Michael Parkinson

[searchlight]

Are parky's ads on telly in the papers and just about everywhere else for Sun Life Axa the most annoying ads ever?

[Jemisa]

i m o too tony. grrr!!

jem

[andy-hughes]

Yes, but you are talking Parkinson, a man who used to think that cutting-edge popular music was represented by Marion Montgomery!!!!

[tonyav]

Sorry andy I don't know very much about Jazz music, but I do know what I like to listen to, I have occasionally accidentally put his radio show on while driving and I couldn't change channel fast enough to any other radio show.

[joggerjayne]

Parky owns a pub up in Surrey somewhere. Can't remember the name, but whenever you go there he is there, bustling around, and chatting away. I think he's lovely. And for that, I can forgive him that dreadful advert.

[tonyav]

andy, just saw your mention of Marion Montgomery, Gawd she was bad I remember her from TV shows when I was a kid ( usually pretty late at night if I remember correctly ).

[EcclesCake]

JJ, the pub he co-owns with his son is The Royal Oak in Paley Street, Berkshire.

It's OK but a bit up it's own backside, staff can be very snooty and not very welcoming. It also has far to many pics of Parkie for my liking.

[andy-hughes]

Indeed tonyav - it will only be ABers of a certain vintage who will remember Ms Montgomery - she was about as dangerous and cutting edge as Westlife, but without the constant frisson of imiment riotous behaviour!

[Sipowicz]

It's funny how your perception of someone changes as you get older. When I was a teenager, I couldn't stand Matt Monro, now, I think he brilliant!

[tonyav]

LOL@ andy, what would the reason be for her to be on late at night on tv shows that hardly anyone watched ( even though there were only two channels ) do you think andy ?.

[HowardKennitby]

Not a great jazz fan myself. I just about remember MM on Parky's shows. Didn't he also have that very strange guy Jake Thackray on sometimes as well?

[sandyRoe]

You don't hear much about his wife, Mary, now. Is she well?

Didn't Thackery base his career on the comic songs of some Belgian?

[andy-hughes]

tonyav - I can only assume that Parky had considerable say in his 'musical' guests - so his derisible taste, which has only got worse, was, and still is allowed to run riot at the license-payers' expense!

Howard - in common with Sipowicz, I didn't comprehend Jake Thackeray at that time, but i do appreciate his music and lyrics now.

[Mosaic]

No. Those CSL sofa ads are.

[tonyav]

Blimy now theres a name from the past Jake Thakray, yes Howard he was pretty strange looking thinking back.

[uncle al]

Don't the foreign ads dubbed to English annoy you?
The Nicotin is bad (coming for a cigarette .. NAH (with not one syllable in sync)
As the Fabreze with the bloke sniffing the carpet.

[andy-hughes]

Speaking of Jake Thackray - here he is with a classic tale of love and families ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xod5YAw1_mI&feature=related

[jno]

they've just released the list of most-complained-about ads

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18243577

Singing with your mouth full, ugh!!!

[Traci66]

I sky+ anything I want to watch and then I can just ff through the ads ..... simples.

[tonyav]

Excellent andy, just how I remember him.

[HowardKennitby]

I had a quick scan of his entry on Wikipedia. It says he spent some time in France and became a fan of Jacques Brel. You can see elements of that style in his work now that were not obvious to me the first times I saw him many years ago. I have never got into Brel either.