And I say to myself you’re a fool, fool, fool…
Those of you feeling a little hard done-by having fallen for a Bowie-related April Fool prank this year, might just consider yourselves lucky by comparison to these pour souls who were taken in by the cruellest of pranks played by an evil Scot yesterday.
Here’s an edited version of a news story about the scam, written by Robert McAulay…
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HUNDREDS of David Bowie fans swamped a top Scots music venue after hearing the rock legend would be playing there. But the avid followers of the Thin White Duke were left looking silly after finding out the surprise gig was an April Fools prank.
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Staff were left having to cope with an endless stream of visitors wanting to snap-up the gold-dust tickets. But despite being embarrassed at being caught out, it seems the fans who fell for the trick saw the funny side of the prank.
Last night ABC box-office manager John McCue, 35, said: “We put a sign up outside the venue saying Bowie would be playing. But we also included the date to give people a big clue to what was really happening. However, even that didn?t seem to get picked up by a lot of people and pretty soon we were getting swamped with calls. There were people ringing in from all over Britain desperate to get their hands on a ticket. We even had people turning up at the door asking where they could buy tickets. It looks as though a lot of people were really fooled by the prank – it worked a treat.”
Fan Paul Woodside, 35, from Uddingston, Lanarkshire, said: “I got a call from a friend saying Bowie was playing at the ABC. I jumped in my car and sped up to the venue to see if I could get a ticket. It was only when the staff at the box-office stared laughing that I realised what had happened. I thought I was a bit too long in the tooth to fall for something like that, but it looks like there?s no fool like an old fool.”
The ABC hoax is the latest in a long line of April Fools day jokes that have left Bowie fans red-faced. One of the more famous ones being on his own website,
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Ouch, that’s a nasty one, eh folks? Personally, I think there’s no shame in believing what seem like perfectly feasible stories. (He said, neatly distancing himself from any naughtiness on these pages recently.)
Thanx to Doug ‘Experimental Hair’ Doig for the pointer.