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My, what a big tongue you've got! Dave demonstrates an advanced technique (though not necessarily of the yoga variety). |
| The Beat had a string of hits in the '80s such as Hands Off, She's Mine, Mirror In The Bathroom and Too Nice To Talk Too. In America the group was known as The English Beat. Dave Wakeling still performs regularly and, from the look of recent photographs, he seems to have weathered the years remarkably well. Maybe the yoga paid off...? |
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Sweating Stars: Dave Wakeling
The (English) Beat vocalist features in a series of embarrassing photographs in which he demonstrates his prowess at the art of yoga

"These are my platinum discs, mine, all mine, I tell you!"
Here
Dave protects his record collection from intruders,

Twist and shout, I've heard of. But this is taking things to ridiculous lengths.
Here Dave seem to have his Y-Fronts (and just about everything else) in a twist...

Talk about bending over backward to please! I've heard of a flexible friend, but this is not quite what I had in mind.
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Dave Wakeling of The Beat was well ahead of the trend in celebrity yoga. On this page, you see some of the pictures I took of Dave going through a few of his yoga exercises. This was part of a series that I was commissioned to write and photograph for a girls' magazine in the early '80s.
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