50s swing German style at Eurovision 2007

Roger Cicero

Nick: *bzzzzzt* *crackle* *pht* Well, we’re sorry, we seem to be having some technical problems with my brain at the moment. Sound and vision are picking up what seems to be 50s New York swing sung in German, and obviously that can’t be what’s actually going on on stage. I mean, that would be insane. You’re going to *have* to explain this to me. Yeah, YOU, the person reading this now. Go on, explain it to me!

Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Deutschland (Germ...
Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Deutschland (Germany): Roger Cicero – Frauen regieren die Welt (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Phil: It’s all a bit – well – old-time lift lobby muzak at the Holiday Inn Central. It’s a style that time forgot, and hopefully Europe will too. He has a cracking voice, without a doubt, but I suspect that even thought the Eurovision thingy contest is not a broad enough church to welcome this into its stylee, Its just too disparate and wide of the mark for words and again I must stress that Roger Cicero has a great voice, for a lounge singer. The contest is many things – the Rotherham Grand Hotel, it is not…