"Amateur Hour" is a song by Sparks. It was released as the second single from the album Kimono My House. A rerecording was produced in 1997 for the retrospective Plagiarism album. This new version was given a complete electronic synthpop overhaul and was performed with Erasure.
On 25 June 2009 the song Amateur Hour was involved in an unusual stunt when UK mind reader Mark Cairns predicted that radio personality George Lamb would choose the Sparks song in a free choice from a list of 100 tracks that had been recently played on Lambs BBC 6 Music show.
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Famous quotes containing the words amateur and/or hour:
“I have been reporting club meetings for four years and I am tired of hearing reviews of the books I was brought up on. I am tired of amateur performances at occasions announced to be for purposes either of enjoyment or improvement. I am tired of suffering under the pretense of acquiring culture. I am tired of hearing the word “culture” used so wantonly. I am tired of essays that let no guilty author escape quotation.”
—Josephine Woodward, U.S. author. As quoted in Everyone Was Brave, ch. 3, by William L. O’Neill (1969)
“Well, then, never come again
since you found me out
the last time;
I can’t stay in hour after hour
and wait;
you were late.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)