. Dickie & Kendo’s collaboration reminiscing about the golden age of grapple. £4.18 for a used copy sounds about right.
21 February 2023