The title could mean anyone and anything … she refers to Dan McCafferty of Nazareth … to Free fans of the 70s, it could have meant Paul Rodgers, to opera fans, take your pick. But for me, it was her … herself.

In Russia, one day in class, I said to the girls that there was a dilemma I had. I did not mean that. I meant that my job, officially, was to get rid of their accents, make them English … but which English? There was a lesson in that. But my dilemma was that their own accents were very soft on the English language, they enhanced it rather than strangulated it. I adored their accents.

So what was I to do? Their own linguistics teachers could do the phonetics, so could I, but why double up? Better I went into the language itself rather than the accents, obviously correcting when necessary. In Inna’s case (below), she concluded: “Think I gotta focus a little on the voice and pass out on anything else.” In a class, I’d then have to explain phrasal verbs and “pass out”. That was my workplace for a decade, loved my work, natch.

Anyway, quick look at the tube of U recommendeds and there was Inna … well, no choice really, plus live Nazareth. Now I could do without his chest but never mind … she was what I was there for … Ukrainian living in Italy. One thing about eastern European gals plus Sicilian was they always came in close, were effusive … and those accents!

Think she’d like this one too:

As for me though, this is more my style but at the same time, yikes, I’m divided … I’ve two versions here … the one here is the live version of the band on Austrian TV and it’s very good, the zany lads and their antics … this for our girls watching.

However, the one I’m running below is Stacey bopping away to the album version … think our boys might prefer I did not pass out over this version:

What I really like about this version is she’s a real female and can never stop talking, explaining … song finishes around 5/8 of the way through, she thinks, it’s not enough, so she talks the remaining 3/8. Very nice, esp. as she did not do that in the middle of the song. She’s a most respectful reactor. Some of the guys were like that too, not many of each.