# Gilbert O'Sullivan! That's right... Gilbert O'Sullivan **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941 "2017-02-15T21:56:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/21 "2017-02-16T03:44:15Z")
He is playing the Bord Gais Energy Theater in Dublin tomorrow. It appears to be sold out. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/22 "2017-02-16T04:52:04Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Jerry Dorsey chose to be named Englebert Humperdink. I cannot hear that name without thinking of that rather eccentric Doper deeward. ETA: So I searched it and found that she was around FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! _Now_ whose the rather eccentric Doper who can’t let things go? ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/23 "2017-02-16T08:38:11Z")
When I was a teenager I was into Gilbert’s music as I’d grown up listening to it (my dad was a fan). I wrote to Gilbert and received a hand written response on posh paper with his own logo (some kind of whistling sun) at the top. Meant a lot to me at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/24 "2017-02-16T10:28:05Z")
‘Marry me Uncle Ray’ is a lyric from Claire so I gues people knew that already. He suffered with agoraphobia for years which stopped him toyring, but thankfully that’s no longer an issue. My favourite - [GILBERT O'SULLIVAN WE WILL Lyrics on screen HQ - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=novlANCqtis) ‘We Will’ I love the way the lyrics tumble into each other and that he says ‘I bagsy being in goal’! The chord sequence is fantastic to play - as are many of his songs - Nothing Rhymed is amazing - but this is the one for me. MiM Sorry about the crappy sound in the linked video, but the (almost correct) lyrics was what I was after. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/25 "2017-02-16T10:53:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I cannot hear that name without thinking of that rather eccentric Doper deeward. > > ETA: So I searched it and found that she was around FIFTEEN YEARS AGO! _Now_ whose the rather eccentric Doper who can’t let things go? Pft. I remember “degrees deeward”, a failed attempt to get people to describe obsession in terms of the poster who thought old Humperdinck was _so brave_ for going through childhood with that name. Yes, really. [Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2023674&postcount=58) ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/26 "2017-02-16T12:35:28Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > His name isn’t Gilbert. You get to choose a name for yourself, you’d think you could do better than ‘Gilbert’. I always thought it was a play on the composers Gilbert and Sullivan (or have I just been whooshed?). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/27 "2017-02-16T13:59:42Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Jerry Dorsey chose to be named Englebert Humperdink. He and Dorsey had the same manager, Gordon Mills, who also worked with Tom Jones. And gave them all their names. And yes, the stage name comes for Gilbert and Sullivan. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/28 "2017-02-16T15:56:13Z")
Some say a certain part of his anatomy has the flavor of inner-tube air, and he has the heart of a child… in a jar of formaldehyde. _All we know is he’s called Gilbert O. Sullivan!_ ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/29 "2017-02-17T12:30:55Z")
The OP wants to take this opportunity to provide a link to his favorite Gilbert O’sullivan song: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7fjEeVy4xCA/hqdefault.jpg "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Houdini Said") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fjEeVy4xCA) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941/30 "2017-02-17T18:08:10Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > He and Dorsey had the same manager, Gordon Mills, who also worked with Tom Jones. And gave them all their names. > > And yes, the stage name comes for Gilbert and Sullivan. Which prompts me to link the brilliant bit by comedian [Eddie Izzard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMU9wUHSapc) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gilbert-osullivan-thats-right-gilbert-osullivan/779941.md?page=1)