From Vindaloo to AI hellscapes: the unofficial World Cup songs are coming

According to Keith Allen, lead singer of Fat Les, legendary bassist Guy Pratt made more money from just being the producer of ‘Vindaloo’, the unofficial England World Cup song for the 1998 tournament, than from playing with Pink Floyd. How cruel life is. When any one of four superb letters yesterday could have potentially won letter o’ the day it goes to a usual suspect … and it’s prizeless. A bit like Macclesfield nearly capturing all the headlines in this year’s FA Cup, only to be outdone b...

By Michael Butler