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Article: Culture: Turned out nice again; Alison Jones finds director Sir Ridley Scott is a fan of George Formby.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2003
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Byline: Alison Jones
When you are selecting the background music for a slick con movie, you might look for some laid-back jazz sounds. Perhaps the retro cool of the Rat Pack, or the criminally classy Bobby Darin.
The section you probably wouldn't head for is the one marked F for Formby. As in George.
And yet there he is on the soundtrack of Matchstick Men, sticking out like a turkey in a flamingo farm -the tombstone-toothed Northerner and his little ukelele singing Leaning on a Lamppost over a scene where Roy (Nicolas Cage) is waiting for his ...