BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT
Britain’s Got Talent is a British television talent show reality TV competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent franchise. Anyone of any age with some sort of talent can audition for the show. The original judging panel consisted of the show’s creator Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan. Throughout the show, contestants must perform in front of the judges, and each year initial auditions have been held in front of a live audience. Britain’s Got Talent is the UK’s biggest television talent competition (ahead of The X Factor, also created by Cowell, and The Voice UK) and has also proven popular throughout Europe. (More from Wikipedia)
The lead single “Fast Car” was a Top 10 hit in both the U.S. and the U.K.; and Tracy Chapman won a clutch of Grammies in 1989 also. Remarkably, Michael Collings, a contestant on the television series Britain’s Got Talent performed the song in April 2011; and Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” re-entered the U.K. charts and attained the same #4 peak as it had in 1988.
(January 2014)
