HE will be fondly remembered by many as the man who recorded The Worst Pop Song of All Time. Yet Black Lace star Colin Gibb — who has died “unexpectedly” aged 70 — would much rather have been a serious rock star than release the 1984 novelty hit Agadoo. 5 Black Lace star Colin Gibb has died at 70, above with his trademark feather cut in band’s heyday Credit: Facebook 5 Gibb is most known for Black Lace's 1984 novelty hit Agadoo, Colin in Black Lace on Top Of The Pops in 1984 Credit: BBC But with his trademark bleached feather-cut hair and Hawaiian shirts — known as “wally wear” — he eventually embraced the wacky image to go with the infuriatingly catchy tune.
Instantly recognisable, he would be serenaded with Agadoo’s bizarre lyrics wherever he went. Those lines, while hardly Shakespearian, have been belted out across dancefloors on the Costas for generations: “Agadoo, doo, doo/Push pineapple, shake a tree “Agadoo, doo, doo/Push pineapple, grind coffee/To the left, to the right/Jump up and down and to the knees/Come and dance every night/Sing with hula melodies.” It may be nonsense, but the song has sold more than a million copies and was only kept off the No1 spot by George Michael’s debut solo hit Careless Whisper.
However, in 2003 a panel of music experts in Q magazine named it The Worst Song of All Time, labelling it “magnificently dreadful”. Lift engineer The panel added: “It sounded like the school disco you were forced to attend, your .