Little Known Fact ~ Seona Dancing

So, if you haven’t watched the original BBC version of The Office, you should. It’s the inspiration for the American version, and far superior. The creator/writer of the BBC show is Ricky Gervais, whose new show Extras, which is equally as funny, is now on HBO.

Gervais’ self deprecating and painfully awkward humor are the calling cards of these comedies. In the best episode of The Office Gervais, who plays the manager of a paper producing company, relives what he perceived to be his rock n’ roll days with an acoustic guitar in the office meeting room. The hilarity lies in how awful and contrived his songs are.

However, little did I, or most people, know: Gervais did in fact make a genuine effort at a music career in the early 80’s. Seona Dancing was a ‘romantic pop’ duo featuring Gervais and Bill Macrae. They never cracked the top 70 in the UK or US, but had a smash hit, “More to Lose” in the Philippine Islands (I’m not making this up).

Here’s Gervais cerca now vs. the 1980’s.





Here's a link to where I found Seona Dancing, if you care


And here the lyrics to their one smash single:
P.S, I'm working on a link to the audio file. Enjoy




More to Lose

We used to cry
About the day when one of us might fall
Weak and blindly into another's arms
Demands are gained from jealousies
Would flow like water drowning us
But leaving us with just another
Lover's false alarm
And now it's over
Both of us free
But I feel colder
A thousand tortured lives have fallen
Wounded dying cut down by the
Questions that we've sharpened
Just to save our losing days
We thought we'd nothing more to lose
We'd tear our hearts with jagged truths
And everything we'd hung to for so long
Just slipped away
And now it's over
Both of us free
And I feel colder
I was tired of thinking that
Our love can shine your thoughts
Of our arrangements
Were really not like mine
I thought it over
And it was plain to see the love you said
You once needed
Could just not come from me
And now it's over
Both of us free
And I feel colder
And now we're moving to new beginnings
But as we move we looked once behind
To see what we might find out
Lost loves and old thoughts of our nights of winnings
That lunge, tear and grasp
at lost wanting minds