A year ago today, Susan Boyle took to the stage in Glasgow...

[Captain Hilts]

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2010/01/21/hard-to-believe-but-true-one-year-ago-nobody-had-heard-of-susan-boyle-86908-21983825/

A YEAR ago today a 47-year old unemployed spinster walked on-stage at Glasgow's Clyde Auditorium and changed her life.
Susan Boyle has since become a worldwide singing sensation.

It was on January 21, 2009, that she auditioned for Britain's Got Talent, her bushy greying hair, unkempt eyebrows and gold dress making her a laughing stock with the audience and with judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden.

Until she started to sing. Since then SuBo has made the biggest-selling album of 2009, been namechecked on The Simpsons and her audition clip was watched by 120million people worldwide on YouTube.

...

[nuxvomica]

1. And I decided I would finally write my novel

I wonder how many other middle-aged people decided they would do something they'd been putting off after seeing that video.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Evidently, quite a few.

Fuck 'em, go for it.

[PassingFair]

3. She deserves every penny she makes. She has a beautiful voice.

I'm not going to watch the clip again because
honestly, I CRY every time I see it, and I'm
not up to it today...

I have seen LesMiserables TWICE, but I never
really listened to that song until I saw Susan
do it.

:cry: