On what would have been David Beuwie's 78th birthday.
David Beuwie -nĂ© Jones- was a failed mime artist who tried at reuck music. He is mostly famous for his Xmas duo with Bing Crosby -who visibly did not have the first idea about who he was- with his “little drummer” song (“ra-tatatata”) and the BBC public poll favourite “the laughing gnome” ("ha ha ha ha"). If one feels charitable, one could also mention his stunning 1977 album “Low” - stunning in that he gleefully rips off the likes of Siouxsie, Japan, Kraftwerk, the Stranglers, Simple Minds or even New Order on it with not a bleeding care in the world.
Getting understandably frustrated with that music business, Beuwie famously decided to storm out of it like a big girl's blouse; did so after touring with spiders or something. He then had a go at cinema, giving us the classic “Labyrinth”. Sadly Beuwie -as it turned out- was not made for cinema either; who, indeed, will have forgotten his turn as a schoolboy in Oshima's “Merry Xmas Mr. Lawrence” aka “Furyo”? He therefore decided to advertise butter (or it may have been staunch Trump supporter and “the only honest man in Britain” expat John Lydon, easy mistake to make...) and buggered off to NYC where he posed as a Greek.
TL;DR? = David Beuwie – not made for this world.
