The life of the non-musical plebeian is a humble one, but the world’s less boombastic denizens should take comfort from the fact that even the world’s highest fliers enjoy a little taste o’home. Take bass-rumbling Jamaican Shaggy, whose social circle extends to royalty – while chatting to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oh Carolina singer confessed to regular partying with Prince Albert of Monaco. The most recent of these monarchistic mash-ups was, we were not surprised to hear, a ‘very glamorous, upscale affair’. Also the recipient of the Order of Distinction from the Jamaican government, the upstanding reggae reveller was blown away to find himself dining with none other than feted soul belter Patti LaBelle. But it didn’t stop there. Oh no. In what the Gulf War veteran confessed was the ‘eyelight of the evenin’ (this isn’t arrogance – even he didn’t know it was going to happen) the singer found himself dueting with LaBelle on stage.
Such heights – but one suspects the following was the below-baritoner’s favourite moment. Back at the dinner table, LaBelle was said to have ‘broke out de ‘ot sauce out of her purse and hooked up my steak’. It was said she even had some cayenne peppers lurking in there.
News hour, with Jerry Caesar 