Jimmy Admits: I was a pop-quiz cheat

SIMON PIA

POLITICIANS, and others, should note that it is never too late to say sorry. Jimmy Devlin did so with great aplomb at the Forth awards bash at the Sheraton Grand in Edinburgh the other day.

Among the celebrity guests, apart from JD of course, were Wet Wet Wet, Darius and some spotty youths called McFly. However Dev's apologia was directed at Tony Hadley.

The former Spandau Ballet singer won the Best Performer gong for his concert at the Usher Hall earlier this year. Congratulating him, Dev recalled how he knew Tony at the height of his fame in the Eighties when he was a "record plugger" for EMI and looked after another of the biggest bands around, Duran Duran. The two supergroups were booked to go head-to-head on Mike Read's Christmas special Pop Quiz on BBC TV.

Simon Le Bon, Dev recalled, was "a lovely guy but thick as pigs***". Dev knew there was not a chance of Duran Duran winning, so he swiped a copy of the questions and answers from the BBC and rehearsed Duran Duran. Despite drilling into them the answers, they managed still to get a lot of them wrong, but somehow scraped through to win by one point. Dev picked up his Christmas bonus and the rest is history ...

Jimmy Devlin, now managing director of River Records, was not a thousand miles from the scene of the crime when Simple Minds were playing at Ibrox and Jim Kerr came up with the wizard wheeze to bury a set of rosary beads under the penalty spot at the Copeland Road end, which could explain a lot.

Source: http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1005&id=1324412004

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