This film has a strange history, one which begins in a place I can’t actually type. But let us just say, nobody, least of all me, expected it to become the cult classic it is now.
The Singing Richie: Life and Death, was a coverup for something else, which it taped over. I wrote an article of the same title for the paper I was publishing at the time, but otherwise The Singing Richie languished in obscurity. Then, for some reason, it came back.
Everyone hated it. They always did. Perhaps that’s why it spread so well – people love to hate something.
Presently, the Singing Richie’s song appeared on a compilation CD – which I cannot ever rerelease, since much of the material is copyright someone else – and then, in 2011, on a CD of all original material.
But that is a sidetrack.
Here, for the first time publicly available, is the original Singing Richie music video. Lyrics here.