Source ::: BELFAST Telegraph.
Who put the naughty four-letter word into Smokie's hit Living Next Door To Alice back in 1994? "It was an Irish comic and I'd love to know his name," says showband original Terry Uttley, who is bringing Smokie back to Belfast at the Waterfront on October 23.
But after years of searching, Terry is as mystified as ever about the name of the man who added the expletive.
Terry (63) says that back in 1994, as Chubby Brown was having a runaway success with the swear-word version of Alice, more than 2,000 enthusiastic volunteers got in touch to claim the credit for adding that blankety-blank word to the song.
"I'd love the real culprit to turn up at the Waterfront," he says. "Our agent all those years ago told us that this comic in Ireland was demanding to know who the real Alice was in his patter and using the four-letter word to emphasise his question.
"It was only when we realised the joke was catching on that we decided to record the fun version of the song. Contrary to popular notion, it was us who invited Chubby Brown to cut the track of Living Next Door To Alice Mark Two, not the other way round."