A Career In 5 Clips: Susan Boyle
It’s hard to believe, perusing the timeline, that the Susan Boyle phenomenon only exploded a year-and-a-half ago. Since that April evening, when SuBo tottered on to Britain’s Got Talent, not knowing that she would soon be a global icon. As such her appearance on tonight’s Piers Morgan’s Life Stories should be the biggest love-in you’re likely to find outside of the Glastonbury Festival.
Admittedly, the Susan Boyle ‘journey’ has been a compelling one, from the moment her first audition wiped the grins off cynical faces which were left frozen in collective astonishment. They had discovered that looks have no bearing over singing ability. Their incredulity soon gave way to rapturous applause, setting a wave in motion that would carry SuBo, the girl from Blackburn (the one in Scotland) who has never been kissed, onto the crest of global fame. We present the five moments that defined her as the star she is today.
Seen here talking on the Larry King show, SuBo talks about her newfound fame and finds herself on the receiving end of that rarest of things – an apology from Piers Morgan.
Before SuBo launched into her legendary performance of ‘I Dreamed A Dream’, she confessed to having been inspired by the Queen of the West End, Elaine Paige. Well, SuBo finally had a dream come true when she got to perform a rendition of ‘I Know Him So Well’ with her favourite artist on ITV1.
Okay, the man in charge of preventinging Africa from fighting AIDS wasn’t actually in the audience, but as a lifelong Catholic, SuBo was thrilled to be a part of the celebrations surrounding the pope’s visit.
Performing the song that launched into millions of homes, SuBo was backed up by the cast of Les Miserables whilst she sang ‘I Dreamed A Dream’, probably the closest she’ll ever come to being in her favourite musical.
The photo shoot that helped changed SuBo’s image, these pictures showed the public a different side to the singer who had otherwise shunned attempts to ‘reinvent’ her.
Susan Boyle is an exquisite singer, who keeps getting better and better. Haven’t heard the whole of “The Gift” yet, but the clips that’ve been released are beautiful.
Interesting. Most journalists writing about Susan never know or post the whole story and just make up their own. For instance the one about singing for the Pope, kinda. The program was set up for her , among others, to entertain the crowd before the Pope’s arrival. Doing it “for the Pope ” and for her to sing the farewell song as he was leaving. A farewell for the Pope, which he certainly heard. Also a lot has been said about her not meeting the Pope, but pictures from the Vatican show her with the Pope and I understand that he thanked her for her great contribution. I think a lot of people were there to hear her than to see the Pope. I preferred to watch her on TV, which I did, without having to watch all the other stuff which didn’t interest me as a non-religious person.
Oh geez.
No thanks. I’ll be watching the Robert Plant documentary instead. Boyle might have a nice singing voice but to listen to the inarticulate babble of her talking voice alongside the even more irritating Pierce Morgan is too much for me. I’d rather take in the far more fascinating icon of music that is Robert Plant. He’s intelligent, articulate, humorous and who can beat tales of Led Zeppelin in their heyday? Susan Boyle? Get out of here.