'Handbags and Gladrags' is the theme tune of which comedy TV show?
Handbags and Gladrags of "Handbags and Gladrags". Following on from the "Mr. Writer" critical backlash, the song received a negative review from "Drowned in Sound" reviewer Anita Bhagwandas. Bhagwandas described it as the "final drop in the Stereophonics' inevitable descent into pop mediocrity" and criticised the group for "selling out." In 2000, a version of "Handbags and Gladrags" was specifically arranged by Big George as the theme song on the BBC series "The Office". Three versions were recorded: Both vocal versions feature the vocal performance of Waysted vocalist Fin Muir. In Series One, Episode Four, a version performed by Ricky Gervais (in character
Handbags and Gladrags Handbags and Gladrags "Handbags and Gladrags" is a song written in 1967 by Mike d'Abo, who was then the lead singer of Manfred Mann. D'Abo describes the song as "saying to a teenage girl that the way to happiness is not through being trendy. There are deeper values." The original demo tape of the original version of the song was discovered in 2004 in a closet belonging to Mo Foster. It was amongst a collection of studio recordings d'Abo had recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The collection, including the demo recording, was eventually released on the Angel