The Sun, a British tabloid, doesn’t recognize the importance of the day except for the importance of the delivery of a pop “star” on this date in 2023: JET DIVE TERROR Chesney Hawkes caught in mid-air horror as flight plunges 20,000ft and passengers scream in terror
And Heaven help me, I know who Chesney Hawkes is. He sang a song I mocked endlessly in 1991.
Ah, those were the days of driving around all night with Chris and Deb, playing the radio and sometimes cassette tapes. Chris or Deb liked “The One and Only”, and I think one of them bought the cassette single. Also, WKTI probably had it in heavy rotation as they tended to play the hot hits, or at least selected songs, every hour.
Apparently, the song is from a British movie starring Hawkes (Buddy’s Song), the song–his first–was his high-water mark. Although he released three albums in the 1990s and several in the 21st century, he did not have much chart success worldwide and didn’t climb very high on the charts in Britain.
The article, after all, refers to him as the singer of “The One and Only” thirty-two years later.
Man, is my brain full of one-hit wonders from when I was nineteen, and I cannot tell the modern pop tarts apart at twenty.
