3AM.co.uk/The Daily Mirror...What's the best way to become one of those "overnight youtube sensations" you read about in the papers? Well, you can do a stupid dance at your wedding to the music of a convicted girlfriend-beater, you can post a mental, teary rant about your favorite pop star, or you can just write a silly song on a topical celebrity matter. That's what Johnny Black has done in the hope of capturing the attention from the kind of people who mess around on youtube all day (i.e.. students, perverts and, well, us) - and it's pretty funny.
In his song The Queen Of Nowhere (The Ballad Of Katie Price), Johnny sings about the demise of Jordan and Peter's relationship - and choice lines include "He felt humiliated by things that she said, she put him on rations when they went to bed." So it should raise a slight laugh from anyone who likes tearing Jordan apart... what's that we hear? The sound of ten million people guffawing?
We think it's pretty sharp of Johnny to get this out there now, before either party can muster the required wit to come up with something similar, so maybe, just maybe, he's got a hit on his hands. Since all Jordan-related merchandise seems to do frighteningly well, all Johnny needs is a tacky pink cover and the evil princess herself might even endorse it... as long as she doesn't listen to the lyrics. Could we have an early contender for Christmas number one? Yeah, probably not, but it might make a few people chuckle. /The Coventry Evening Telegraph...An Unsigned musician has become an internet phenomenon with a series songs of poking fun at celebrity culture. Johnny Black has received over 55,000 “hits” on his Youtube page just eight weeks after uploading songs including The Ballad of Robbie Williams, The X-Factor Song and The Outlaw Gordon Brown. His debut song – called the Queen of Nowhere about Jordan and Peter Andre – was even featured on ITV’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 2. Black who is often described as a “punk-folk balladeer”, grew up the son of a coal miner on the notorious Camp Hill Estate in the North East of England.
This is where he says he formed his quirky, yet cynical take on life. “I started writing about it (celebrity culture) because England is obsessed with it. You can’t pick a newspaper up without reading about celebs and how the country is going to the dogs.” He draws on Heat magazine, the tabloid press and the Jeremy Kyle Show for his social commentary, but his previous jobs include working as a Bin man, a Silk Screen Printer and he claims to have been sacked from some of the finest establishments in the land including Harrods and The BBC.
After writing songs while living in Spain for five years he came back and wrote football songs for the Saturday morning radio show The Eamon Holmes’ Show on BBC Five Live “ Sadly they don’t pay,” he said. “I think all the budget went on Eamon's pies, so I knocked that on the head. But I thought I was doing something right so I moved from football to celebrity culture. “It’s pointless me trying to compete with these young musicians and writing love song because it wouldn’t see the light of day.”