It's a timeslip moment again!
Can two decades really pass so quickly? Twenty years ago today, this cheerful little ditty gave an out-gay band their first (and only) Number 1 in the UK...
Right Said Fred (led by brothers Richard and Fred Fairbrass) leapt into our collective conscience with the phenomenally camp I'm Too Sexy - which many people fondly remember as also being a chart-topper, but was in fact one of the many songs to flounder against the unstoppable force of Bryan Adams' (Everything I Do) I Do It for You [sixteen consecutive weeks at number one] in 1991 - and on the back of it, became massively successful across the world.
Of course, the "novelty band" bubble burst fairly rapidly after their first clutch of hits. But for lead singer Richard - the gay one - a television presenting career beckoned. He also, admirably, lent his fame to supporting the struggle for gay rights in Russia, and he and his brother were injured in scuffles with anti-gay neo-Nazis at a rights rally in Red Square in 2007.
Right Said Fred are still together and performing - mainly at those "nostalgia" concerts admittedly. I saw them live (they were awful) at G.A.Y. in 2002. However it seems highly unlikely they will ever again secure the massive success of their past...
Right Said Fred official website
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