Patrick Macnee that is! The gentleman of gentlemen turned 88 last week and it occurred to me that his connection with music, slight as it may be, should be celebrated along with the man. Huzzah!
Mr. Macnee is perhaps best known for his role as Mr. John Steed in the 1960s television programme 'The Avengers'. As part of that programme, he and Honor Blackman, who also appeared on the programme at that time, recorded a rather... strange song. Thankfully someone was clever enough to match it up to some footage from 'The Avengers' to create a video!
As I enjoy the theme music to the show, I have to include it as well.
Make you want a proper umbrella just to be able to slug people with it!
Patrick Macnee would go onto all sorts of other great roles, he's in 'The Howling', he's been Dr. Watson to Christopher Lee's Sherlock Holmes, he's in 'A View to a Kill', he's in 'This is Spinal Tap', he's even the voice of the evil Imperious Leader of the Cylons in the original 1970's version of 'Battlestar Galactica' for goodness sake! But he can't escape Steed and I don't think that bothers him too much. If it did, would he appear in music videos as the character?
Okay, so he appeared in clips in the Pretenders video. It's still Steed!
To Patrick Macnee, may you live a long healthy existence yet. Hurrah!
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